State of Arkansas Archives: on Homeland Security

Dan Whitfield: Invest in the VA: education on bases for soldiers' children

Mark West: Military expansion results in international police

A: Oppose; our military can remain the strongest force in the world without being expanded. Our military expansion always results in our troops being the international police at our expense and has also led to the militarization of our police forces.

Conner Eldridge: Ensure stable military and VA funding

• Fix the broken Department of Veteran Affairs. Conner's plan includes building a more efficient and effective system, holding VA officials accountable and ensuring leaders have the ability to fire employees.
• Expand and improve the "Veteran's Choice Act" to every Veteran in the country. A program that allows any Veteran the freedom to be treated at any hospital he or she chooses.
• Expand job training opportunities and assistance for all Veterans.
• Fight to ensure the "Post 9/11 GI Bill" receives full funding from our Congress.
• End Veteran homelessness in America.
• Ensure stable military and VA funding so that our troops and our veterans receive every benefit he or she is entitled to and aren't victims of a broken, dysfunctional Congress.
• Stop the alarmingly high number of suicides among our troops and veterans by building bipartisan efforts to expand mental health treatment across our Armed Forces.

Curtis Coleman: AdWatch: Boozman voted to curtail civil liberties; I won't

In his video, Coleman attacks Boozman's voting record and calls it one of the "worst on record." He ties a number of Boozman's votes to President Barack Obama's agenda and said he "voted to curtail civil liberties."

"John is an incredibly nice person, but we don't need someone to go to the Senate to be Barack Obama's best friend. We need someone to be Tom Cotton's wingman," Coleman said.

Coleman mentioned in his video that Boozman got an "F" on his liberty score from Conservative Review. Wrapping up, Coleman said that if he gets elected, he'll be Arkansas' "pro-civil liberties" senator.

Curtis Coleman: Oppose unconstitutional activities by the NSA

Nathan LaFrance: Meta-data collection of phone records is unconstitutional

Revelations about current NSA domestic spying programs, being run under the direction of the Obama Administration, have shown an almost complete disregard for our Constitutional rights.

Contrary to administration claims, large-scale meta-data collection of Americans' phone records is a violation of privacy. Through this meta-data, the federal government has access to a tremendous amount of personal information on innocent Americans, including who we speak to, how often we speak with people, where we are located when we make or receive calls and the duration of our calls.

New details continue to emerge on other NSA programs, such as email and internet monitoring. As Americans, we must stand NOW and fight for our rights. Nathan LaFrance will fight to reign in the NSA.

Tom Cotton: AdWatch: No sense of entitlement from serving in military

Cotton denied having any "sense of entitlement" from serving in the military, saying, "I certainly didn't learn one chasing after cattle on the farm. And the last thing my drill sergeant taught me was a sense of entitlement." Cotton said he joined the military after the Sept. 11 attacks and is a strong advocate for veterans, praising the intangible skills of vets like leadership to employers.

In attack ads, Pryor has accused Cotton of being too extreme, which Cotton countered with Pryor's support of the healthcare law: "The only that's extreme is casting the decisive vote for ObamaCare five years ago and still standing by it today," he said.

Blanche Lambert Lincoln: Seniority concerns shouldn’t outweigh intelligence decisions

HOLT: Holt said he trusts Bush’s decisions and recommendations when it comes to homeland security.

Jim Holt: Trust Bush’s homeland security decisions and recommendations

HOLT: Holt said he trusts Bush’s decisions and recommendations when it comes to homeland security.