Nothing ruins a nice Easter weekend worse than an oil spill and a deadly accident at a nuclear power plant. Just ask the people of Arkansas. That's how they spent their holiday.
On Wednesday afternoon, despite Governor Mike Beebe's best intentions, the Arkansas House and Senate passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country — indeed, perhaps the greatest legal challenge to Roe v. Wade in its 40 years of existence. But abortion rights groups were waiting right outside the Capitol in Little Rock, ready with promises of an instant lawsuit.
Arkansas immediately joined seven other states where performing abortions after 20 weeks, if the pregnancy does not otherwise threaten the life of the mother, is banned. Now the state legislature wants to ban abortion past 12 weeks.
Alex Collins was all but a signature and a fax away from committing to play at Arkansas — until his mom stole his paper work and went on the lam on National Signing Day.
An old-fashioned Arkansas political sex scandal has inadvertently given a boost to the gun lobby's most important emissary.
An autopsy report out on Monday calling an Arkansas man's gunshot death while in police custody a suicide, is so unlikely, it's no surprise many people don't believe it.
Why did two in five Democratic voters in Kentucky and Arkansas vote against President Obama in their states' primaries on Tuesday? Different theories have been floated. But one factor that can't be ignored is race.
President Obama easily won the Kentucky Democratic Primary last night, but the vote was much closer than it should have been considering he was running unopposed.
When Arkansas Democrats issue their protest vote against President Obama's liberal agenda -- and polls show a significant number will -- they'll be voting for a guy who calls himself a "progressive," who is campaigning against Wall Street and the Pentagon and who ran some kind of ad against Newt Gingrich defending the Palestinian people.
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