http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/09/the-friday-night-line-doy-nominations-are-open Comments On: The Friday night line: DOY nominations are open by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:36:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:38:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Conservative Arkansan]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:46:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM AND FILIBUSTERS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

http://www.petition2congress.com/8196/repu…
Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:13:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
"A key pillar of American civil rights law is now in danger of being nullified by the Supreme Court.

Shelby County, Alabama, is seeking to have Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the law that first guaranteed the right of blacks in the South to vote, declared unconstitutional. Section 5 forces areas of the country with a history of discrimination—mostly, but not entirely in the South—to ask the Department of Justice for its approval before making any changes to election rules. The DOJ is then supposed to ensure any changes protect Americans' voting rights. The law has a provision allowing jurisdictions to "bail out," but conservatives have repeatedly challeged the law as unconstitutional federal overreach that is no longer necessary because America has transcended its history of racial discrimination. The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would take up the case.

The last time conservatives challenged Section 5, in 2009, the Supreme Court handed down a very narrow 8-1 ruling (Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter) that did not declare the law unconstitutional. .....

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/su…
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:24:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Alabama and Mississippi scored eight times more racist tweets than the national average"

Remind us again it's all about his "policies," not his race.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:17:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://onlineathens.com/election/2012-11-0…

If you recall, Broun claimed during a campaign stop that evolution, embryology, and stem-cell research are from the pits of hell.
Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:54:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Paul Covert]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:53:18 -0600 Arkansas Times

This is why the Republican Party has become the party of angry old white people. It is also why
they represent a dying viewpoint--and one that we should be glad the country is getting rid of.
Already, the Republicans are talking finally about immigration reform, after our President got something like 80 per cent of the non-Cuban Hispanic vote. An Hispanic candidate for the Rogers City Council made history by getting into a runoff with the 28-year incumbent.

As Bob Dylan said: "The times, they are a changing." It is going to be an exciting time. I hope I live long enough to see it play out.
Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:44:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Bear]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:42:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
I believe the Republican National Convention made that clear when they where throwing around "We Built That" all week long.
Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:23:23 -0600 Arkansas Times
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Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:19:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Artificial Inteligence]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:11:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:07:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
The question now is raising taxes on the 250,000+ income earners and maintaining the tax cuts for the middle class and the poor.

As Krugman said in his column today and linked earlier by me, this is not a fiscal cliff.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/opinion/…
Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:26:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
"BOMBSHELL: New Study Destroys Theory That Tax Cuts Spur Growth
Henry Blodget | Sep. 21, 2012

http://www.businessinsider.com/study-tax-c…

Here it is from the Wall Street Journal:

Diamond and Saez: High Tax Rates Won't Slow Growth
We're not close to the top of the Laffer Curve. Raising tax rates is part of a sensible deficit reduction strategy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405…
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:18:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
Right on target Ron. Plus, there was a big economic factor of the dot.com and computer bubble. Clinton didn't start two wars, keep them "off-budget" and on the national credit card. When Obama put Bush's Two Wars back into the federal budget it didn't look so good.

"Off Budget" is another of the fantasy excuses and another example of why you never want Republicans in charge of a national economy.

That's something Saline Republican will NEVER address, Bush's Two Wars and keeping them "off budget," like we live in a make-believe economy.

"What we learned under Reagan is that deficits don't matter."
--VP Dick Cheney, 2003
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:09:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Hmm. I think so. Proof that the solution is multi fold. Increase revenue, sensible gradual reductions and weeding out fraud, waste and abuse.
Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:00:51 -0600 Arkansas Times >Anyway, now that the Hillcrest liberals and their union buddies have succeeded in giving our Senate seat to John Boozman...< posted by stylus.

Been at politicking long stylus? Apparently not. It's called crossover voting. It's done to help select a candidate the challenging party wishes to oppose. In 2010 Boozman and company wanted to run against Blanche because she supported "Obamacare."
So, Republican primary voters suddenly became Demo primary voters, en masse, and scurried to primary polls to select Blanche over Bill Halter because they had a sneaky idea Halter could have given Boozman a run for his money, if not a whooping.

Check the voting history stylus. You will find more people voted in the Demo Primary held between three candidates than in the entire Republican primary which featured 8 US Senate candidates, all big names in Ark-Repub politics. Then the reverse happened in the general election. Repubs went home, en masse to support Boozman.

Crossover voting was done in Missouri Senate race in the recent election. Demos teamed up to promote Repub Akin's candidacy in the Missouri primary because that's who they wanted Sen Claire MacKasill(D) to run against. It worked, she won.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:41:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sellercreek]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:38:15 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/1…
Posted by zebedee duda]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:32:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Paul Covert]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:25:50 -0600 Arkansas Times http://thedailyhatch.org/2012/11/09/letter…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:25:31 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Paul Covert]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:21:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by stylus]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:16:34 -0600 Arkansas Times