Little Rock, circa 1910: "This is where we stayed last night. We didn t get here til 1:30." "That awful train was five hours late and slow, oh my stars I think I must write a sequel to A Slow Train Through Arkansaw. " The reference is to a 1903 book making fun of Arkansas. Hotel Marion was imploded in 1980 to make way for the convention center complex.
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ADL has renewed its call for the legislature to defeat SB 622, the sham
hate crimes bill.
The bill supposedly protects one and all, including neo-Nazis. It carries no sentence enhancement, only an 80 percent sentence requirement for early release. It doesn’t use the word hate. It lists no protected classes.
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The ADL is shouting into a mighty legislative wind that votes lockstep in favor of anything the religious lobby wants pro prayer, anti-abortion, anti-transgender, anti-welfare, pro-gun. (Isn’t the 2nd Amendment in the Bible, too?) But it keeps trying. Its statement on SB 622, which likely will be voted in the Senate Wednesday: