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The line between tacky and crooked
Mike Huckabee's most vigorous and able nemesis in Arkansas is the unabashedly liberal and uncommonly activist editor of the weekly free tabloid in Little Rock. - Thursday, Nov 15, 2007

Passionate centrist can see Hillary vs. Huckabee
Al From came through Little Rock last week. His Democratic Leadership Council was holding a retreat for selected young Democratic officeholders from around the country at the Clinton Presidential Center. - Tue, Nov 13, 2007

Venus, Mars and picking on Hillary
I don't understand women. - Mon, Nov 12, 2007

Once upon a January night
You're watching television on the cold night of Jan. 3, only 53 days from now. - Sun, Nov 11, 2007

Praising Huckabee to Democrats
They called from the office at 6:07 p.m. Thursday. They said a room at state Democratic headquarters was packed with Democratic women. - Sat, Nov 10, 2007

Arrows, but no Bubba
A woman walked up to me in stern and business-like fashion the other day and said these few words: "Arrows and the Tote-the-Note guy. - Thu, Nov 08, 2007

Sheffield Nelson righting wrongs
Sheffield Nelson, former gas company executive and twice failed Republican gubernatorial candidate, announced Friday that he will lead a campaign for an initiated act on the general election ballot in 2008. - Tue, Nov 06, 2007

Pro-life, pro-gun liberal
It's always not so much what Mike Huckabee does as what he says. - Mon, Nov 05, 2007

Pro-life, pro-gun liberal
It's always not so much what Mike Huckabee does as what he says. - Sun, Nov 04, 2007

Fort Knox of Billaryland
Hillary Clinton says that release of her White House records is wholly up to the National Archives and out of her hands. - Sat, Nov 03, 2007

Surging in Iowa, if not at home
From time to time, some of the political science professors at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville conduct their "Arkansas Poll. - Thu, Nov 01, 2007

Annual trek to an open mind
One of the highlights of the year comes each fall with the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, now 16 years old and aptly calling itself a "passport to open minds. - Tue, Oct 30, 2007

Insights from a small state
Being a longtime political writer in the little Southern state of Arkansas positions one for a couple of insights into presidential politics. - Mon, Oct 29, 2007

Fallout from that column
We try to address important matters in this space. We weigh the pros and cons of a state lottery. - Sun, Oct 28, 2007

Another false choice on immigration
Mainly and generally, there are two ways to look at illegal immigration. - Sat, Oct 27, 2007

Lottery questions, good and bad
Disapproval dribbled in after my endorsement last week of Lt. Gov. - Thu, Oct 25, 2007

Bill Clinton saving the world
Now that Jimmy Carter and Al Gore have won the Nobel Peace Prize, can Bill Clinton be far behind? - Tue, Oct 23, 2007

Bush's latest banner - funniest yet
George W. Bush brought his self-caricature to the Republican-friendly northwest corner of Arkansas last week. - Mon, Oct 22, 2007

Why Nutt should go
Have you grown weary waiting for the typewriter jocks to lay out precisely why Houston Nutt ought to be run plumb out of the state? - Sun, Oct 21, 2007

Metaphor Mike rides again
Mike Huckabee has told us of his lifelong tendency to make arguments in metaphors, sometimes getting himself in trouble. - Sat, Oct 20, 2007

A lottery - considering the odds
Let me give you the lowdown from Gov. Mike Beebe on a state-run lottery for college scholarships. - Thu, Oct 18, 2007


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