I meant to make a comment the last time I linked to George Arnold, one of the editorial writers at the NWA DoG. George Arnold for years has been bellied up to the Kool-Aide bar and been a mighty mouse defending all things republican and most egregiously, Bush. This is Arnold’s second op-ed piece in […]

Arkansas families have paid a high price in Iraq.
Three members of Arkansas National Guard’s 77 th Aviation Brigade died Saturday in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Iraq that killed 12 U. S. soldiers.
The three Arkansans were members of the helicopter crew, according to a Defense Department official.
The Associated Press on Monday reported the identities […]

Clark, a retired general from Little Rock who was once NATO supreme allied commander, got into the 2004 race at what seemed like the last possible moment, largely at the urging of those who believed the party needed someone with strong foreign-policy credentials.
His campaign announcement came Sept. 17, 2003, so late that he made the […]

Sympathy is one emotion Bill Halter doesn’t garner much of. A business consultant who served in President Clinton’s administration, Halter eventually returned home to Arkansas after building a very successful life elsewhere. Before most residents had even heard of him, he was busy announcing his intentions to lead state government someday.
Cognizant of his chances against […]

By John Brummett
Desperate to deflect attention from his unpopular war, President Bush will propose tonight in his State of the Union address that the country move toward universal health insurance and raise taxes on highest incomes.
You’re thinking I must be kidding. Actually, I’m spinning, which is phrasing facts in a technically accurate, but arguably misleading […]