OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Those dirty, rotten votersRecent news events remind me of the conspicuous mid-American swath revealed by a map in The New York Times in November 2008.
The strip extended from Oklahoma through Arkansas and Tennessee and up to ...February 28, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Presidential dreamin'Decades ago, I thought no one from Arkansas could be elected president. Now I'm beginning to think that anyone from Arkansas might.
The thought as late as the 1980s was that Arkansas was too inconseq...February 25, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Grandstander on the stageA stout majority of state senators voted Monday to break federal law and sacrifice women and girls to rape and incest.
It was just another day at the office for modern Arkansas conservativism.
These...February 24, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Lagniappes and poison pillsIt happened in part from demographic migration and in part from lightning striking.
Now the issue is whether Democrats can govern as they won, by the skin of their teeth. We'll begin finding out this...February 23, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Leaving the cult behindArkansas Republicanism has become a Donald Trump cult.
A perfectly fine Karl Rove Republican such as Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin couldn't compete for governor for 2022 after Trump's former official falsifie...February 21, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Seeking a new charadeGov. Asa Hutchinson happened to be in the Oval Office with President Biden on Friday.
On that day, the Biden administration was notifying Arkansas and other affected states that they no longer could ...February 18, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Local politics? Not anymoreIt's way early, so plenty of time remains for someone demonstrating an interest in Arkansas to seek high Arkansas office on the state Republican ticket.
So far, the state's ticket-topping Republican ...February 17, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The path aheadThe left-of-center panelists on "This Week" on ABC got into a spat Sunday.
It was over the path Democrats should follow now that Republicans have disgraced themselves by defying the Constitution and ...February 16, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Which is the greater insult?A state senator should not refer to a colleague as a dumb-bleep, even if it's an arguable case, at least during formal Senate proceedings.
The more common practice is for one of the better senators t...February 14, 2021
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Bubba on the ballBubba McCoy matriculated at the hearts and dominoes table in the student union at Fayetteville in 1969 and 1970 before flunking out and having to get married.
How and why such an exemplary young woma...February 11, 2021
