Arkansas’ Lotteries Continue to Grow in 2010
Yesterday we talked about the amount of money Arkansas’ lottery has fleeced from its people. Today I want to highlight that, once again, Arkansas’ lottery commission is back at work adding more lotteries.
The Lottery Through the Eyes of Us Chickens
No one seems to care where the $126.5 million dollars came from—the $126.5 “generated” by the Arkansas Lottery in 2009 that is. As if there was a money generator out behind the State Capitol spitting out twenty dollar bills day and night, Lt. Governor Bill Halter and the rest of the lottery cheering section act like it’s all free money! To hear them tell it, you’d think the $32 million they skimmed off for scholarship money was from a pot of gold at the end of some rainbow.
A 1968 Christmas Story
“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Never had human beings read God’s word from so far away. Never had so many people listened. On December 24, 1968, I was a teenager captivated by a live TV broadcast all the way from the moon. My family and I joined nearly one-quarter of all human beings on the earth that night as we turned our eyes heavenward and our thoughts toward God.