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Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 21:27:51
Let's eat
New food porn on Eat Arkansas. I forgot to mention -- ice cold Moretti beer in frozen mugs, on draft, and rosso di montalcino by the glass at absurdly fair markups. They make the helter-skelter service situation more than bearable.
Oh, forgot to say this is from Za Za, the new salad and wood oven pizza restaurant in the Heights.
Back to you
I may check in. But maybe not.
For the record: It looks like some delegates from Michigan and Florida will be seated at the Democratic National Convention, despite months of media and others' declarations that this would not happen.
UPDATE: Michigan and Florida will be seated, but each pledged delegate will get only half a vote. The delegation will be split in Florida according to the vote. In Michigan, Clinton's delegates were reduced, prompting a vow from Harold Ickes for a credentials challenge at the convention. This ups the number of delegates needed for a nominating majority. Obama will not likely reach it through the end of the primary season Tuesday. The super delegates will, finally, decide the outcome, but Obama will need so few that his win is all but certain. Only 15 or 20 announcements in his favor next week out of some 200 remaining uncommitted super delegates probably will do it.
Final thought: Think how much of the campaign was shaped and commentary influenced by the repeated assertions from Obama and his supporters that Florida and Michigan would not and should not participate in the selection process.
It was a good day for Obama's resignation from his church, which had raucously cheered the priest who followed up the former pastor's act last week with an incendiary sexist and racially tinged performance. The big rules decision will provide cover for more embarrassment for Obama on account of his church. I have a feeling the Republican clip file is growing all the same.
PPS -- Most useful remarks today were by Sen. Carl Levin, who reminded the rules committee that New Hampshire wasn't punished when it leapfrogged its primary so no interim votes would be held, as had been intended, between its primary and the Iowa caucus. I'm with Levin. It makes no sense for Iowa and New Hampshire to always go first. The party should change the process (and encourage a departure from caucuses altogether in favor of something more democratic.)
Mike Beebe's parsing
Another good weekly column by Andrew DeMillo, this one on Gov. Mike Beebe's triangulation of the hot-button question (for some hotheads anyway) of giving in-state tuition to Arkansas high school graduates and residents who might lack a Social Security number. Beebe casts it all as an argument over legal technicalities. DeMillo recalls how the previous governor, Mike Huckabee, in one of the shining moments of his tenure, cast it as a moral question. (He had to triangulate a bit himself in the presidential campaign, of course.)Bush moves to cement 'legacy'
Check it out. Another finagle by the Bush administration, an early deadline for rules changes that will make it harder for the next administration to disturb rules Bush has put in place. At least it suggests he DOES plan to leave office. Unless, I guess, Cheney tells him to do otherwise.Whither the farm vote
Come November, Brummett writes, the East Arkansas farm vote will ponder change (Obama) versus fear (McCain) and, given race and culture, Obama faces an uphill climb. Hillary Clinton, not likely to be the nominee, would easily carry the farm vote, white rural voters and the state, he mentions. This, again, is the factor that super delegates are fairly being asked to consider before making their choice, though many have already accepted the months-long media chorus that they are not entitled to make that choice.Friday, May 30, 2008 - 18:50:07
Take it away
You're up.The sweet spell of success
Samia Nawaz, a student at Little Rock's Anthony School, has reached the finals of the National Spelling Bee. Check out Rock Candy for video and more. Finals are on TV tonight.
The bee will be on ABC at 7 p.m.
Her last winning word: pyrrhotism. Rock Candy is particularly well-qualified to define.
UPDATE: She made it to the final 10, but was eliminated.
Supreme Court lauded
Hot story UPDATE
End of an error
The gender issue
Huckabee: fire from the right
Alien immersion
Belatedly ...
Mormon children sent home
Coalition building
For sale: Fayetteville High UPDATE
Correction: E.T. kicks off Movies in the Park next week
Those darn computers
LRSD wins
Following the dots
Lottery spin
NLR wheeling and dealing
An inconvenient truth
Heavyweight bout in Faulkner County
The liquor cartel UPDATE
Sure, We Charge You More . . .
Extinguish all smoking materials
Open line
The day of the long knives
Shopping patterns
Fox 16 nabs bride interview
Kids' health care lacking
Lottery backers
Half a loaf
A man of few words
Tim Griffin watch
Another Bush aide turns
Change is gonna come ...
Capitol real estate
Society gossip
Locks of Love
Coulda, woulda, shoulda
Wedding bell blues UPDATE
Hamburger tax blues
Immigrant watch
Define sexism
Stolen elections
VIP viewing
Memorial Day, LA-style
Huck: Different rules and 'I would have won'
Dogtown likes dollars, not homeless
Today's assignment
To unite the Democrats
Happily never after - UPDATE
Riverfest finale
Tribute to Teddy
Flex-time to cushion gas prices
Open line
Memorial Day observances
Electing judges
Maynard G. Krebs special UPDATE
Tax dollars at work
Kansas City, Mexico
Why Hillary still runs
Miranda Lambert at Riverfest
Late but ...
Voting machine blues
Saturday, in the park
At the pump
Quotable
The 'new' Democratic Party
Huey Lewis at Riverfest
Political realignment in NWA?
Good for Elliott
Opening day: Riverfest
Want to talk?
Talking heads -- elections
Pitiful turnout
Conway recount UPDATE
Lightning death
McCain's pastor II UPDATE
Is the end in sight?
Don't pee off your porch in Prairie Grove
Ask the Blog
Screw the homeless UPDATE
The third Clinton
Immigrant watch UPDATE
Clickit
Huck regrets McCain invite
Rejection time for Hitler
Equal time for the senator
Punishing the kids
Republicans appoint
Polygamists win
Welcome to the blog family
Walton Arts Center moving?
Political satire
Bifurcated primaries
Tim Griffin redux UPDATE
The better candidate
What McFadden's worth
Most expensive ever
'Huck shoots own foot'
Vetting the veeps
Bag man
Bermuda: small world
On second thought ...
The unfriendly skies
Walton Charter School Inc. acquisition
Fightin' side of me UPDATE
A new GOP?
A win for clean water
Free Riverfest parking
Election cleanup
The gas crunch
Pulaski vote is in
Election watch
Madison, Addison, Bo-baddison
Election update
D-G publication launch
Teddy Kennedy diagnosis
Hollywood in the ArkLaTex
Same old, same old
The public's business
Mighty white of them
Kansas City going Mexican?
It is no joke
Drive time signage
Bobo Rockefeller
An example for youth
Flex-time for state employees?
Election day
Take that, Bobye
Information super highway
Whatever happened to ...
There he goes again
Out of order
Central High: two-timer UPDATE
Wherever two or three shall gather
Armed robbery, shots fired
The myth of vote fraud
Purity balls
McCain wins
Huck: Still 'splainin' UPDATE
Staying in the public sector
Shopping center site
Obama: Geography lesson needed
Marching as to war
Policing immigration
Cyber squatting
The animal cruelty lobby
Open line
A bridge to Argenta
Piling on Huck
Hillcrest alert
Obama's ploy
Take that, Brummett
Comic genius: Assassination humor
Judicial investigation
William Randolph Hussman
Airport blowout
Lights, camera, etc.
So you want to be an astronaut?
Obama to Bush, McCain
Student-teacher sex challenge
Water for gas
Benton County bank bust
Just say no
Epitaph for Dixie?
Gay marriage: A political wedge?
Judicial candidate hypes record
Almost heaven
McCain:Bush dittohead
Judgment in Little Rock
Lottery bankroll
Another ruling for same-sex marriage
Bushs***
The Arkansas nightmare
Roy Brooks' buyout
The choice lobby divided
Not on Countrywide's side UPDATE
Oh, woe is us
Disorder in the court race
Animal cruelty UPDATE
Cell phone bills
Help for the polar bears
Edwards to endorse Obama
On-line access
Huckablog and the GOP 'brand'
Where does the buck stop?
Cruelty to kids
Alamo up north
Shooter's testimony delayed
Fun with numbers
Obama stoops to conquer
Signal Democratic victory?
Full of baloney
House candidates debate
Judicial race goes to pot
Election watch
Seem hot to you?
Newspaper war story
Bowen gift to UALR
Library continues to discuss cuts
Lottery signature jackpot
Country-fried prejudice UPDATE
For Joyce Elliott UPDATE
Farm politics
Open records at LRSD
Huckabee's cross UPDATE
Hot race for courthouse
John Prine wrote a song about this
Who you callin' partisan?
Huckaveep UPDATE
The Bush wedding
Arkansas first?
Halter family growing UPDATE
Mayor Hays' RV lot
Fun with numbers
The next voter suppression trick
Pondering the 'dream ticket'
Carrie Underwood at Alltel
Huckabee: Problem or solution for McCain
M is for the memories
'Sexism on parade'
And furthermore re Petrino ...
Great minds -- football
Term limits are for suckers
About that early primary
Regrets, he'll have a few
What it says
Legislative crossovers
Debate this, punk
Roundtable on 'Iron Man'
The primary numbers game UPDATE
Dirty pool
Tracking the DINOs
Open mic
Bank fails in NWA
Cops: pay us to 'gear up'
The presidential primary
The fight for clean air
Leslie is back
Drug courts get an audit
The case for blogs
Politics in the pulpit
The Duggars do Mother's Day UPDATE
A last-gasp scenario
If you can't believe Josh Lyman ... UPDATE
Open line
The glories of privatization
MLK Commission slapped on wrist
The Donald
Perry County road kill
Library to sue; cuts coming
Fayetteville: Back to the drawing board
Deaths in the LR family
Family values candidate
Jonesboro confidential
Independents make ballot
Happy Mother's Day
Huck: The post-campaign life
The race for president
Shale impact inflated
Beebe: Me, too
Dogtown doings
It's not over til ...
Whitbeck plea bargain
'Drug war outrage'
The world wants to know ...
'Hi, I'm Frank White'
Ballot title approved
Effective punishment
Should Hillary continue?
Late developments in Indiana...
Split decision?
Injudicious
Hendrix to hit gridiron
Styling
Do state employees need a pay raise?
When the Justice Dept. is corrupt ...
Movies in the Park
Tax holiday mania UPDATE
McCain didn't vote for Bush in 2000
Steve Clark revisited
The good, the bad, the Blog
ACORN picks
Why Obama will win
Go, Rebels UPDATE
Silent is Golden Bear UPDATE
Telephone TV
Project Vote Uninformed
Walking over water
Marriage pioneer dies
Stadium sculpture
Polls schmolls
Judgment day
Who you calling a fighter?
Wal-Mart pitches in
For your health
Spring open line
Mississippi Mike
McCain's pastor and the race card
How Hillary can win
Deja vu all over again
Bayou state news -- UPDATE
Saturday night sorrow UPDATE
Is McCain a p****?
Ballparking
When guns are outlawed, etc.
American dream
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Unrepentant
OK, OK
Case dismissed
Mike Huckabee v. Ethics Commission UPDATES
Stormy weather -- seven dead
Not enough debates at library
All-Stars squared
A golden oldie
Count the chairs
Memorial statuary
State money watch
'For the record'
New flights to Cleveland
Candidate's wife dies
Correction
Duh
What it is
Biker friendly
Reagan Democrats?
Weather matters
Executions to resume in Ark.
Most unpopular in American history
Keep those machines jingling
Independents file
The governor's budget
The state of LR
UALR Law
The Donald
800 jobs gone
Speaking of the Travs
The lone parking man theory
Evolution revolution
Real issues on display
Pryor sides with unions
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