Columnists keep up efforts to destroy Republican Party
Regardless of the fact that Arkansas is over two-thirds Republican, as shown in recent elections, the Democrat-Gazette holds firm with a commitment to back all things Democrat and disparage anything Republican. That is the directive from their media masters in coastal areas of the country and their Democrat allies. They carefully follow the latest narrative dictated by the left-wing media, which is to destroy the Republican Party. Trump is gone, so the next goal is to remove the Republicans as a national entity.
The latest hero of the left is Jim Hendren. Greg Harton and John Brummett spent their Sunday columns making a saint out of the man who dared to be courageous and moral and leave the party. He is their idol against the evil empire.
Bloviating Brummett has to be the saddest man in Arkansas. His beloved party is barely an afterthought and his focus now is to attack our legislators with every breath. Tom Cotton, Asa, Leslie Rutledge, Sarah Sanders and everyone else affiliated with the right are his target. His tasteless attacks the past several years haven't changed many minds in our state. Of course the liberals in Little Rock and Fayetteville, and the increasing hordes of carpetbaggers in Northwest Arkansas, love him. The rest of us see liberals and left-wing loons as what they are. Glad you have to live with it.
Don Landrum
Eureka Springs
Editorial seems critical of helping businesses
The editorial "Wrong Medicine" in Sunday's paper seems like the paper was chastising Benton County Justice of the Peace Carrie Perrin Smith for wanting small businesses to open. A year has passed and many businesses have closed permanently; thousands upon thousands have lost jobs and their livelihood.
Owners of remaining businesses take the necessary precautions.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times editorial below the "Wrong Medicine" editorial was headlined "A humanitarian approach" and was about the Biden administration allowing asylum seekers into the United States. The last sentence of that article states: "At heart, the administration must adhere to a humane approach for new arrivals while working quickly to expand the immigration court system to meet the challenge."
How about "At heart, let businesses open and allow citizens go back to work?"
"At heart, open schools so children will learn how to learn and to socialize?"
I have not seen any discussion about the asylum-seekers getting covid tested before coming to America. Wouldn't it make better sense for struggling citizens to get back on their feet before allowing thousands of immigrants in? I dare you to check the requirements for Americans to live in Mexico and other countries.
Jacklyn Perry
Springdale