Arkansas Blog

The Benton County Farm Bureau had a candidate’s forum last night. Damnedest thing.

Thanks to Eschaton, with whom we agree:
Listen to the song. Buy the CD.

Washington Post: Nearly eight months after Hurricane Katrina triggered the nation’s largest housing crisis since the Second World War, a hastily improvised $10 billion effort by the federal government has produced vast sums of waste and misspent funds, an array of government audits and outside analysts have concluded.

Krugman today in NYT: Now it can be told: President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney based their re-election campaign on lies, damned lies and statistics.

Democrat Mike Hathorn isn’t smiling at the moment. He says opponent Bill Halter has gone negative on him.

The departure of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from the Pentagon has been predicted many times before.

Has AT&T secretly been helping the feds monitor Internet traffic (including phone customers in Ark.?)

SI.com columnist Tim Layden today touts the Arkansas Derby as the kingmaker race: In each of the last two years, the path to the Kentucky Derby has gone straight through Hot Springs, boyhood home of Bill Clinton (signs around town trumpet this fact).

Democratic attorney general candidate Robert Herzfeld, currently the Saline County prosecuting attorney, today unveiled his comprehensive drug proposal that includes the creation of an anti-drug planning council, additional measures to combat methamphetamine dealers and users, expanding drug courts and educating citizens about the dangers of crack cocaine and prescription drug abuse.

Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack’s political action committee, Heartland PAC, several weeks ago challenged Democrats to define their party’s message in ten words or less.