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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 19:40:41

Crime alert

This is going to shock you. The federal government has discovered that masonry workers on a building project at LR National Airport have been found to be working in the U.S. without proper papers. This link doesn't tell you, but I can, that this building project is for a new private aircraft operation put in motion by Stephens' interests at LR National. So before you get mad at Dick Holbert for firing a waitress who waved a Hillary Clinton sign, ....

No s***, Sherlock

The "Mission Accomplished" banner (five years ago) was a bad idea, numnutz now admits.

Another setback for immigrant bashers

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has again rejected the form of a proposed intiated act to prohibit certain public benefits for people not in the country legally. Among other criticisms, McDaniel said the ballot title was too long and complicated.

Read the opinion here.

The Fed moves again

From Arkansas Business: another Federal reserve interest rate cut -- quarter point.

Bill Halter to the rescue

Read all about it.

The 39th in Iraq

NPR visits with Arkansas's redeployed 39th Infantry Brigade in Iraq. It brings home some of the darker side of heroic sacrifices. Staff Sgt. Kevin Kimmey is quoted:

"I can't say the war is right or wrong, but I can say I've never seen some people needed killing more than some of the people over here," he says. "And when I say that, I mean it in the most sincere way I can. ... I've seen true evil over here. And, yeah, maybe we made a mistake coming over here, but we're here and we need to finish."

Kimmey's commander, Capt. Ronnie Denton, tried to soften those remarks, and Kimmey apparently was reprimanded later.

Denton says the personal cost of the repeated deployments has been high.

"I don't have a house anymore. ... You're just more or less a Guard bum," he says. "You try to find National Guard jobs. Because every time I get a job, trying to coach basketball or something else, the National Guard just pulls you in to go somewhere or do this for so long."

"We're all divorced, too," Kimmey says. When someone counters that not everyone is divorced, Kimmey adds, "Pretty much," sparking laughter.

But as the veterans will tell you, it's really no laughing matter.

Play hooky

It's your solemn duty. The Travs are playing at Dickey-Stephens Park. The sun is shining. The temp is lovely. There's a steady breeze. The stands are full of kids, judging by my view from the Main Street Bridge as I walked back from lunch in lovely Argenta.

PS -- Game started at 11 a.m. so time is running out. But find an excuse anyway. It's a glorious day.

Those economic stimulus checks

He must not be running for president

The facts on Lake Maumelle

VIP parking

Huckabee in Montana

ID, please

Extinguish all smoking materials UPDATE

Das Bridge UPDATE

'Enormous snafu'

Obama caves UPDATE

Easy come, easy go

Quote of the day

McCain watch

Irony of the day: 374-FREE

100 years in Iraq

Score one for Obama

The Rev. Wright

Who's a conservative?

The Buzz: Since you asked

Waitressgate, Part II UPDATE

Miracle diet!!

Prosecutor speaks in Janie Ward case

Loose lips sink campaigns

The Bush court

The judge speaks

Special airport privileges

More good news

El Dorado goes to college

Exotic travel

Obama as Jesse Jackson

Sing, sing, sing

It's not over until it's over

Speaking of media narratives

Cliffs Notes news

How dumb are Ark. Democrats?

Late-night mailbag

Free speech

A lonely dissent -- YES! MORE UPDATES

Jock watch

D is for deadbeat

D-Mac is D-Millionaire

Let freedom ring

Grassroots sampling UPDATE

Straight Talk at Arkansas Baptist

LR goes green

Who's a bully?

Ethical treatment favored

Outlook: Not sunny

McCain watch

Unconventional wisdom

LRSD conversations

Philadelphia story

Huckabee's press notices

That Fayetteville high school

What's wrong with Obama?

Darren McFadden's riches

More than meets the eye UPDATE

Walker's FOI -- UPDATE

Huckabee's pep rally

Malvern mystery UPDATE

Senator battles kidney infection

Courthouse buzz

The money race

Day of Silence

Wolves want Hogs

The race card

No endorsement for Steve Clark

High gas prices?

A day for candlelight?

Care to comment?

Huckstering

McCain's day

Brainiacs

Quote of the day

Former home team helps Hillary

Protecting Lake Maumelle

Building Wal-Mart's PAC

Crime stopper

The popular vote UPDATE

McFadden's straight talk

And the winner is ...

Anti-lottery rally

Now THAT is a reward

The 'dream ticket'

Arkansas's Air Force One

Church dispute

The New WSJ?

What are they smoking?

Dillard's details

Pressure for the bridge

Kurrus responds

Charter schools that work

A future network star?

Youth is served

What happens in Las Vegas ...

Question for McCain

A star passes

Planning to vote?

McDonnell retiring at U

Sex in the city -- not much

Analyze this

Guard changes

Coffee or orange juice

Lawsuit planned in bridge accident UPDATE

Back to you

The selling of the war

Gas boomtown: Part II

Free speech and the judge

The blundering media

News you can use: Strawberries!

Turnabout is fair play

No excuses

Don't cry for Obama

The Real McCoy, er, Cain

Cheney's Toy

McCain's money search

Primary hyperbole

Do we need an open line?

Dillard's/CDI/Glasgow etc.

Sen. Crumbly wins vote

Legislative grifters

Separate but equal proms

The Huckster's patrons -- UPDATE

Beebe rips feds

Straight talk express

The city attorney responds

High-speed rail

'Zac, I love you'

John Walker's questions

Political courage test

WR remembered

Tis the election season

Airing marital laundry

School daze -- NWA-style

Lyon College prez retiring

Can an interview with AT be next?

Meth arrests UPDATE

Stick it to them

Good point

All-star slacking

Worst. President. Ever.

Hendrix lives! -- UPDATE

Also on the petition front

Winger watch

Dirty Dozen Dems

Who's an elitist?

Chicken plant flu

A partisan judicial race

Steve Clark for mayor?

Senator jumps into hot water

Worst. President. Ever.

Conflict emerges on school search

La. goes after cell phones

Hot after the Hillcrest burglars -- UPDATE II

Juice 'em

Votes for sale -- UPDATE

Hook 'em Hogs

Raiders of the Hispanic Ark.

Speeding LR school construction

Good grade on school spending

Campaign account boodling

The Huck PAC

Medical records ARE private

The gas boom

Anti-anorexia

West Memphis Three case

Sharp decision

Armey times

Volunteer brainchild

Well-earned time off

The Huckapac UPDATE

Ramping up gun control

Obama's 'scream'

Speaking of the presidential primary

Dennis the Menace

Wes

'They're coming to your town'

Responsible gun sales

WM3 and DNA

Sullivan lecture cancelled

The D.C. prostitution case

A message from the Green Party

Real journalism

Lottery: too much of a good thing?

Evensong

Two punks

'Bitter-gate'

High on Hog coaches

College loan money dries up

Playing the "ponies"

Your turn

Gubernatorial tag team

Bitter

'The seventh ring of hell'

State budget magic

Let it out

Architect dies

What the Bushes paid

Machine break-down

Tax reprieve for disaster victims

30,000 tunes? It is to laugh

How low can IT go?

Free trees

We interrupt regular programming ...

How low can he go?

He's back -- time to pledge!

New federal judge

Defining 'landmark' down UPDATE

Time for him to go

Aldersgate celebration

What's the matter with these women?

Town evacuted

New bishop

Big Wind, round two

KUAR pledge time!

Flying anytime soon?

That's show biz

Just wants to help

Kk-kk-kk-kk-katie

Your morning Huck UPDATE

Let 'em run

Immigration initiative rejected

No regrets

Smile, you're on camera

No service

Exodus

Hillcrest crime

That's what we'd like to know

Bush to people: Hell with you

Decision on immigration initiative today

We've had it

Death rattle or stall?

Nonsense

Big Tobacco at the Clinton School: UPDATE

Cheney shield

Home sales down

Big Mac to the Bay?

No habla Espaņol

New idea for museum

Lest WE forget: UPDATE

Pants on fire . . .

It ain't me, babe . . .

And now Pennsylvania

It's open

Fired, but not.

Pullet surprise

New job for Hatfield

The 18 percenter

It's called philanthropy

Depends on whose distortion is Gored

Judgment at Nuremberg

How the West is being supported

Hucking around

Pffffffffft!

Games of skill

Injudicious talk

Clinton strategist quits

When eLwood speaks

Susan and Tony, sordid and phony

The modern Eva Braun blabbers

Mike Beebe's legacy

The happy - but misinformed - warrior

PoP goes the ALF

Beebe-Adams

New ballot initiative targets immigrants

Creationist chronicles

The Clintons' taxes

Your turn

A change of pace

State revenues up

Plane explodes

More storm pix

Shock of the new museum

For the record

Storm photos

Are we sheep?

Tall tales

Zoo closed

Storms

A mess -UPDATED

The severance tax aftermath

King vigil

Bobbitt says bye-bye

Flying the hostile skies . . .

Annals of abuse of power

Going home

You decide, part 2

Bullied, or Bully?

Glib digs

Shackleford Crossing Superstore on track?

You decide

Charismatics remorse

Bad to the bone

One body recovered

Now the line is open

Oxford American Update

DEVELOPING: Workers Fall From I-430 Bridge

Severance tax a done deal.

Who's in charge here?

Bro. Huckabee fix

It could happen here

Good morning, people

Some sort of change at Dillard's

M.D.s say yes to national health insurance

Memories of home

Re-Gonzalesed

Ssssssssee this

Blessings from downunder

Possible drowning

Green day

Meanwhile ...

Smelling greasepaint

BFI settles in sex discrimination suit

The gas vote

Distaff opinion

The 'Clinton' brand

Sherwood boy genius

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