John Brummett

Recent stories by John Brummett

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Between rock and ... rock The American voters could not have been clearer in 2020. They gave 7.1 million more votes to Joe Biden than Donald Trump while they were trimming Nancy Pelosi's Democratic majority in the House of Re... August 1, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Poisoning the well I've heard of going down swinging, or even kicking and screaming, but Leslie Rutledge is going down sabotaging. The salty state attorney general had been confident she could dispose of Lt. Gov. Tim G... July 29, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The grace to stand Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the state's epidemiologist got shouted at Monday at a covid town-hall meeting in Mountain Home. The rudeness came from strong-lunged adherents of a school of paranoia that our... July 28, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: All praise to Trump! Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained to Fox News the other day that more people would get vaccinated against covid if the Democrats would kneel before her cult leader. In Sarah's world, everything is abo... July 27, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Gasket-blowing in progress Separate federal judges in Little Rock enjoined last week what until recently were the two very worst pieces of legislation enacted by the Legislature this year. It's become necessary now to call tho... July 25, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Friday night lights dim Are you ready for some football? So, get vaccinated, then. If that form of encouragement won't work, then nothing short of Donald Trump touring the state with a vaccine van, giving autographs for sho... July 22, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Asa Biden needed As Arkansas draws national attention as a backwater where a virus thrives among irresponsibly unvaccinated people, the state needs a leader falling somewhere between Asa Hutchinson and Joe Biden. Ala... July 21, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: So much for censoring ... The most popular post on Facebook on Friday and Saturday came from a woman whose name I decline to mention. I invoke her only because of the distressing relevance to today's topic--social-media irres... July 20, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Honest education to suffer In Oklahoma, a public school teacher could now get fired and a school could face a loss of accreditation if a white child went home after history class feeling bad about the nation's plainly racist pa... July 18, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: On the edge of the cliff If you venture so far to the right that you get past U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a Donald Trump cultist except for that one time, you'll find a narrow opening teetering on the dark cliffs of insanity. Yo... July 15, 2021