Opinion and Letters

Comes word that the authorities in New York City will begin removing more mentally ill people from the streets there. Mayor Eric Adams (a Democrat, for the rec…

If you really want to destroy the United States:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Federal Reserve got some bad news on the service sector, one of the last redoubts of stubbornly high inflation in the U.S. That's fueling further speculati…

Its concrete walls feel like a bomb shelter, which probably makes sense due to the wars often raging within. In night's darkness almost 10 days ago, I stood si…

Outcomes matter, especially when they come to life or death. Tuesday marks the 1,000th day of covid in Arkansas. It was first identified in the state on March …

A few observations on the political scene:

The decline and fall of higher education starts with local school boards, less skilled administrators, apathetic parents and unions more skilled at improving t…

When I was a girl, back when hippies and Yuppies strolled the earth, a club for people trying to stop taking the Lord's name in vain posted a flyer on a church…

How about that word last week, huh? Who knew that "neat" was also a noun and referred to cows? That was a toughie. Let's play with a less sneaky word.

This is my 1,000th column published since August 2002. I had planned on retiring when I reached 1,000 columns, but I have decided to delay my departure until t…

I'm not of the opinion that we all need to disclose everything all the time.

How does a democracy protect itself against a political leader who is openly hostile to democratic self-rule? This is the dilemma the nation faces once again a…

Last March I wrote a piece about leaving my beloved spiritual home, the Southern Baptist Church, and how painful it was, like a death. The hegira happened over…

The Conway school board created a kerfuffle recently when it said no to leftist dogma and soundly adopted several conservative common-sense policies. The board…