John Brummett
NWA Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas, United States
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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: It’s how the game is played
Joe Biden is so proud of himself he can't stop bragging. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Who will remember it?
Social-media sites exploded with posts last week declaring that the national Republican selection of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to deliver the response to President Biden's State of the Union address tonight would be ennobling or embarrassing for Arkansas. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Laws for the offended
I'm scared and I'm offended. So, let's make a law right quick. There's nothing to it, particularly when four-fifths of the Legislature sees it our way and wouldn't dare ask questions that might risk getting anyone accused of being tolerant of registered sex offenders. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Sarah at full speed
It only seems I'm obsessing on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Where’s momentum now?
Let's check in six days out on the national midterms. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The scripted campaigner
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has now made clear what we suspected. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Ponder marijuana
Issue 4, the recreational weed amendment, would allow current medical marijuana licensees to expand into quasi-monopoly bonanzas and pay a 10 percent tax on top of other taxes to raise quite a bit of money for the state. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Ethics petulance aplenty
Ethics escapades proceed apace at the state Senate where Sen. Alan Clark got cited for getting a pal to sign him into a meeting he didn't attend. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The irrepressible optimist
There was but one question for Chris Jones. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: E is for ethics
I thought it might be one of those doctored photographs. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: It’s not performance art
Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, women no longer have a federal right to authority over their bodies. But they are now welcome to join the group standing around the high school football coach who has the unquestionable right to lead a postgame public prayer at his public school's 50-yard line. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Profiles in historic courage
Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the House in Arizona, emerged for history Tuesday as an American hero. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Democrats’ best hope?
Most of them were somebody back in the day, in the gubernatorial cabinet of Jim Guy Tucker, or on the staff of Dale Bumpers or David Pryor, or in college administration, or lobbying for a professional organization. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: What voters could do
We confront two mildly interesting questions in today's primaries in Arkansas. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Where the blame lies
One thing about a mass shooter is that he'll give extremists on the right and left something to blame on each other so that our political essence will remain demonization instead of solution. → Read More
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Reasonableness in wringer
Abortion is a convenient issue for conservative Republicans. → Read More
JOHN BRUMMETT: Possibilities for the poor
The uncle's state government was on trial Thursday in Washington for punishing poor people illegally. → Read More
Still mean on Medicaid
Editor's note: This column was originally published online-only on Wednesday. → Read More
OPINION JOHN BRUMMETT: Arkansas meanness
Leonardo Cuello, policy director for the National Health Law Program in Washington that has sued over Arkansas' work requirement for Medicaid expansion, was assuring me the other day that trying to get Medicaid recipients into jobs is a good thing. → Read More
OPINION JOHN BRUMMETT: What it's all about
John McCain's death writes a new chapter in the decline of institutions and decency in the nation's politics. → Read More