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John Brummett

Have older folks gone Republican?

One thing we very recently knew about American politics was that senior voters favored Democrats. Now maybe we can forget that.
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Don't do it, the Lord tells Huckabee

The only news from Mike Huckabee's predictably vintage political stunt Saturday night is that, for reasons undisclosed, the Good Lord did not want the Huckster to seek the presidency.
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Huckabee might run to stay on TV

He faces the prospect of maybe having to run again for president in order to re-up his brand for continued media/show biz viability.

Is that Ann Coulter or Alice Stewart?

What was the Arkansas secretary of state's spokesman doing on Hannity ridiculing the president and getting identified as some supposed Republican strategist?
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How do you get your news?

Here's a spin: More than twice as many Arkansans get their news from print as from the Internet. Take that.

Is 'Huckatrump' a monster for its time?

Their differences center on hair and cultural background. Otherwise Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump amount to the same prospective Republican presidential candidate.
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Morality and ethics

It is surely moral to seek a job that interests you so that you might attend to your future. But it might not be ethical, which is to say properly dutiful to the interests of integrity, both yours and that of the institution you represent.

The child comes last

Education issues ought to be decided every time, without exception, on the basis of what is best for a child.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammo

That was quite a productive little Friday morning they had in the state House of Representatives, voting to put guns in church and the Bible in school.

Democrats gesture toward Fayetteville

Considering that it now appears we might end up living with this wild concoction for the next 10 years, let us begin with a definition of terms.
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Big government wolves clad as small government sheep

A look at a few of the more than 2,000 new proposals from this session.

Socialized telephones

Government subsidies, corporate welfare, hypocrisy, AT&T and HB1525.

Huckabee behaving like a money-chasing celebrity

...rather than a serious candidate for president

What are highways for, anyway?

Whether one favors roads ought to depend on which roads.

Four points on Associate Justice Courtney Henry

Readers request Brummett's thoughts on the young judge's $100,000 gift disclosure.

Race is hard, but justice should not be

There is ripe and racially explosive criticism readily available for what you are about to read.

Such a pity, but we'll take it

State legislators seem quite proud of themselves for ethics legislation unveiled this week. That is altogether pitiful.

Who needs balance?

The cancer on our political dialogue is not incivility, but partisan stereotyping by which honest expression of independent thought is not permitted.

Taxpayers 1, tax receivers 0

Gov. Mike Beebe declared that his budget was as low it could go without forcing reductions in essential services. But then, only four days into the session, our newly Republicanized state Legislature found painless savings.

A highway tax increase? Seriously?

That is surely why House Speaker-designate Robert Moore of Arkansas City continues to talk about a highway tax program for this legislative session now upon us.
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