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Arkansas school vouchers
Hillbilly wisdom: put your money where it will do the most good FOR EVERYONE. Like a broken record, once again Arkansas is putting their public money- money allocated for public education- into other venues. There are more than 50,000 requests for the voucher program in the school year 2025-26. This… Read more.
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Different or the Same
Hillbilly wisdom: if you let the fox guard the chickens, chickens will go missing. It is ridiculous to expect the fox to be any thing but a fox and two foxes together will take more chickens than one does. The results of the meeting between Putin and Trump (Russia and… Read more.
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Insurance Regulation Arkansas
Hillbilly wisdom: you can not make insurance companies provide coverage within your state. As a state you can set rates which must be considered but whether the company chooses to work within your state is a private decision. And personal experience tells me when one company leaves the others will… Read more.
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Fifty First State
Hillbilly version: Trump, there is a unsubstantiated rumor, will buy part of Russia for America. If true, I hope he can get a deal at least as good as Steward’s Folly. Or he could get a deal for the United Nations to own the disputed land areas between Russia and… Read more.
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Hide what you fear
Hillbilly version: things are not as good as some would have you believe. There is a tendency to hide what is unpleasant or less than perfect. Maybe this applies to the homeless in nation’s capital. Homelessness has a lot of negative connotations. Our fearless leader approaches this by restricting those.… Read more.
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Drill baby drill
Hillbilly wisdom: Drilling for energy is not the same as producing more energy. A producing well will not impact the cost or availability of energy to the American consumer if it is capped. More energy available could and probably does reduce the profit margin for energy companies. There is no… Read more.
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School vouchers in Arkansas
Hillbilly wisdom: think Rich Shumate said it best. On 7-7-25 “Sander’s pet project has become a voracious consumer of taxpayer dollar, with more than 374 million spent in the first three years on a program that hasn’t, doesn’t, and want improve a single public school anywhere in Arkansas”. It is… Read more.
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Expectations of peace
Hillbilly version: Peace will come before I take office. Deals will be made. Trump will be ignored again. His deal making ability does not extend to those which he cannot bully. His latest attempt, Putin in Alaska, will get the same results as his previous attempts at peace between Russia… Read more.
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Early success for no cell phone law
Hillbilly wisdom: the new law is working as it was designed? Reported early results in Arkansas include 1)Increased student interaction; 2)improved classroom focus; 3)positive parental feedback; and 4)potential for reduction in disciplinary issues and missed assignments. Early results cautiously point out the “the long term impact of the Bell to… Read more.
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Who can you trust
Hillbilly version: the game is not fixed, it is predetermined. Go back twenty, forty, or fifty years and examine the direction of this country. The facts say the top tier of the population are getting richer and the gap between the top and the bottom grows. Both parties point or… Read more.