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Holiday weekend arrows
You know the holiday weekend drill. We fire arrows to reflect the supposed conventional wisdom. - Saturday, Jul 5, 2008

How Lu Hardin didn't get a raise
Sometimes it's enough merely to tell the story. Readers may judge for themselves. - Thu, Jul 03, 2008

Warming the globe, protecting the economy
Environmental protection offers little to no political premium in Arkansas. - Tue, Jul 01, 2008

Whose Christianity? Which?
Barack Obama has been caught red-handed espousing an expansive rather than restrictive view of Christianity. - Mon, Jun 30, 2008

Book broker to the rescue
There's this lawyer in Washington who pretty much runs everything in that incestuous little company town where they do public service for personal profit. - Sun, Jun 29, 2008

When taxpayers buy publicity
This is too rich. It's about blurring news and advertising in the news media. - Sat, Jun 28, 2008

Challenge of the junior featherweight
Our junior columnist here at the Arkansas News Bureau - David Sanders, a former low-level aide to Mike Huckabee - publicly took me to task the other day. - Thu, Jun 26, 2008

Secret government for jobs
In the 1990s Little Rock boosters worried that Bill Clinton might not put his presidential library in the city because the local newspaper was editorially unfriendly to the president. - Tue, Jun 24, 2008

Republicans without demons?
In his new role as an election commentator for Fox News, Mike Huckabee will need to beat what he pulled the other day in Japan, where he was giving speeches for hire. - Mon, Jun 23, 2008

Great, if not spectacular, in Conway
So the big Hewlett-Packard announcement for Conway wasn't software development. - Sun, Jun 22, 2008

Give me real suspense, not Indiana
So the better half and I and the two pals ventured the other day to see Indiana Jones and the hunt for the quartz brain or something like that. - Sat, Jun 21, 2008

Conway's 'watershed' event
When news leaked Monday that computer giant Hewlett-Packard would open a facility in Conway, three people instantly came to mind. - Thu, Jun 19, 2008

Huckabee's smart TV route
Sometimes some of us are too hard on Mike Huckabee, not that it appears to constrain him much. - Tue, Jun 17, 2008

Obama reaches for military cover
The chatter about Barack Obama's consideration of a running mate is getting kind of interesting, even disregarding Hillary Clinton. - Mon, Jun 16, 2008

How Hillary failed
People have been asking. So how did Hillary Clinton manage to lose? - Sun, Jun 15, 2008

Arkansas gets a lottery
We have the pending matter for November of whether voters will approve a lottery for college scholarships. - Sat, Jun 14, 2008

Obama's regional problem, Part II
This will serve as a follow-up to the column Tuesday about the self-interested hesitance of conservative Democrats in our part of the country to embrace Barack Obama. - Thu, Jun 12, 2008

The one they didn't want
Once again Arkansas Democratic politicians find themselves burdened with a presidential nominee they'd prefer not come near them. - Tue, Jun 10, 2008

President Obama? Here's how
An Arkansas woman who'd like to vote Democratic because of the messes the Republicans have made asks me to address her question. - Mon, Jun 09, 2008

Eerie McCain, weird Bill
Let me warn you that today's topics are not substantive. We're not going to extend health insurance or lower oil prices today. - Sun, Jun 08, 2008

Gilbert Baker: nonpartisan partisan
Gilbert Baker is having it both ways. When I accused him of that Friday morning, he simply said, "Hey, it is what it is. - Sat, Jun 07, 2008


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