Down to anemically naïve

Who says politicians don't tell the truth?U.S.

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Without saying a thing

Gov. Sarah Sanders can be a little sneaky, but, if caught, she can be counted on to put out a written statement that won’t say anything.She

03.10.2025 2

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Heading for a loss … again

There are a couple of sound and even compelling reasons for Democrats to let the government stay open.

02.10.2025 2

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Memoirs of a hogaholic

My first Razorback football memory is of a mere moment.

01.10.2025 2

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Notes on free expression

Let's tidy up the Jimmy Kimmel thing, not that you can ever really tidy up the horrid disgrace of your dreadful president and his mad cult literally...

29.09.2025 2

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Reason for celebration

Donald Trump was personally rebuffed twice in two working days--Friday and Monday.

26.09.2025 1

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A lesson in redirecting anger

Democrat-Gazette onlineSarah Sanders is a slick politician, which might explain why you're mad at health-insurance companies for proposing to raise...

25.09.2025 3

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The moral of the story

The time seems right to retell the story of my fifth-grade teacher at Baseline Elementary School in southwest Little Rock.I

24.09.2025 2

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Kimmel fracas a pattern

$Kimmel fracas a pattern$

Jimmy Kimmel's transgression was real and severe.

22.09.2025 2

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The ego, bruised, sues anew

In these dark times for American politics, we must take time for humor.Thus,

19.09.2025 2

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Competition not always the answer

Democrat-Gazette onlineSo far, the main thing the LEARNS school voucher program has done is send taxpayer money to private-school parents and...

18.09.2025 3

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Can this country be saved?

I got asked on a television program over the weekend how it was that America got better after the assassinations, violence and social unrest of the...

17.09.2025 9

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As the arrows fly

We didn't get around to the traditional Labor Day weekend arrows.

15.09.2025 3

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To play, or not to play

There is an old story about a man asking the newspaper opinion-writer what he was writing about.

12.09.2025 4

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Her Arkansas heart

Democrat-Gazette onlineI didn't know Gov. Sarah Sanders cared.

11.09.2025 4

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Authoritarianism redux

The headline on this column in Sunday's edition said, "Thus lies authoritarianism."

10.09.2025 10

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Thus lies authoritarianism

You can't write every time about the outrage of Donald Trump and the threat to democracy that he suggests by his rhetoric, behavior, practices and...

08.09.2025 5

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The plight of the farmers

Hallie Shoffner, the farmer's daughter and forced liquidator of her family farm who is championing farmers' interests as a Democratic candidate for...

05.09.2025 3

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Back when people cared

Democrat-Gazette onlineState Rep. Jodie Mahony was arguing to the House State Agencies Committee--it seemed not seriously, but sarcastically--that...

04.09.2025 5

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Bubba holds forth

"Moderate, my [blank]," Bubba McCoy said by way of hello.

03.09.2025 3

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Booze with a side of politics

She didn't drink but she'd run across five boxes of booze she'd like to bring over.

01.09.2025 6

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Idiocy on flag-burning

They say Donald Trump is a master of political manipulation by which he keeps the nation's short-term attention span diverted by a barrage of...

29.08.2025 3

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Developments in American dysfunction

Democrat-Gazette onlineIt proves harder by week if not day to rank the dire threats to the country raised by news developments.

28.08.2025 3

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Essense of retribution

They should have listened to me though I did not know what I was talking about. I am more proud than embarrassed—though I am some of both in...

27.08.2025 4

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The right math for Dems

I'm moderate as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

25.08.2025 2

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Dems on hard road ahead

The state Democratic Party faced an interesting choice last weekend for a new chairperson.For

22.08.2025 3

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Nostalgia not all it’s cracked up to be

Democrat-Gazette onlineIn some ways it would be wonderful to go back 60 years to 1965.On

21.08.2025 5

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On core American values

We could rewrite the Ten Commandments and post that rewrite in the public schools and it could be perfectly fine with the U.S.

20.08.2025 3

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Season of hope and horror

This is the best of seasons and worst of seasons.It's

18.08.2025 7

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Boondoggle-or-bust

Based on how I once understood politics--meaning at a time early this century when the phrase "President Donald Trump" would have been laughable--this...

15.08.2025 5

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Seeking new ‘Sister Souljah moment’

Democrat-Gazette onlineAs a Democratic candidate for president in 1992, Bill Clinton came out against Black people setting aside a week to shoot white...

14.08.2025 4

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Look behind the curtain

It was a classic demonstration of brazen grandstanding by one of the world's great practitioners, Gov.

13.08.2025 2

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The problem of ‘they’

We're inching toward another inevitable period of government-shutdown brinkmanship, if not on this occasion an actual plunge over the cliff.But

11.08.2025 4

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Run over by a church bus

Today's eventual subject will be the blatant unconstitutionality of making a law, now enjoined by a federal judge, mandating that the Ten Commandments...

08.08.2025 3

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State Dems show signs of life

Democrat-Gazette onlineWe saw a flurry of Arkansas Democratic activity in recent days.

07.08.2025 4

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Respect free expression

The time will come over the next month or so for Gov.

06.08.2025 4

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Err on side of competition

The Arkansas Legislature doesn't need even to be remotely bipartisan to get things done.

04.08.2025 4

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Do-gooders on heroic quest

How hard is it for the people of Arkansas to get merely a chance to vote on a law they propose by their own initiative? And just how confounding are...

01.08.2025 7

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Democratic brand in need of redesign

Democrat-Gazette onlineThe Ford Pinto was a subcompact car in the 1970s that was unattractive and had a problem with catching fire on rear impact...

31.07.2025 8

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LEARNS questions abound

Leading state policymakers praise the LEARNS Act while pooh-poohing concerns about unexpected levels of participation in this first full operational...

30.07.2025 9

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Re-entry idea a solid option

A couple of people in or around what I'll call the corrections community--not that they're in prison, but that they're in the incarceration...

28.07.2025 3

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Love, Arkansas-style

Note to readers: The Howard County Elberta peaches showed up on the porch a little early this year. But it's never too early to rerun this ode to them...

25.07.2025 5

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Frank as a friend

The column Sunday came off harsher toward the late Gov.

24.07.2025 2

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If it walks like a duck …

In media and entertainment, nothing once big is big anymore.

23.07.2025 2

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White ahead of his time

The voters get to decide what to teach kids in school, and they do that through the kinds of politicians they elect.That's

21.07.2025 5

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Atop the balance beam

Let me take a shot at a candid, paraphrased summation of the welcomed announcement Tuesday in a YouTube video by 37-year-old farmer advocate Hallie...

18.07.2025 2

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Health-care deserts coming

Democrat-Gazette onlineArkansas health care in poor rural areas, which account for the preponderance of acreage in the state, is reported to be...

17.07.2025 4

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Coordinated counterattack

The Arkansas Constitution is a jumbled mess.

16.07.2025 7

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Bubba goes on a tear

Bubba McCoy answered the phone, and I asked whether he'd had a good July 4 holiday.

14.07.2025 3

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Practical compassion

It's not as simple as right versus left.

11.07.2025 10

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