
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: On road to GOP nomination
Iowans head for their Monday-evening caucuses in 39 days, and New Hampshire voters go to the polls for their primary in 47 days.
Iowans head for their Monday-evening caucuses in 39 days, and New Hampshire voters go to the polls for their primary in 47 days.
If Sam Rayburn knew what he was talking about 70 or so years ago, then U.S. Rep. French Hill surely is getting along very well in Congress these days.
An old white gentleman with an affinity for moderation and incrementalism in his politics as expressed in his antiquated practice of newspaper column-writing m…
Jason Rapert says an aide to Gov. Sarah Huckabee called and asked if he would be interested in serving on the state Library Board. He says he told the aide he'…
I may have come up with a plan to resurrect Razorback football, which is merely the dominant cultural influence of my time and place--my time being the last ne…
Republican-nominated federal judges have determined that, gosh darn, they had no choice.
Joe Biden is another year older, and Donald Trump is as transparently ridiculous as ever.
Amendment 33 to the state Constitution was ratified by the voters in 1942 for the surely naïve aim of keeping politics out of higher-education and prison matte…
Retired four-star Marine Corps General John Kelly, former chief of staff to Donald Trump as president, spoke to The Washington Post the other day with exaspera…
If you're the governor and your prison director is seeking to do your bidding but runs into resistance from the Board of Corrections, there are a couple of way…
State government seems to have discovered only lately that the buildings of the Arkansas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Arkansas School for…
When the ticket closed Tuesday for candidate filings, the state Democratic Party held a press briefing to announce its pulse.
Bubba McCoy, fielding an unusually early Thanksgiving call from me because I wanted to take his temperature on the football situation, said he thought it was, …
Asa Hutchinson told the Sunday episode of "Capitol View" on television station KARK-TV that an Iowa farmer had said to him that he was entirely too normal for …
Republican women vary. We have Sarah Sanders and Nikki Haley. We beheld their vivid contrast Wednesday evening.
Surely you feel it. There is something happening here. It is not exactly clear.
New polling suggests that Donald Trump might well defeat Joe Biden today in five of the six likely decisive states. But it also suggests that anyone else with …
It has been rough out there on the Republican presidential campaign trail for former Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
I cannot imagine how I know it, considering my proud insistence that I do not read online comments on these columns. I must have made a mouse slip the other da…
It seems unlikely that House Speaker Mike Johnson could deliver the presidency to a losing Donald Trump in January 2025. He would be stymied even if he thought…
The 25th annual Arkansas Poll is out from the University of Arkansas. It shows that Sarah Sanders is less approved-of than recent governors including her dad. …
Gov. Sarah Sanders explained the other day that the media used a failed business plan in asking her about a lawsuit accusing her of unlawful secrecy in her sto…
I do not attend many legislative committee meetings anymore.
Tom Emmer was acceptable as a Republican nominee for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, at least in the context that we were going to have to have a…
Closed-door maneuvering at the rich and powerful levels to mess with the Buffalo National River has run into a mighty mite from the past.
They opened a state-of-the-art specialty hospital on the rarefied upper east side of Manhattan. Its specialty was gynecology and obstetrics. They called it a w…
Searching last week for "muscular moderation," my new and futile obsession, I found instead French Hill and other mushiness.
For as long as he was city manager of Little Rock--a long time, 21 years--Bruce Moore heard with the rest of us that the city manager form of government was pa…
People wonder if Sarah Sanders is in political trouble owing to her attacks on freedom of information and growing public curiosities about the price and procur…
The vaunted LEARNS program is doing little more thus far than sending unneeded lifelines to vibrant and robust parents living in vibrant and robust areas.
The Arkansas purges of nearly a half-million Medicaid recipients over the last six months are not as draconian as they sound. Or at least we can certainly hope…
There is a grandstand-preening and arch-conservative former state senator whose name I seek to forget. And he never got it even though I tried diligently to ex…
"Absolutely. I think this is a great opportunity for our candidates."--Ronna McDaniel, national Republican chairwoman, when asked Saturday on Fox News to elabo…
Warning: This commentary comes from one who has come to abhor the two major American political parties--the Republicans more, of course, but the Democrats aple…
Gov. Sarah Sanders was talking at last about the lectern. A phrase kept coming to mind. It was "modified limited hangout."
It cannot happen. It would require today's politicians to vote with and for some in the opposing party in the interest of country over party.
So, I will tell you a story.
State Sen. Jimmy Hickey of Texarkana was hesitant in the recent special session to vote even for Gov. Sarah Sanders' final watered-down bill on weakening the F…
It sounds almost subversive in the context of the raging race-retro contemporary Arkansas political culture.
It's been a convulsive few days in Arkansas in matters of media and civility, or incivility. Let's run through it.
Asa Hutchinson hasn't lost the sense of humor I never really knew he had.
The Washington Post came out Sunday with a headline essentially saying it didn't believe its own poll that was conducted in partnership with ABC.
Arkansas politics has always been about rural working-class distrust and resistance of government that seemed tone-deaf and full of itself.
It's partly about whether you instinctively want to throw people off Medicaid because you think they ought to get up and go to work. I get that.
The moderate movement in America, an oxymoronic if not laughable phrase, reached its height in a single photograph taken in the early afternoon of June 24, 202…
Maybe you'd simply call it "An Amendment to the State Constitution to Guarantee Freedom of Information."
What a week it was. First Arkansas Republicans turned against their vaunted leader, Gov. Sarah Sanders. Then some of the several still-existent Democrats took …
It's huge for royalty to get rebuffed by a legislative body of commoners. And make no mistake. Queen Sarah lost.
The queen got the non-royal treatment.
An editorial in this newspaper Sunday considered disapprovingly Gov. Sarah Sanders' announcement of her intended evisceration of the state's Freedom of Informa…