John Brummett

Recent stories by John Brummett

Asa waiting for his chance There was Asa Hutchinson grinning and spinning on the premium cable channel called Showtime, trying to stay on the balance beam with his routine posing a high level of difficulty. He seeks to emerge ... September 22, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Give 'em something to hate Back in the days when Democrats could do big things, by which I mean the 1930s and 1960s, presidents going by FDR and LBJ championed grand concepts known as the New Deal and the Great Society. They e... September 21, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: A car dealer knows Sometimes when I call over to talk with Bubba McCoy at Bubba's Auto Emporium east of here, I begin the conversation by asking, "So, how are things today for the Landers of the Delta?" Last week I beg... September 19, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Accustomed to madness The malignant Donald Trump presidency offered one benign effect. It devalued the insider political blockbuster book. No longer could a tell-all from Bob Woodward surprise or alarm. The surprise and a... September 16, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Test of faith in exemption I came up in the Church of Christ in the '60s, so I know about religious exemptions. We were against just about everything. So, in the seventh or eighth grade, I got my mom to write a letter to the s... September 15, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Someone's doing something Sarah Sanders has dipped into her Trump-network campaign millions for an opening television spot. It's about the goodness of Arkansas made evident when a president from here and her dad the then-gove... September 14, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The choices for Little Rock The Little Rock sales-tax election Tuesday reprises the competing admirable essences of the big mayoral runoff of 2018. We have Mayor Frank Scott's pulpit-styled expression of a big vision, of Little... September 12, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Soundbites, not symphonies Sarah Sanders finally has turned her attention to Arkansas by playing its people and media like dollar-store fiddles. She's riding across the state in a razorback-red converted food truck on what she... September 9, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Squandered opportunities Democrat-Gazette online A poll from ABC and the Washington Post came out Sunday showing President Biden's approval rating down from 50 in June to 44. His disapproval rating was 51, up nine points fro... September 8, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Texas trickery gets a wink Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, allowing Texas to get away with pulling a fast one. Just before midnight last Wednesday, the conservatized U.S. Supreme Court gave Texas the go-ahead for now on a sleight of... September 7, 2021