Huckabee Insults the Base, Again

Apparently, if you want to stop illegal immigration more than Huckabee, which isn't difficult, you're a lunatic. Here's the link.

Huckabee's Ethics Problems

Here's the link to the Politico story.

It barely scratches the surface.

Mike Huckabee Admits He's Bad on Illegal Immigration Issue

I've been telling you about this for a long time. I've pointed out that Huckabee has decided that he just can't keep up with all the lies he's been telling about his record so he decided to brag about it. That's right, folks. Mike Huckabee has been bragging about being for illegal immigration. He's now admitting that he's going to lose votes because he's proud that he ran Arkansas as a Sanctuary State. He's more interested in spending our money than he is in winning the Republican nomination. I hope that works out for him. I'd love to see him lose it because he is so blatantly pro-illegal alien.

Let's be clear about this, though. Mike Huckabee has already proven that he's not above lying to cover up his record. He's only embracing this because he knows he can't get away with lying about it.

Here's the link.

Treacherous John Murtha Forced to Admit That We Are Winning

This one is for my friends, and others, who still refuse to see our overwhelming success in Iraq.

Murtha has been aiding and abetting the enemy since we went to war and should be tried for treason. There are many others who have been rooting for our defeat, some right here in Arkansas.

Now even Murtha has been forced to amit what a fool he is, though not in so many words. We are winning in Iraq.

We will not forget that the democrat party has been demanding our surrender and defeat for the last four years. They have no right to claim any part of the credit for the success in Iraq. They have been cowardly and unpatriotic and owe our troops and the American people an apology and a stack of resignations.

Keep your eye on this, though. They will spend the next year trying to claim some credit for America's success in Iraq. They had nothing to do with it. It is entirely in spite of their sabotage. I doubt you'll see this at the ArkTimes blog. Max is neck deep in the pro-defeat camp.

Here's the link.

Chuck Facts---Arkansas Journal Style

I came across this the other day. It looks like my video has really been making the rounds. Thank you to shared voice for making this video.

Mexican Consulate in Little Rock---You Can Thank Huck for That

You won't here Huckabee bragging about this too much, but I have to give him credit, since he was the driving force behind bringing a Mexican Consulate to Little Rock.Mike Huckabee violated state law by renting a state facility to the Mexican for $1.

What's the Mexican Consulate been up to? Giving out nearly 200 IDs to illegal aliens per day.

Here's the link.

Also, here's a link to a superb video documenting Huckabee's exploits bringing the Mexican Consulate to Little Rock.

YouTube Debate: Huckabee Brags about Wanting to Give College Scholarships to Illegal Aliens

I brought you this story earlier. It looks like Huckabee's learned his lesson about lying to cover up his record. His new tack is to embrace his liberal record. Last night in the YouTube debate he said that he was proud that he wanted to spend our money to send illegal aliens to college. He then gave a very tortured explanation of how it was supposedly conservative to spend our money on illegal aliens.

The fact is that is one of the reasons Arkansas is a Sanctuary State. In his State of the State Address, which I brought you earlier, Huckabee says that we should have open doors to illegal aliens and give them opportunities.

He opposed 287(g) being enforced because he claimed that we didn't have the money to spend on law enforcement, the one legitimate use of state money.

He also lied, again, when he said that he would require the illegal alien to have been in Arkansas schools all their life and be applying for citizenship. The bill never said anything about that.

The fact is that Mike Huckabee is a big government, nanny-state, liberal "Republican". He did it again in his speech, by insinuation, but he used to be much more overt in accusing those of us, the majority of Arkansans, who oppose giving our tax dollars to illegal aliens racists, bigots, and bad-Christians.

Arkansas Legislator on Mancow Radio Show about Huckabee

State Representative Jon Woods, R-Springdale was a guest on the Mancow radio show on XM radio this morning. I was unable to hear it, but I was told that Mr. Woods talked about how Huckabee strong-armed Republican legislators to vote for his pro-illegal alien bills.

Here's a link to the show.

Response to Dick Morris---The Guy Who Brought Us Bill Clinton---Now He Supports Mike Huckabee

Dick Morris, the man who wrote an entire book about why Condi Rice would be the next president...seriously, is now going to bat for the Huckster. He wasn't above glossing over Clinton's flaws and he doesn't seem to mind doing the same for Mike Huckabee.

I will admit that I often find Dick Morris' political analysis to be instructive and sometimes spot on, but claiming that Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative is a joke.

I guess Dick Morris, a political strategist, not a policy analyst, knows more than the Cato Institute, which gave Huckabee a D- for his fiscal policy. Morris is also outclassed by the folks at the Club for Growth, which is a group made up of real fiscal conservatives. Club for Growth has done a remarkable amount of research into the Huckster's record. That research, much of which I've posted, hasn't been pretty for Huckabee.

Huckabee's Lies

One question, that Morris conveniently ignored, is why did Huckabee resort to lying about at least two major parts of his fiscal record if he doesn't have anything to hide?

One of Huckabee's lies was his claim that 80% of Arkansans voted for the 1999 gasoline tax. Club for Growth has thoroughly disproved that one. It's not as if they're keeping it a secret. Morris had access to that information, but he chose to ignore it.

The other lie was in response to my video of Huckabee begging the Arkansas Legislature for a tax increase, any tax increase. I busted Huckabee lying about that on Fox News two days after my video was released, claiming that it was about an Arkansas Supreme Court mandate, when that tax increase didn't happen till at least 8 months later.

Huck's Critics: The People Who Know Him

The most galling thing of all about Morris' condescending column is his assertion that the people going after Huckabee's record have never been to Arkansas and don't know him. In fact that's exactly the opposite of the truth. I have lived in Arkansas all my life. Max Brantley and John Brummett have been here for the entirety of Mike Huckabee's career in politics, so have former State Representative Randy Minton and Betsy Hagan. Quin Hillyer used to write for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and John Fund has been keeping up with Arkansas politics since before Huckabee took office.

I challenge Dick Morris to disprove anything any of us has said about Mike Huckabee. The fact is that Mike Huckabee has almost NO support in Arkansas. Even after his typo-riddled letter to Republican legislators asking for support Huckabee was still only able to garner support from about 1/3 of the sitting and recent legislators. Several of those asked to be removed from the list.

Morris just isn't telling the truth. The people who aren't from Arkansas and don't know Mike Huckabee aren't the people who are criticizing him. They're the people defending him.

Dick Morris knows that's true. He's not stupid. It's a simple and demonstrable fact that Mike Huckabee's critics, myself included, know Huckabee far better than Morris and the other people defending him.

Fiscal Conservative?

I'll let Nachama Soloveichik, Communications Director for Club for Growth, dismantle Dick Morris' pitiful claim that Huckabee is a fiscal conservative. Here's a taste:

"Morris excuses the fact that the average Arkansas tax burden rose 47% under Hucakbee’s tenure by saying that other states raised taxes more. Even if we take Morris’ word on this, that is not a particularly comforting thought. There are many liberal governors out there, and I wouldn’t want them to be the Republican nominee for President either. It’s like saying Billy hit Sally twice, so it’s okay that Jimmy hit her only once."

Here's the link to her superb response. You'll also find the link to Morris' column in her piece.

Christmas Tree Taken Down Because of ONE Complaint

Missouri State University in Springfield took the tree down after one person complained. They have since found out what the rest of us think and are putting it back up.

It always boggles my mind how some people are more worried about offending a handful of people, but don't mind offending all the rest of us.

Here's the link.

Back, By Popular Demand: YouTube Debate, Appropriately, Featured My Video of Mike Huckabee Begging the Arkansas Legislature for a Tax Increase

Here's the now-world famous video. To quote Mike Huckabee, "you have nothing but my profound thanks" for airing my video.

Here's the video Fred Thompson's campaign produced. It was posted on the New York Times The Caucus blog, which posted some of the more interesting videos and did some interesting analysis.

Bill Clinton is a Whiney Baby and, As Usual, a Liar

Bill Clinton, for no good reason, is now claiming that he always opposed the War in Iraq.

"I still resent that I was not asked, or given the opportunity, to support those soldiers."

What is he talking about? Since when does a sitting president have a responsibility to "ask" his predecessor's blessing?

Saying that shows the childish and petty Bill Clinton many of us know. More so, it shows his remarkable arrogance and condescension. Did anyone in that crowd care about that? I doubt it. But he just had to throw a tantrum. He thinks everything he says is is so clever. He acts like he's doing those people a favor by letting them hear what he has to say.

All that is just tangential to the remarkable and obvious lie that he didn't support the war or that he opposed it, of which there is much evidence in to the contrary.

In response to that, I offer the following. Also the video above thoroughly dismisses his claim.

Update: The Real Mike Huckabee---Rush Limbaugh Weighing In---Also Makes Drudge Report via BreitBart.com

Andrew DeMillo with the AP has a great article about the difference between what Mike Huckabee says now and his actual record.

This one is well worth the read. It covers a lot of bases. Anyone who wants to know the real Mike Huckabee can see instance after instance of Mike Huckabee not just distancing himself from his record, but lying about it.

Here's the link.

Update: Rush Limbaugh is talking about this article right now. He just read it on the air. This is a good development because Rush just told all of his listeners that Mike Huckabee isn't the conservative he's pretending to be.

McDaniel Running for Governor...Now He Supports 2nd Amendment

Democrats have learned their lesson. The right to keep and bear arms is not something to be trifled with, unless you're trying to sue gun manufacturers.

Of course, McDaniel is counting on us forgetting. One could say that he's trying to do penance by joining Arkansas to an amicus brief supporting the individual right to keep and bear arms to the U.S. Supreme Court. If that was the case, he would come out with it and apologize for his role in suing law abiding gun manufacturers for liability for what criminals do with their product, as if their product was defective or they were pulling the trigger.

I don't buy the penance argument. Dustin McDaniel is going to run for governor in 2014 and everything he does between now and then will be geared toward that goal.

DeMillo has the story for the AP. Here's the link.

John Lyon has it for Arkansas News. Here's the link.

NRO Interview with Club for Growth's Pat Toomey

Some more good stuff about Huck. Here's the link.

Huckabee Wanted to Give In-State Tuition AND College Scholarships to Illegal Aliens

Here's the link to the Washington Post blog called The Trail.

NEWSFLASH: Exclusive Video of Mike Huckabee Calling for Scholarships and In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens

The following is from one of my favorite readers here at the Arkansas Journal.

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Huckabee announces his desire to give scholarships to illegal aliens in his January 11, 2005 State of the State address. Huckabee doesn't say "illegal aliens". He uses the word "status". But a newspaper account makes clear his intentions, "Illegal aliens would be eligible for state taxpayer-funded college scholarships and in-state college tuition rates under a bill that was endorsed by a committee of the Arkansas House of Representatives on Tuesday. House Bill 1525 by Rep. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, is part of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s legislative package. It easily won favor in the House Education Committee, of which Elliott is chairman." (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 2/23/2005)

Rep. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, said she had already planned to file a bill granting instate status to the children of immigrants who live in Arkansas and have applied to state universities. "It’s nice to know we will have an ally in the governor’s office." (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1/12/05)

Another newspaper account, "Gov. Mike Huckabee, who included the bill in his legislative package, drew a contrast between Wednesday's vote in support of illegal immigrants and the state's handling of the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School. "They took a stand that Arkansas can be proud of,"Huckabee said in describing the House. "I think if we had taken a similar one in 1957, it would have made us proud for a long, long time." " (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 2/24/2005)

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Huckabee was insinuating that not giving taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens was akin to stopping the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High. Therefore, we're all racists if we don't think that we should have to give illegal aliens college scholarships, saying nothing of the U.S. citizens who would lose out on that same opportunity.

Huckabee calling those of us in Arkansas who opposed illegal immigration racists was par for the course. He went so far as to suggest that a Republican legislator wasn't a good Christian for proposing a bill to prohibit spending taxpayer money to give illegal aliens benefits, saying that he drank a different kind of "Jesus juice".

Huckabee ran Arkansas as a sanctuary state. "Do we want to change the future for these kids? Then let’s give them the opportunity. Let’s not say that our doors are open but our opportunities are closed," Huckabee said in his address.

Rep. Denny Altes, R-Fort Smith, said citizens’ children should come first in college scholarship eligibility. "What kind of message are we sending to the people south of the border, you know?" Altes said. "Are we saying, ‘Yeah, come on,’ or are we saying, ‘No. There’s still a border there.’" (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1/12/05)

There is much more to come on Huckabee's Sanctuary State in the coming weeks. I've said before that each of these posts is another nail in Huckabee's political coffin. I've got a whole box of nails.

Here's the link to the full text of the January 11, 2005 speech.

Here's are the links to the newspaper articles: 1, 2, and 3.

Here's a link to the progress the bill made and a link the original bill.

How Now, Green Al? Global Temperatures Continue 9 Year Decline to 1983 Level

As Al Gore was being honored by President Bush at the White House, yesterday, a story from the UK Telegraph was circulating around the internet that average global temperatures have fallen steadily since 1998 to the lowest level since 1983.

As I said on Sunday, global warming kooks will find a way to demonstrate that this global cooling is actually just proof of global warming.

Here's the story.

No Tears

Fox News just had a great story about a father wrote a song to help him deal with his grief after his son was killed in Iraq. Sgt. Brandon Wallace was killed by a road side bomb while serving in Fallujah.

Rick's song, No Tears, has been an inspiration to people around the country and I highly recommend it.

Here's the link to the website, http://www.rickandlisawallace.com/

Thompson's Pro-Life Position

Fred's is far more realistic than Huck's position, which is an all or nothing position, requiring a 2/3s majority in both Houses of Congress (a minimum of 357 votes-67 in the senate, impossible, and 290 in the house, also impossible, and 3/4s of the state legislatures (37 states, also very impossible).

But, hey, Huck doesn't really think he'll accomplish that any more than passing the Fair Tax. He's just shilling for votes.

Here's the link.

Houston Goes to Ole Miss

Again, ESPN has the story. Here's the link.

Houston is reportedly being paid $1.9 million a year for five years, which begs the question why are we forgiving his $500,000 penalty for leaving and, I think, trying to pay him the rest of his contract? He resigned, right?

So, who's it gonna be to replace him? I've heard such crazy names as former Razorback great/Cowboy coach/NFL commentator Jimmie Johnson. More seriously, I've heard Mike Leach from Texas Tech, Bo Pelini from LSU, and recently Will Muschamp, Auburn's D-Co.

I've also heard talk that Gus Malzahn will be invited back to be our O-Co, again.

From ESPN: Houston Nutt is Gone

Watching press conference. Houston has announced his resignation.

Possible destinations...Georgia Tech, Nebraska, SMU, and Ole Miss.

Possible replacements...LSU Defensive Coordinator Bo Pelini, who is being eyed by Nebraska, and Texas Tech's Mike Leach. Better still...Gus Malzahn.

Here's the link to the ESPN story. Expect a press conference tonight at 6:30.

Milk Board Considering Ways to Keep State's Small Dairy Farms Afloat---Here's a Thought...Stop Subsidizing Ethanol

Rob Moritz has this story for Arkansas News discussing how the state can keep small dairy farms in business.

I have an idea. Why not stop subsidizing the people who grow their feed?

The state and federal government are driving up the price of corn and other crops used for feed, but I doubt they'll consider that they made this worse than it would otherwise would have been. Playing with dairy prices is only going to make things even worse.
Of course, they're not worried about how all of this hurts consumers like you and me. The cost of meat and dairy is more expensive for all of us because the government can't keep its hands off the free market.
Here's the link.

Bailout Subprime? Bad Idea

I came across this website from the Citizens for Economic Responsibility. It has some good resources on the importance of people and mortgage companies taking responsibility for risky borrowing and lending.

Here's the link.

Licenses for Illegal Aliens=Votes for Democrats by People Who Aren't Citizens

So what's the big deal? Well there are lots of big deals. It's a gross assault on our sovereignty, for one. For democrats, it's huge push for new voters. Federal motor voter laws make it so that people with driver's licenses can register to vote. Why not? They don't even require a driver's license to vote in Arkansas.

77% of American Oppose Licenses for Illegals

Here's the link.

Hillary for it.

Here's the link.

Huckabee was for it.

Here's the link.

Thoughts on Global Warming

I was having lunch with friends recently when the subject of the weather came up. My friend commented that it was good that we were getting some rain and mentioned the drought out East (Georgia, etc...). His wife interjected those two dreadful words that always seem to come up when something different happens with the weather---dum dum duuuummmm---GLOBAL WARMING!!!

I should have known better because earlier I had recounted a story another friend tells of how he celebrates "Earth Day" by driving his SUV into a pristine wilderness, revving his engine, and shooting down a tree with his shotgun, which I've always thought was hilarious. She didn't laugh. In fact, I would describe her as nonplussed that anyone would find that amusing. But I digress.

Jump back to the point in our discussion when she dropped the GW-bomb. Intimating that a drought, or any weather event or pattern, is caused by man-made global warming is, to me, an effete, knee-jerk response. When I asked her if she was familiar with the Dust Bowl she seemed disinterested. I attempted to explain that during the 1930s much of the Midwest was literally turned to dust by a combination of poor soil conservation and, worse, almost no rain for several years. Being a good liberal, I assumed she had read The Grapes of Wrath.

My point was, of course, that weather changes and cycles. The poor soil conservation of the Dust Bowl isn't something that the current drought in the Southeast has in common with that period. What they do have in common is a severe lack of rain. Her obvious reason for not wanting to compare the two periods is that a lack of rain in the 1930s can't easily be blamed on supposedly man-made global warming.

Driving home the other night I was considering how cold it was. The cold-snap on the eve of Thanksgiving reminded me of many in years past, but it reminded me more of the remarkable practice my friend's wife has adopted, as have so many others, of blaming every weather occurrence on GLOBAL WARMING.

After Hurricane Katrina we were told by Al Gore that we were in for more and more strong hurricanes seasons. As if on cue, the next two hurricane seasons were veritable doldrums, leading some global warming prophets to restrain the urge to make such near-term prognostications.

The vast majority of these wizened witch doctors cannot resist the urge to proclaim with stereotypical smugness that every weather fluctuation is irrefutable proof of global warming, as they whir around town in their metallic blue, hybrid status symbols with their noses pointed to the sky.

They illustrate the foolishness of their false philosophy with each trailing statement of certainty. I often find myself saying or thinking 'well, hasn't this or that weather event or pattern happened a lot in the course of history?' I suggested as much to my friend's wife, bringing up the concept of geologic time, that is, events in the scope of the Earth's age. She, of course, believes that the earth is millions or billions of years old, whereas I believe it's more like thousands of years. But either amount of time illustrates the concept, hers more so. The concept of the vastness of the Earth's age truly dwarfs our existence and the history of our short punctuations on that timeline.

Once you begin to view the totality of that timeline, considering the many disparate climatic periods, perspective and relativity begin to smack you in the face, knocking you off the pedestal of superiority to which 21st century man is accustomed. Consider this gem from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth...we are at a 500 year high in average temperature. That profound statement of fact begs the question, what were we doing 500 years ago to cause global warming? It also reminds me of another much-neglected fact, that carbon in ice-core records always lags temperature by about 600 years, meaning that it isn't a driver of temperature, but a result of it.

Consider the following, when the temperature is high substances in aerosol form tend to maintain a place in the atmosphere more easily than when the temperature is low, which causes the air to sink. It's basic physical science, of course, but you'd never know it if you listened to Al Gore tell this convenient untruth that ice-core records prove that carbon is a driver of temperature instead of the other way around.

Let's get back to prognostications, though. If global warming caused the current drought in the East, why hadn't any of the unanimous scientific community predicted it, specifically? Why is it that they always tell us after the fact, 'oh, by the way, this is because of global warming...'? Why don't they make specific predictions, a year, a month out? Why? The same reason why meteorologists said it was going to rain today and it didn't...because weather forecasting is often as much an art as a science the further out the date of prognostication.

All that said, why should we listen to people who cannot predict the weather next month or next year when they tell us what the climate will be like 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now? Why, when they told us 30 years ago that we were headed into an ice age? The answer is we shouldn't.

Consider the solutions to global warming...higher taxes, decreased development, higher regulations, vast wealth redistribution... Sound familiar? Those are the exact same goals that liberals had long before global warming and, strangely enough, the same solutions for the coming ice age which never happened. It's not that the average liberal doesn't firmly believe that we are destroying the planet. It's that they don't see that, however odd, their solution to economic inequality is the same as their solution to global warming and every other problem in the world. It's that they don't like being presented with the dilemma of historical perspective when blaming every variation in the weather on their current pet theory.

I doubt my friend's wife will consider anything I said when reason made a glancing blow on her worldview. I was glad to change the subject, as much for my friend's sake as my own. Talking about travel plans and movies to watch offered significantly less friction, so I took that path. I learned long ago the Bible's lesson about throwing pearls before certain types of people.

Fred at a South Carolina Gun Show: "A Beautiful Day in Paradise"

Fred Thompson, who holds a commanding lead in South Carolina, visited a gun show while on the trail there, showing his roots as average joe. FYI, every Republican nominee since who knows when has won South Carolina. Here's the link to the story.

BAD NEWS!!! Australian Prime Minister John Howard Loses Reelection

Freedom and security were dealt a severe blow this week with the electoral defeat of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a faithful friend and ally of the United States. Howard was a real conservative who stood shoulder to shoulder with us against international terrorism and, also, against radical environmentalism.

His successor has vowed to abandon us in our time of need and to join the failed Kyoto Treaty. God help our cousins in Australia.

You can bet there's roaring applause in the caves of al Qaeda, today.

Here are a few links on the story: 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Jonah Goldberg on Huck and Paul---This is Scary

Jonah Goldberg comes to the sad conclusion that Ron Paul has a better basis and foundation for fiscal conservatism than Mike Huckabee. He's right.

Here's the link.

Hogs Win Battle of the Boot!!! More Reason to Fire Nutt

For some people, the Hogs beating #1 LSU redeems Houston Nutt. The truth is, it highlights the fact that he should be fired, because it illustrates the fact that the Hogs are capable of beating every team they played this season. But having lost several close to teams who were nowhere near as good as LSU was the fault of poor coaching not a lack of talent. This game proves it. We took the field yesterday with the same team that played Alabama, Kentucky, Auburn, and Tennessee. Each of those losses was the fault of poor coaching. Houston needs to take responsibility for that. I'm sure he'd love to take responsibility for yesterday's win, but he was so eager to point out all the things that made the losses someone else's fault.

It's time for the Hogs to rebuild and that starts with a new coach.

Harry King has some thoughts for Arkansas News. Here's the link.

Excuses, Excuses...Huckabee Has All Kind of Excuses

There will always be excuses for taxes and spending. Rarely are programs proposed that aren't loaded up with all kinds of reasons to support them. Usually, it's because everybody wants it or it's for the children or it's because the person who should have been leading didn't have a choice.

Basically, if you're up against a democrat legislature (Reagan), it's okay to raise taxes and spending...

Huckabee Lying About His Record---RedState Blog Has the Story

Here's the link.

Where Are They Now Files: Rod Martin

From the where-are-they-now files, here's a blast from the past about another Arkansan who is mispresenting who he really is.

Rod Martin, who has been known to describe himself as Dr. Martin (he's a lawyer), has in the past told the tall tale that democrats in Arkansas were so scared of him that they recruited another candidate to run in the Republican primary, to avoid having incumbent Congressman Vic Snyder face him. The fact, however, is that he raised nearly $100,000 and spent most of it on food, rent, and almost anything else other than actually campaigning.

Here are a couple of links to stories about the machinations of Rod Martin: 1, 2.

Huckabee---On One Hand He Says He Was Up Against Democrats and On the Other He Always Seemed to Do What They Wanted

Cutting Spending?---Too Tough.

Huckabee's said repeatedly that cutting spending was unrealistic because of a democrat majority in the legislature. Reagan had a democrat controlled congress for most of his 2 terms. He didn't cave to them. He didn't make excuses. When he had to choose between us and government he always chose us. Huckabee did the opposite.

This leads me to another problem. Huckabee keeps bragging about balancing the budget. He didn't do that because he was so great at governing. He did it because he was required to by the state constitution.

There are 2 ways to balance a budget: raise taxes and cut spending. Huckabee always chose to raise taxes to balance the budget, doing so on the backs of the Arkansas taxpayers, because the government budget was always more important to the Huckster than the budgets of average Arkansans.

Clinton Machine?---He Kept Them On in His Administration.

When talking about his many ethics charges, though, Huckabee blames it on democrats going after him, which is odd since he did what they wanted almost all the time.

"Mr. Huckabee's reluctance to surround himself with conservatives was evident as governor, when he kept many agency heads appointed by Bill Clinton. Zac Wright, a spokesman for incoming Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, was asked this year why 15 Huckabee agency heads had been retained. Most of them were "Clinton people," he replied, not "Huckabee people."

Well, Huck, which is it?

Half of the time when you're twisting your record you say it's because democrats made you do things. The other half you say you were embattled by the Clinton Machine in Arkansas (which was actually in Washington, D.C. for much of the time).

Hillary Wins Support of French Ex-First Lady

How appropriate.

The wife of former French President Jacques Chirac has announced her support for Hillary Clinton's candidacy for president.

Here's the link.

PSC Approves Coal Fired Plant---More Energy Before Winter---Now That's Some Good News

Arkansas News has the story. Here's the link.

American Soldier Adopts Disabled Iraqi Child

Here's the link.

The Real Story of Thanksgiving...The Triumph of Biblical Free Enterprise and the Failure of Socialism, Again

"For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense...that was thought injustice."

That was from the diary of William Bradford the leader of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Having witnessed the failure of socialism first-hand, Bradford divided the land and gave each person their own plot. Each family was responsible only for themselves. They no longer worked for a common lot. It was thus that "This had very good success," wrote Bradford, "for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been."

Where did they learn this? They learned it from the Bible. "But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." -II Corinthians 9:6

They set up trading posts and were able to pay off their debts early having become prosperous.

After that first harvest they invited the Indians with whom they traded to a feast to give thanks to God for his great blessings and abundance.

Here's the link to Rush Limbaugh's annual recounting of the true story of Thanksgiving. John Stossel also has the story. Here's the link.

NEWSFLASH---Mike Huckabee Supported Bill to Give Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens

During the 2001 regular session of the Arkansas Legislature, Mike Huckabee supported giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

How did he do that? Here are a few excerpts from 2001 articles about the legislation and Huckabee's support of it, as expressed by a spokesman, his liaison to the Arkansas Department of Human Services.

"In other action Tuesday, the House rejected a bill that would allow the issuance of Arkansas driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The vote on House Bill 2212 by Rep. Tracy Steele, D-North Little Rock, was 46-46, with 51 votes needed to pass the bill. HB2212, which remains available for House consideration, would amend Act 1099 of 1997, which enumerates various conditions under which a driver's license can't be issued by the state Office of Driver Services. HB2212 would delete the act's provision that bans the issuing of a license to someone 'who is making an initial application for an Arkansas driver's license and who is not lawfully within the United States" or to "any person who is not lawfully within the United States.' Steele and other proponents of HB2212 said Hispanics, both legally and illegally in the United States, have been discriminated against when attempting to obtain a driver's license on the basis of their skin color or accent. Because employees of the Office of Driver Services may lack the training or expertise to determine if an applicant is an illegal immigrant, Steele said that status shouldn't be a condition of obtaining a license." (Michael Wickline, "Senate OKs Plan To Raise Teacher Pay," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3/14/01)

Mike Huckabee's Human Services Liaison expressed the governor's position, supporting the measure to repeal the law denying the issuance of drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. In 2001, there was discussion of HB 2212 in the state assembly to repeal a 1997 Arkansas law prohibiting issuance of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Proponents said the bill was necessary because legal immigrants were getting harassed when they went to get drivers licenses. Huckabee's Human Services liaison defended the bill, saying the following:

"People shouldn't be harassed based on who they are or what they look like," said [Robert] Trevino, who also is Gov. Mike Huckabee's human services liaison. "We just don't want to be treated as second class. We don't have a problem with prohibiting illegal aliens from getting driver's licenses. We have a problem with hassling those who are here legitimately." (Michael Rowett, "Bill Aims To Help Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3/18/01)

When reached for comment this afternoon, former Arkansas State Representative Jeremy Hutchinson said, "the proponents of this bill kept telling us that their intent wasn't to give illegals driver's licenses but when we asked them to amend the bill to state that, they always refused. Finally after killing the bill on the floor twice, they amended the bill. I asked Bob Trevino if the Governor was for this bill and he said 'of course, he was."

When asked about the bill, former Arkansas State Representative Jake Files added, "I remember Bob Trevino working all the legislators hard on the merits of this bill in committees and around the Capitol. As Trevino was a member of the Governor's staff, it was apparent that the Governor was supportive of the bill or his staff members would not have been. We(legislators who voted against it) were concerned about the ramifications of the bill and the message that it sent promoting Arkansas as a "safe haven" for illegals."

The result of that, however, would have been to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens since Huckabee supposedly didn't want to offend legal immigrants.

Robert Trevino, as Gov. Huckabee's liaison to the Department of Human Services, was Huckabee's spokesman on this issue. It was his job to express Huckabee's position to the media and within the government. He did just that. Speaking on behalf of his boss, Mike Huckabee, he advocated changing the law to allow illegal aliens to get Arkansas driver's licenses so that legal immigrants wouldn't be "hassled".

Trevino, who was also the director of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) at the time, also travelled to Mexico on behalf of Gov. Huckabee to finalize terms of an agreement to open a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock.

The final version of this bill removed this crucial portion, but that doesn't erase the fact that Mike Huckabee supported a bill to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. I couldn't find any record of Huckabee or his administration repudiating Trevino or this policy position. They just accepted the reality that they couldn't pass it.

I will set up pages soon showing copies of HB 2212 and several of its amendments to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

In the meantime, I'm dying to see how Huckabee will explain this one. Expect a period of silence while they figure out their talking points to respond to it.

Thanksgiving...The World Should be Thankful for America---Mark Steyn

My favorite Englishman, Mark Steyn, has written a superb piece about the American tradition of Thanksgiving. His most poignant suggestion is that the rest of the world should be thankful for us.

Here's the link.

Fred Says No to Amnesty

Thanksgiving: Energy Prices Reach an All-Time High---Mike Beebe's Solution? Raise Taxes on Fuel Production---Thanks a Lot

I've been talking about this for quite some time.

Mike Beebe has an obsession with raising the severance tax on natural gas. Why? Well, no particular reason. Are we experiencing a budget shortfall? No.

Are we already experiencing high energy costs? Yes.

Economists are predicting that home heating prices will be higher than ever this winter. Gasoline prices are over $3/gallon.

What does Gov. Mike Beebe want to do to help? Raise the cost of fuel!!!

Thanks, Gov. You have a Happy Thanksgiving, too.

Here are some links to related stories. 1, 2, and 3.

Video Montage: Club for Growth on Huckabee

Here's more footage recounting Huck's tax and spend record as governor.

Notice how he blinks like crazy every time Club for Growth is mentioned. A body language expert would probably say that he's not very happy to have this subject mentioned.

Here's the link.