I'll be at the TEA Party tomorrow and will be posting stuff from the event(if Blogger doesn't block me again). Tom Ziglar, I've never heard him speak so this should be interesting. There are plenty of activities planned so you do have to stand around for hours' [...] 
I had planned to spend most of today geocaching but I was unable to get on to the server. After several hours of trying to get on I searched and found that the site had gone down because of a fire. The small fire at Fisher Plaza [...] .jpg)
... with your open line comments. And easy on the fireworks, please. Friday Night Lights is on my mnd. I"ve been re-watching the series on DVD. Good stuff. Thanks to Scott Miller for a weekend-appropriate photo of his flag-bedecked Argenta home. In other news:
WATER MAIN: A reader reported while I snoozed [...]
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Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: Tomorrow, on July 4th, people across America will rally in citizen organized TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party rallies. People will gather to promote individual liberty, free market ideals and Constitutional principles. Many are motivated by a 2009 budget [...] Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Thursday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, allowing her to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
She'll step down July 25. Some cable talkers' [...]
Interesting article here about a Republican candidate for governor in Iowa, Bob Vander Plaats. He was chairman of Mike Huckabee's Iowa presidential primary campaign. Vander Plaats has apparently decided gay marriage is his big ticket, after a couple of losing bids for statewide office.
When the Iowa Supreme Court legalized [...]
Posting will light this weekend, as we chase each other round the yard with bottle rockets and Black Cats. Be safe kids! [...] 
Look, you’re welcome to keep clicking over here to see if something new has happened, but you’re bound to be disappointed, because I’m taking a couple of days away from the blog. You find something else to occupy your time, because I’m going to be very [...]
Want a holiday downer? Try Paul Krugman. He says the government simply must pump more money into stimulating the economy. And he sounds a warning about devastated state budgets that may, before too long, hit home in Arkansas. Until now, we've been doing better than most, but revenue took' [...]
Well here's one I didn't see in the morning Democrat-Gazette:
The ashes of Socks, the "First Cat" of both the Arkansas Governor's Mansion during the Clinton years and then the White House, were scattered at the Mansion in March. A brief ceremony included First Lady Ginger Beebe's reading' [...]
Thomas More Law Center: ANN ARBOR, MI – Yesterday ( 7/1/09), seven Texas-area Muslim organizations filed an appeal of the unanimous ruling of the Texas Second Court of Appeals at Forth Worth, which protected the free speech rights of internet journalists and at the same time dealt [...] 
Sarah Palin does what Obama should have done when he ran for President:
