OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: A surprise from Sarah
Some wiseacre posted on social media that Gov. Sarah Sanders would be doing a tryout for Donald Trump's running mate on "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning, an…
Some wiseacre posted on social media that Gov. Sarah Sanders would be doing a tryout for Donald Trump's running mate on "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning, an…
This will make three columns in a row dealing with Asa Hutchinson. He never soared so high as in utter political failure.
My favorite moment of Asa Hutchinson's quixotic and easily forgotten run for the Republican presidential nomination was the time he quoted Harold Melvin and th…
In the quadrennially overblown Iowa Republican caucuses, won in recent years by Presidents Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump succeeded ov…
It was a fair question, neither tough nor unfair in the least. It was challenging only to the extent that it asked Gov. Sarah Sanders to explain herself.
There is so much utter contrivance in Arkansas politics right now.
Thank goodness the founding fathers didn't have to run the Bill of Rights past Attorney General Tim Griffin.
It is the franchise and legacy of The Washington Post to give us those fly-on-the-wall recreations of private meetings of important political people discussing…
Gov. Sarah Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin lost another court case last week and shrugged their shoulders, at least figuratively.
Let's consider a bit of history and see if the cliché occurs to us naturally. I refer to the phrase made worn by truth about those who ignore history being doo…
We're now in the heat, such as it is, of the Republican presidential primary. Don't blink or you might miss it, like a tiny burg on an Arkansas highway.
Nikki Haley got asked last week to tell the cause of the Civil War. She did not mention the cause in her answer.
It's folly to presume to write a column predicting what will happen in a year just beginning, or anytime.
The big hearing scheduled Thursday in Pulaski Circuit Court on the state Corrections Board's standing up to Gov. Sarah Sanders was postponed.
Did you see that Politico summed up 2023 with a takeout on presidential wannabes who had good years and included Sarah Huckabee Sanders?
The proposed Arkansas abortion amendment is now the proposed Arkansas Abortion Amendment.
Editor's note: This is a revised and updated version of a column first appearing Christmas Eve 2015.
Gov. Sarah Sanders has decried President Joe Biden's "[playing] politics at Christmas."
Gov. Sarah Sanders seems to prefer derision to solution. So it's a happy Christmas for her.
Attorney General Tim Griffin is flirting with meddlesomeness in wielding his statutory authority to demand revisions in proposed constitutional amendments.
It would be a good exercise for any American. Imagine yourself as president of Harvard--or MIT or Penn. But let's say Harvard.
A report on the website of MSNBC described a "big get" for an organization with headquarters in Conway, Ark.
They had another Republican presidential debate the other night. It was most unpleasant. There were raw insults. There was personal ridicule. To call a foe mer…
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.