Blanche Lincoln News

You can expect another bid by a bipartisan coalition of senators to amend the upcoming farm bill to get the Agriculture Department out of the business of inspecting catfish.

Federal Judge Susan Webber Wright has denied the state of Arkansas's motion to dismiss the ACLU-backed lawsuit challenging the new state law, passed over Gov.

Chris Matthews talks with Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman about the two sides to the Democrats' 2014 fight in the Senate against Republican opposition and gun safety advocates.

Oh, yay, now for the part where prominent Democrats get all irritated and cranky that other Democrats are, gasp, facing consequences for doing terrible no-good things.

Pop quiz, boys and girls: Name 17 other famous Arkansans, writes Ron Wolfe in Family about Steven Tesk's new children's book, Natural State Notables: 21 Famous People From Arkansas , new from Butler Center Books in Little Rock.

The fastest, surest way to get a laugh from Bill Halter is to observe that establishment Democrats don't merely dislike him, don't simply disdain him -- they revile him.

Mark Pryor of Arkansas is facing pressure from gun control groups who are urging him to rethink a position they suggest could haunt him during his re-election bid next year.

And in 2014, three of the six Senate seats in the South still in Democratic hands - in North Carolina, Arkansas and Louisiana - will be on the line, political analysts say, as all signs suggest those incumbents will be buffeted by significant political headwinds.

For decades, Republicans have been unrelenting in taking congressional seats away from Democrats in the South.