Jim Holt (born 1965) is a conservative Republican politician from Springdale, Arkansas. He was born in Camden in Ouachita County. He attended the University of Maryland in College Park for pre-med, but never finished.[1] 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Springdale is a city located in Washington and Benton counties in Arkansas. ... Camden is a city located in Ouachita County, Arkansas. ... Ouachita County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in College Park, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., USA. As the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, the university is most often referred to as the University of Maryland...

He served in the Arkansas House from 2001-2003 and the Arkansas Senate from 2003-2005. He ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Blanche Lincoln for United States Senate in 2004. He polled 44 percent of the vote. // In politics The incumbent, in politics, is the current holder of a political office. ... Blanche Lambert Lincoln (born September 30, 1960) is a Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. ... Seal of the Senate The Senate of the United States of America is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2005 he announced his candidacy for the office of lieutenant governor and won the Republican nomination on May 24, 2006 against two other opponents[2]. Incumbent Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, a fellow Republican, but one much more liberal than Holt, did not seek reelection due to term limits. Rockefeller died on July 16, 2006. Holt now faces the Democrat Bill Halter. A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Winthrop Paul Win Rockefeller (September 17, 1948 – July 16, 2006) was Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1996 until his death. ... Bill Halter lives in Little Rock, Arkansas and is currently running for lieutenant governor. ...

Background

Holt joined the military in 1987 and served in the U.S. Army Joint Intelligence Operations at the National Security Agency under the Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, and Bill Clinton.[3] His website notes he "was involved in highly classified operations during the Cold War, the ousting of Noriega from Panama, and Operation Desert Storm."[4] NSA seal The National Security Agency / Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is believed to be the largest United States government intelligence agency[citation needed]. It is responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and for the security of U.S. government communications against similar agencies elsewhere. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan, (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... Order: 41st President Term of Office: January 20, 1989–January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts Date of death: Place of death: First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican Vice President: Dan Quayle George... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

In 1996, he became an ordained Southern Baptist minister and is married and is the father of nine children.[5] The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ...

Criticism and controversy

In April 2001, Holt had creationist Kent Hovind speak before a committee at Arkansas House of Representatives.^[1] Using widely debunked data from Jonathan Wells' "Icons of Evolution" work and Hovind, Holt aimed to promote intelligent design and question the validity of evolution. Hovind's "education" is from Patriot Bible University, an unaccredited correspondence school, and he is currently charged with 58 felony counts.[6][7] Like Hovind, Wells work is considered pseudoscience. Moreover Wells is connected to the controversial Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, and Discovery Institute. The bill (House Bill 2548) pushed through the house ultimately failed. [8] Kent Hovind Kent E. Hovind (born 15 January 1953) is an American Young Earth Creationist (YEC) evangelist who is currently offering US$250,000 to anyone who can prove evolution is the only possible way that the universe and life arose, although his numerous critics consider the challenge to be... John Corrigan Jonathan Wells is a biologist and Fellow of the Discovery Institutes Center for Science and Culture. ... Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. ... A hypothetical phylogenetic tree of all extant organisms, based on 16S rRNA gene sequence data, showing the evolutionary history of the three domains of life, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. ... Patriot Bible University is an independent, unaccredited Christian-based religious Bible correspondence school providing college level courses located in Del Norte, Colorado. ... Phrenology is regarded today as being a classic example of pseudoscience. ... Sun Myung Moon in 2005. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Discovery Institute is a conservative Christian think tank[1], structured as a non-profit educational foundation, founded in 1990 and based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Its areas of interest, social and political action include intelligent design, public school education, and transportation and bi-national cooperation in the international Cascadia...

References

1. ^ Don Michael, "The Hovind connection: Check your facts, legislators." Northwest Arkansas Times. April 05, 2001

External Links

• Jim Holt's Official Website