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John Brummett

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Bubba breaks it down on economy and Trump

Bubba breaks it down on economy and Trump
yesterday 10

Arkansas Online

John Brummett

Column: Trumpian outrage overload must be managed for sanity's sake

Column: Trumpian outrage overload must be managed for sanity's sake
yesterday 10

El Dorado News Times

John Brummett

Memories of childhood Christmases reflected in tree

Memories of childhood Christmases reflected in tree
25.12.2025 5

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John Brummett

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Trumpian outrage overload must be managed for sanity’s sake

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Trumpian outrage overload must be managed for sanity’s sake
23.12.2025 4

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The best of pols … and the worst of all

The best of pols … and the worst of all
21.12.2025 10

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Opinion: Arkansas Ledge's new aim -- taking power from the people

Opinion: Arkansas Ledge's new aim -- taking power from the people
21.12.2025 4

El Dorado News Times

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Arkansas Ledge’s new aim: Taking power from the people

Arkansas Ledge’s new aim: Taking power from the people
18.12.2025 2

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With PBS vote, Arkansas not as enlightened as Alabama

With PBS vote, Arkansas not as enlightened as Alabama
16.12.2025 2

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Dierks victory the feel-good story of the year

Dierks victory the feel-good story of the year
14.12.2025 4

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Column: Republicans set board for health-insurance chess game

Column: Republicans set board for health-insurance chess game
14.12.2025 10

El Dorado News Times

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Republicans set board for health-insurance chess game

Republicans set board for health-insurance chess game
11.12.2025 10

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Little Rock parks need visionaries, skeptics, and doers

Little Rock parks need visionaries, skeptics, and doers
10.12.2025 10

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Arkansas shares examples of destructive partisanship

Arkansas shares examples of destructive partisanship
09.12.2025 4

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Bubba holds forth on the football Hogs

Bubba holds forth on the football Hogs
07.12.2025 9

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Column: It's all about the play-pretties

Column: It's all about the play-pretties
07.12.2025 5

El Dorado News Times

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In Tennessee race, a loss, but still a glimmer of hope

04.12.2025 3

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For Arkansas Republicans, it’s all about the play-pretties

03.12.2025 4

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Affordabilty the new strategy for Democrats

02.12.2025 3

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NYT’s Trump exposé reveals question of credibility

30.11.2025 9

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Column: It's all politics | The socialist and the fascist

30.11.2025 4

El Dorado News Times

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Let us give (political) thanks

27.11.2025 4

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Column: Lessons for Democrats from New York City's election

The most consequential election last week occurred in New York City. A competent and talented Democratic Socialist, a fresh face, won the mayor's...

26.11.2025 10

El Dorado News Times

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Column: So, what was the shutdown about anyway?

26.11.2025 10

El Dorado News Times

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Opinion: GOP health-care plan -- junk policies -- coming into focus

26.11.2025 10

El Dorado News Times

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: It’s all politics: The socialist and the fascist

The late David Broder, an institution in political journalism for The Washington Post, once wrote on an election eve that the first thing to remember...

26.11.2025 10

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Sarah Sanders keeps tight lid on Arkansas press

Democrat-Gazette onlineAs a final task before the holiday break, let's check in on the Sarah Sanders beat, where the governor continues to make an art...

26.11.2025 10

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Are the Razorbacks for real?

This disorder of mine probably should be taken up with a psychiatrist, but I'll confide in readers instead.Sometimes

05.11.2025 3

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Dierks’ ‘Friday Night Lights’ get brighter

The remote mill town of Dierks, population 900-ish, a clearing in the pine woods of southwest Arkansas that both sides of my family came from, got...

03.11.2025 2

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Billy Roy in your life and a mule on your lawn

It was a Saturday many years ago, and I was headed up the walkway to Nate Coulter's house to watch a televised ballgame, a Razorback football loss,...

31.10.2025 2

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Trump-Sheen: Winning

Democrat-Gazette onlineCharlie Sheen is back in the news for a Netflix documentary, "aka Charlie Sheen," and a memoir, "The Book of Sheen."Donald

30.10.2025 4

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On Trump and Argentina

President Donald Trump got condescendingly hostile on Air Force One last week with a reporter who was just doing her job. She asked what he had to say...

29.10.2025 3

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Perception is everything

Today's offering adds context to a matter generating criticism for Gov.

27.10.2025 4

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Spin over the shutdown

The two parties are determined to tend to their interests by political spin and delay even at the expense of imminent public need.Take,

24.10.2025 5

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: First draft for our salvation

Democrat-Gazette onlineMonday was a particularly good day.

23.10.2025 60

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Bill of Rights? Meh …

It comes down, in Arkansas and surrounding states, to a choice.

22.10.2025 3

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No choice for the press

Dozens of Pentagon-assigned reporters turned in their badges and left the building Wednesday.Some

20.10.2025 2

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Question left unanswered

The big Franklin County prison issue comes down to a clear and direct question that the governor's office hasn't answered.What

17.10.2025 4

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Doing the hard work of peace

Democrat-Gazette onlineDonald Trump tends to sully or devalue everything he touches, grabs or wins--business, politics, golf, the presidency, the...

16.10.2025 2

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Loud and pointless politics

George Stephanopoulos and Vice President JD Vance got into it on ABC's Sunday-morning news show.

15.10.2025 3

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Praise for judicial principle

I'm a romanticizer of judgeship. I believe our nation inevitably hinges on judges who earn and get respect for principle, judicial discipline,...

13.10.2025 2

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Everywhere a bailout …

Ashell game here and a bailout there and, before they know it, MAGA Republicans will meet themselves coming and going.They'll

10.10.2025 2

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On the street where I live

Democrat-Gazette onlineIt's the biggest neighborhood festival in the state, this Harvestfest in Hillcrest.

09.10.2025 3

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Pulling together for Dierks

A small, remote Arkansas town finds itself in serious contention in a nationwide competition for a million-dollar upgrade in its high school football...

08.10.2025 3

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Down to anemically naïve

Who says politicians don't tell the truth?U.S.

06.10.2025 4

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Without saying a thing

Gov. Sarah Sanders can be a little sneaky, but, if caught, she can be counted on to put out a written statement that won’t say anything.She

03.10.2025 3

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Heading for a loss … again

There are a couple of sound and even compelling reasons for Democrats to let the government stay open.

02.10.2025 2

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Memoirs of a hogaholic

My first Razorback football memory is of a mere moment.

01.10.2025 3

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Notes on free expression

Let's tidy up the Jimmy Kimmel thing, not that you can ever really tidy up the horrid disgrace of your dreadful president and his mad cult literally...

29.09.2025 2

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Reason for celebration

Donald Trump was personally rebuffed twice in two working days--Friday and Monday.

26.09.2025 3

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A lesson in redirecting anger

Democrat-Gazette onlineSarah Sanders is a slick politician, which might explain why you're mad at health-insurance companies for proposing to raise...

25.09.2025 3

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