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Rules of engagement
From the fate of my mediocre fantasy football team to make the playoffs to the selection of jurors in criminal cases, the rules of the game are important in determining winners and losers in all...
View ArticleRavings from the right
Along with watching cable TV news terrorism coverage 24/7, some people appear to think it's your patriotic duty to run around with your hair on fire. Be afraid, be very afraid. Along with watching...
View ArticleThe case for gun regulation
The U.S. Supreme Court may not follow the election returns, as Finley Peter Dunne famously alleged, but it does follow the news, including the regular mass shootings and terror attacks over the past 20...
View ArticleThe search for welfare fraud
A major federal indictment last week passed with barely a peep from Arkansas politicians and scant notice from news media. A major federal indictment last week passed with barely a peep from Arkansas...
View ArticleThe Trump show
To anybody who watches cable TV news, it's clear that the nation has embarked upon a great political experiment. To anybody who watches cable TV news, it's clear that the nation has embarked upon a...
View ArticleAEC dumps ALEC
No matter which side of the battle over global warming you're on, that was blockbuster news last week. No, not the signing of the climate-change treaty that commits all of Earth's 195 nations to...
View ArticleThe Times fakes it
>In my experience, you can fool a golden retriever exactly twice with the old hidden ball trick. In my experience, you can fool a golden retriever exactly twice with the old hidden ball trick. Our...
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Trump shows need for a woman president
I was determined to take a break from writing about GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and then he went and pulled out the "schlong." I was determined to take a break from writing about GOP...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, but what about the new year?
Legislators and the governor rushed to get before TV cameras last week at a feel-good media event. Legislators and the governor rushed to get before TV cameras last week at a feel-good media event....
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Follow the money to Ecclesia, etc.
It is time — far past it, really — to revisit the General Improvement Fund (GIF), better known as the legislative slush fund or the surplus kitty, which the Arkansas Supreme Court declared eight years...
View ArticleFear vs. facts
It's funny how societal fear works (if your humor turns to the morbid). It can be in inverse proportion to the facts supporting it but in direct proportion to the heat of politics and the proximity of...
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The people's Arts Center
The Arkansas Arts Center may no longer be the state's top cultural institution, but it remains the capital city's major cultural hub, despite its manifest needs, including a bigger and better...
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No laughing matter
All three of the speakers at Sunday's memorial service for former Gov. and Sen. Dale Bumpers in Little Rock highlighted Bumpers' humor as a key to his political success. All three of the speakers at...
View ArticleNot again
This just in: Nothing boosts circulation or enhances ratings like a sex scandal. This just in: Nothing boosts circulation or enhances ratings like a sex scandal. The more prominent the actors and the...
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Smart growth? Not in LR
The Highway Department is one thing. It builds freeways. Alternative roadways, bike lanes, pedestrians and mass transit are low on its priority list. But you'd hope for better from Little Rock...
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Learn to love the Donald?
That vast sigh that swept over the land last weekend was not the latest El Nino manifestation, but the collective realization by the great Republican establishment that at long last it must learn to...
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Rainbow stew
Unpack your old tie-dyed T-shirts, roll yourself a fat doobie, and warm up the ancient VW bus. We're going to do Woodstock and the 1972 presidential election all over again. Unpack your old tie-dyed...
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For Hillary
In my estimation, there's only one presidential candidate in 2016 fully capable of doing the job, and she's anything but a natural. In my estimation, there's only one presidential candidate in 2016...
View ArticleIf Trump, Bernie are nominees
Here's a puzzler: What happens if the major parties nominate Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders for president? Here's a puzzler: What happens if the major parties nominate Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders...
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A big vote on a small tax
From Little Rock's vote on a bond program to expand the Arkansas Arts Center on Feb. 9 to votes for president and important state and local judgeships on March 1, voters across Pulaski County have...
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