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Letting Clinton be Clinton
Bill Clinton knows better than anyone how a Democrat gets elected president. - Monday, Oct 6, 2008

Odd chorus sings against lottery
The church ladies and gentlemen have been joined in the choir by the left-wing pundits. - Sun, Oct 05, 2008

What's the big deal, anyway?
I come to you today as apparently the only person in the country not all worked up one way or the other about Sarah Palin. - Sat, Oct 04, 2008

Feeling the love in Pope County
RUSSELLVILLE -- You ought to get a load of the gift basket they gave me for speaking at the Ronald Reagan Appreciation Dinner put on by the Pope County Republican Women. - Thu, Oct 02, 2008

Appreciating Reagan, if not Palin
Between my writing of this and your reading, I will have motored to Russellville to speak to the Ronald Reagan Appreciation Dinner put on annually by the Pope County Republican Women. - Tue, Sep 30, 2008

McCain's Cynicism Express
This is a little vignette about the cynicism of modern American politics. - Mon, Sep 29, 2008

Bingo!
State Sen. David Bisbee of Rogers, term-limited and moderate and brutally candid Republican state senator who probably will soon be the county judge of Benton County, spoke the quote of the year the other day. - Sun, Sep 28, 2008

St. Huck, prophet
Only one of our many presidential candidates this year was ahead of the game on this financial market meltdown and stands now in a position to say he told us so. - Sat, Sep 27, 2008

On Clintons, Petrino, gambling, et al
There was a great sportswriter in Texas named Blackie Sherrod who retired this year and who always called these kinds of columns "scattershooting. - Thu, Sep 25, 2008

Global warming on a honeymoon
So far Mike Beebe is in a tie with Dale Bumpers as the most effective governor in the state's history. - Tue, Sep 23, 2008

Wall Street socialism
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. - Mon, Sep 22, 2008

Scripted Barack back in front
It appears that Barack Obama has steadied himself, or been steadied by events, and crept back into a slim and tenuous lead in the presidential race. - Sun, Sep 21, 2008

Bubba's disappointments
"I wouldn't mind getting her into my duck blind, I'll tell you that right now. - Sat, Sep 20, 2008

We're all in a lottery
I don't know Jim Walton, but I know people who say he's a fine fellow. - Thu, Sep 18, 2008

What? This is about policy?
Let's put aside for the moment our prevailing political conversation about gender, race, pigs, pit bulls, lipstick and vice presidentially imposed change, whatever in the world that could possibly be. - Tue, Sep 16, 2008

We are New Orleans
John Barry, one of America's pre-eminent nonfiction writers, began his lecture with what he called a point of personal privilege. - Mon, Sep 15, 2008

Sarcasm vs. Obama
This lipstick business - indeed, this Sarah Palin phenomenon - prompted me to recall an article in The New Republic. - Sun, Sep 14, 2008

They're riled up out there
Reader feedback, by which I mainly mean clumsy hostility, always picks up after Labor Day in presidential years. - Sat, Sep 13, 2008

He's Kerry; she's Reagan
Barack Obama has turned into Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore. - Thu, Sep 11, 2008

Huckabee's soaring errors
Mike Huckabee's speeches tend to be better when delivered to unthinking audiences, like those in convention halls packed with blind and raging political partisans. - Tue, Sep 09, 2008

Noonan vs. Palin
Peggy Noonan was wrong both when faking it and telling the truth. - Mon, Sep 08, 2008

Burdened by nondescript competence
The best or worst thing about Mike Beebe is that even lawyers couldn't think of a way to make fun of him. - Sun, Sep 07, 2008


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