Peter Ferrara live on Little Rock talker today, "The Dave Elswick Show"

Cowboys get commitment Oklahoma State’s defensive line keeps getting deeper. On Monday, the Cowboys picked up their 11th oral commitment overall and third defensive end, according to Scout.com. Anthony Rogers of North Little Rock, Ark., had committed to Mississippi State but changed his mind...... more

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Last year, Allan Mueller thinks he saw the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The wildlife biologist wants to make sure of it this winter.... more

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A television anchorwoman killed in her home had been sexually assaulted and beaten so badly in a suspected burglary that her jaw shattered and she broke a hand while trying to fend off her attacker’s blows, her parents said Monday.... more

Picking up on the narrative (and theme) of our May 14 post , Eli Lehrer of the Competitive Enterprise Institute writes in the May 18 Tampa Tribune that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist may have created an untenable situation by bulking up the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp.  (He and the legislature also have put an artificial cap on premiums that will compound the financial pressure on insurers, private and public.)   Lehrer suggests federal intervention (the leg... more

The Treasury Department’s tax collection data for April puts the Federal deficit over the 12 month period ending April 30 at $144.7 billion.  This leaves the deficit at about 1% of GDP, and declining, which is not a significant economic problem. The decline is due to surging tax revenues from a booming economy.  The deficit is down about $120 billion, or 45%, since last April.  It has declined by $309 billion, or 68 percent, over the last three years from the peak of $455 billio... more

Thanks to George Will for sparking an idea in this feeble brain.     Will points out that where so-called gasoline "price gouging" is concerned, it is really politicians, not oil companies who are "gouging" the public:   "While oil companies make about 13 cents on a gallon of gasoline, the federal government makes 18.4 cents (the federal tax) and California’s various governments make 40.2 cents (the nation’s third highest gasoline tax). . . San Francisco c... more

I  just attended the Cable Show (http://www.thecableshow.com/), and touring the floor, having the future described to me by one small business after another it occurred to me that many of these businesses would simply cease to exist under virtually any "net neutrality" regime.  Many of the demonstrators were companies with technologies to improve advertising or broadband infrastructure providers including many utilizing compression technology. The long and short of it -- many of thes... more