Are the Razorbacks for real?

This disorder of mine probably should be taken up with a psychiatrist, but I'll confide in readers instead.Sometimes

05.11.2025 3

John Brummett

Dierks’ ‘Friday Night Lights’ get brighter

The remote mill town of Dierks, population 900-ish, a clearing in the pine woods of southwest Arkansas that both sides of my family came from, got...

03.11.2025 1

John Brummett

Billy Roy in your life and a mule on your lawn

It was a Saturday many years ago, and I was headed up the walkway to Nate Coulter's house to watch a televised ballgame, a Razorback football loss,...

31.10.2025 2

John Brummett

Trump-Sheen: Winning

Democrat-Gazette onlineCharlie Sheen is back in the news for a Netflix documentary, "aka Charlie Sheen," and a memoir, "The Book of Sheen."Donald

30.10.2025 4

John Brummett

On Trump and Argentina

President Donald Trump got condescendingly hostile on Air Force One last week with a reporter who was just doing her job. She asked what he had to say...

29.10.2025 3

John Brummett

Perception is everything

Today's offering adds context to a matter generating criticism for Gov.

27.10.2025 1

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Spin over the shutdown

The two parties are determined to tend to their interests by political spin and delay even at the expense of imminent public need.Take,

24.10.2025 3

John Brummett

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: First draft for our salvation

Democrat-Gazette onlineMonday was a particularly good day.

23.10.2025 60

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Bill of Rights? Meh …

It comes down, in Arkansas and surrounding states, to a choice.

22.10.2025 3

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No choice for the press

Dozens of Pentagon-assigned reporters turned in their badges and left the building Wednesday.Some

20.10.2025 2

John Brummett

Question left unanswered

The big Franklin County prison issue comes down to a clear and direct question that the governor's office hasn't answered.What

17.10.2025 4

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Doing the hard work of peace

Democrat-Gazette onlineDonald Trump tends to sully or devalue everything he touches, grabs or wins--business, politics, golf, the presidency, the...

16.10.2025 2

John Brummett

Loud and pointless politics

George Stephanopoulos and Vice President JD Vance got into it on ABC's Sunday-morning news show.

15.10.2025 3

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Praise for judicial principle

I'm a romanticizer of judgeship. I believe our nation inevitably hinges on judges who earn and get respect for principle, judicial discipline,...

13.10.2025 2

John Brummett

Everywhere a bailout …

Ashell game here and a bailout there and, before they know it, MAGA Republicans will meet themselves coming and going.They'll

10.10.2025 2

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On the street where I live

Democrat-Gazette onlineIt's the biggest neighborhood festival in the state, this Harvestfest in Hillcrest.

09.10.2025 2

John Brummett

Pulling together for Dierks

A small, remote Arkansas town finds itself in serious contention in a nationwide competition for a million-dollar upgrade in its high school football...

08.10.2025 3

John Brummett

Down to anemically naïve

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

06.10.2025 4

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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 3

John Brummett

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 3

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

Reason for celebration

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

26.09.2025 3

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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 3

John Brummett

Kimmel fracas a pattern

Jimmy Kimmel's transgression was real and severe.

22.09.2025 2

John Brummett

The ego, bruised, sues anew

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

19.09.2025 2

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

As the arrows fly

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

15.09.2025 3

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

Her Arkansas heart

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

11.09.2025 4

John Brummett

Authoritarianism redux

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

10.09.2025 10

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

Bubba holds forth

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

03.09.2025 3

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

The right math for Dems

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

25.08.2025 2

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

Season of hope and horror

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

18.08.2025 7

John Brummett

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

John Brummett

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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