The line is open. Closing odds and ends:

* TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY: The House meets into the evening. Another vote tonight on the Insurance Department? Don’t know.

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* HUCK PROMOTES ‘GUNPOINT’ LEARNING: Though someone tried to scrub it, a watchdog group has captured Mike Huckabee saying on video that Americans should be indoctrinated “at gunpoint” to learn Christian supremacist history from bogus historian and religionist David Barton. No guns needed in Hot Springs. David Barton is already God over the First Church of Hot Springs, otherwise known as the mayor’s church home at First Church of the Nazrene.

* DORM INCIDENT: A couple of female UA athletes were arrested after a fight in a dormitory.

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* ELEVATORS: Rep. Barry Hyde recalled his bill to exempt state elevators in the Capitol area from the state elevator safety law. He didn’t explain. Perhaps it’s to narrow the bill down to only the cause of the legislation — an aging freight elevator in the Capitol Hill Apartments where many legislators live that can no longer qualify for waivers from state safety rules. This is Secretary of State Mark Martin’s bill to simply his oversight of the Capitol Hill building.

* CHARTER SCHOOLS: Reps. Tracy Steele and John Walker fought the good fight, unsuccessfully, against the charter school expansion bill. They aren’t against charter schools. They are against the concerted effort to tear down good Pulaski County schools. Rep. Ann Clemmer of white flight Bryant is carrying the Waltons baggage on this bill. There was a time when she admitted how poor Bryant schools were. Now, it’s all about the failing Pulaski County schools. Nothing like money and prevailing winds to change your outlook. It passed 55-28. The state continues to repudiate its solemn vow not to contribute to segregation in Pulaski County schools. Walmart flunky Clemmer also carried the bill to make it easier to create charter schools. This is the bill Sen. Jiimmy Jeffress, the Senate Education Committee chair, decided he wanted no part of. Champagne’s on Luke Gordy. Ann can tell you where it’s being poured.

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* WOMEN LEGISLATORS: A program is set at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Capitol to honor all the women who’ve served in the Arkansas legislature. 30 of the 135 seats are held by women this year. Some of the history of female service is on the jump.

* INTERNET SALES TAX: The House completed action today on the bill to attempt to apply the state sales tax to some Internet purchases. Opponents debate how effective it will be, but it’s a step toward fairness for in-Arkansas retailers. Walmart needs government help, doesn’t it?

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* WASHINGTON STYLE: Gov. Beebe decries the “Washington-style” government that has arrived in Little Rock. He means a handful of zealots willing to trash important government services with a minority roadblock on account of ideological fervor. Yes.

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