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Not Democrats' fault Ryan Norris wrote a guest column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In it, he calls the shutdown the "Schumer shutdown" and blames...

wednesday 2

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OTHERS SAY: Can Texas lawmakers learn from ‘satanic’ image?

Dirty tricks are a staple of election season, including the use of misleading visuals now easily created with artificial intelligence. The Texas...

wednesday 3

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CAL THOMAS: Time for the Right in this country to clean house

Conservatives--true conservatives, as in the Ronald Reagan brand--have a problem. The movement has been invaded by the "alt-right" (alternative...

wednesday 5

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EDITORIAL: Fili-bluster

"I think we should eliminate the filibuster for 'Roe.'

wednesday 2

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Obfuscate, inflame The Democrats want to give health care to illegal immigrants, so said Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. These types of banner...

04.11.2025 1

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When West Point mules moved to Arkansas

In the fall of 2001, the Army had a problem. More specifically, its venerated institution, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was facing a...

04.11.2025 7

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OTHERS SAY: Harvard inflates grades, deflates reputation

"My kid's getting As at Harvard" isn't much of a flex anymore, thanks to a report from the erstwhile Ivy League institution admitting that roughly 60...

04.11.2025 3

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Biden ‘checked out,’ Trump fit as a fiddle?

In the midst of a time when we seem all too happy to reduce health-care benefits and deny emergency SNAP funds to feed 41.7

03.11.2025 2

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EDITORIAL: ‘Her’ is here: AI sells friendship to the lonely

During the pandemic, when there was little to do, we went on something of a movie binge, and came across a Spike Jonze movie called "Her."

03.11.2025 1

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Stop the desecration Is anyone in our Republican-led Congress disturbed in the slightest by the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, with...

03.11.2025 1

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Confessions of a Walmart shopper

Since my wife had a stroke (She is very slowly improving, but still bedridden.) I have done all the grocery shopping, and if my list is simple such as...

03.11.2025 2

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Welfare policies don’t prevent harm

Children who have already been victimized should never be placed in another abusive or neglectful home by the state. Yet several recent cases raise...

03.11.2025 1

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America’s 1920s immigration mistake

The New York Times recently reported that the Trump administration is "considering a radical overhaul" of the refugee system in the U.S. that would,...

03.11.2025 10

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From wild to domesticated abundance

Amanda Trulock’s early letters from Arkansas (1845-1849) carry a distressed tone. There was the matter of her husband’s debt, and his ambitions...

03.11.2025 3

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What is blockchain?

This is not reading material for kindergarteners. It is, however, for the benefit of kindergarteners and other young people who will live in a world...

03.11.2025 1

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About compromise More than a few experts, local and national, have suggested that we need "centrists" from both sides to come together and find areas...

02.11.2025 2

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Stand up, speak out for our nation against despotism

On Oct. 18, approximately 7 million patriots gathered across the globe and here in Arkansas to protest an out-of-control president who seeks...

02.11.2025 1

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OTHERS SAY: NBA scandal was predictable

Everyone saw this coming, except the NBA. And yet, when news broke last week about FBI arrests, including a current NBA head coach and player, those...

02.11.2025 2

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COLUMNIST: Your protein powder isn’t poisoning you

Don't toss out your protein powder just yet. A recent report about lead levels in protein supplements sparked unnecessary alarm about a product that...

02.11.2025 2

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EDITORIAL: The Cravens (with apologies to E.A. Poe)

Once upon a midnight dreary, while he pondered a novel theoryAbout how many Reese's Cups the children had a-store,His wife there nodded, completely...

02.11.2025 2

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OPINION | DRIVETIME MAHATMA: Buckle up, there’s more widening of Cantrell Road coming

Mr. Mahatma: When is ARDOT going to start on the next phase of widening Cantrell Road from Taylor Loop to where they left off below Pleasant Ridge?...

02.11.2025 2

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Not supporting idle Am I the only one who can't understand the uproar over not getting government assistance for food stamps, rent assistance,...

01.11.2025 1

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Constitution is clear: Due process is not optional

In my nearly three decades of teaching introductory U.S. Government to undergraduates at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, I often used a story...

01.11.2025 10

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The evolution of the Halloween spirit

Even though "Meet Me in St. Louis" was conceived and produced as a Hollywood musical, there's nobody singing during one of its most prominent and...

01.11.2025 3

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UA System adapting to changing higher-ed landscape

Public higher education in Arkansas and across the nation faces growing challenges: shifting demographics that affect enrollment, declining public...

01.11.2025 3

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EDITORIAL: Pete Hegseth tries to keep Pentagon incommunicado

Republicans in Congress might not want to cross the president, but many of them don't have the same problem with crossing the secretary of Defense.

01.11.2025 2

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COLUMNIST: If Donald Trump can run for a third term, so can Obama

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, speculation has swirled that he would try for a third term in 2028. His acolytes...

01.11.2025 1

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EDITORIAL: Eat, drink, be scary, which is easy enough this Halloween during a chocolate crisis

Why, if we knew you were coming, we would've cleaned up the dungeon.Please,

01.11.2025 3

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On Trump's ballroom Americans spend $300 million per day at their local coffee shops. We spend $115 billion per year on beer (beer, not liquor). It is...

31.10.2025 3

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OPINION | TODD MAXSON: Trauma care saved my life; Congress must protect it

When I helped design Arkansas' trauma system 15 years ago, I never imagined I'd one day be a patient whose life depended on it. In 2009, after...

31.10.2025 6

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Consider the lithium

Back when alternative fuels were being promoted as the next wave of clean transportation, the joke was that "hydrogen is the fuel of the future--and...

31.10.2025 2

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So we skip a year

We believe it was George Lynn Cross, once-president of the University of Oklahoma, who said he was trying to build a university of which the football...

31.10.2025 2

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OTHERS SAY: The break-up

Donald Trump appears to have finally fallen out of love with Vladimir Putin, which is good news, a long time coming. If you cut through all of the...

30.10.2025 2

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COLUMNIST: Obamacare is not the reason for the shutdown

Don't believe the headlines. The government shutdown is not about Obamacare. That's just the pretext. The shutdown is a tactic employed by the...

30.10.2025 3

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EDITORIAL: Feel the Earth, move, under your feet—University of Arkansas might make a difference in earthquake prep

Call it Earth-shattering news if you want, but for a state that seems to always find itself at the bottom of various lists nationwide, we never cease...

30.10.2025 2

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STAR PARKER: Putting welfare over our national security

Few speak the truth as clearly and succinctly as House Speaker Mike Johnson. Appearing on ABC's "This Week," co-host Jonathan Karl challenged the...

30.10.2025 9

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EDITORIAL: Telephone lines: Arkansas cellphone bill’s common sense approach

Turns out that taking cellphones away from kids in schools is working.

30.10.2025 3

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Letters

Drama over addition Oh, the drama trauma over an East Wing ballroom addition to the White House. The east and west wings of the White House are...

30.10.2025 2

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Pay for performance Big-time college football is unsustainable under the current financial model. It starts with the insane contracts offered coaches...

29.10.2025 1

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COLUMNIST: You better, you better, you bet

The NCAA picked a hell of a week to get into the gambling business, didn't it? Within 24 hours of approving a rule change that will allow student...

29.10.2025 1

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CAL THOMAS: I bet you knew this would happen

In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow...

29.10.2025 1

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EDITORIAL: Here’s to Fox News

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun."...

29.10.2025 2

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Support health care Concerning the shutdown battle in Congress over continuing subsidies for health care: During President Donald Trump's campaign for...

28.10.2025 2

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AI and IT

Jobs and college enrollments in computer science grew considerably over the period from 2008-2025; job downturns began in 2022 including fewer job...

28.10.2025 1

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OTHERS SAY: Turn on the cameras, ICE! What’s taking you so long?

Thanks to U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, we've finally learned something about what Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol...

28.10.2025 2

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Oil’s well that ends well

American drivers will be happy to hear that oil prices have dropped by 19 percent.

28.10.2025 1

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LESLIE RUTLEDGE: Cooking up a trade win

President Trump calls China's abrupt refusal to buy American soybeans an "economically hostile act." He's right. It's market warfare. Zeroing in on a...

28.10.2025 2

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The trill is gone

This past week the American government finally did it: The feds--representatives of all of us--have gone into debt by a record $38 trillion.Some

28.10.2025 2

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Athletically allergic

We heard somebody in the gym say the other day that their favorite exercise was a cross between a lunge and a crunch.

27.10.2025 1

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What is your retirement age?

The human body is not a piece of machinery that shuts down when its warranty is up.

27.10.2025 1

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