The University of Central Arkansas is host to a Confucius Institute. UCA says the mission of the institute is to “strengthen ties between the State of Arkansas and the People’s Republic of China, to enhance the mutual understanding of each respective culture and to promote Chinese language and culture within the State of Arkansas.”[i] UCA’s website says the institute opened in 2007 and was the 24th institute to open in the United States, and there are now over 500 institutes operating in the US.…
The newspaper headline said – “State agency no-shows leave lawmakers vexed.”[i] Governor Asa Hutchinson refused to have two of his agency heads testify before a particular legislative committee. The committee responded by authorizing a subpoena for the agency heads. It was a fight between Republicans. It is a fight between the Governor and his allies and legislators who are upset with the Governor’s actions. We decided to revisit this story as an example of how Arkansas governors now dominate th…
To reopen their shops, hairstylists are being forced to act as government agents. They must log your contact information for the government when you come in as a client. Why? It is all in the name of COVID-19. The government demands to get your information for “contact tracing” – tracking and quarantining people who might have been in contact with someone who had the virus. The state already has about 200 people doing contact tracing.[i] While we understand the desire to keep people safe, we are…
Who knew that within a matter of weeks most everyone would become germophobes? The pandemic hit and suddenly most people are better at washing our hands than a raccoon, stand far apart from one another, wearing a mask at the grocery store, and carry hand sanitizer. Some are more vigilant in their social distancing practice than even the government edicts. Liberals are using the pandemic as an excuse to get what they wanted all along voting by mail or no-excuse absentee voting, and they want to…
