After giving the matter some thought, I have decided that I’ve become unsuited to the low art of writing newspaper columns any longer. My deficiencies to participate in the current conversation are ...

Following Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul's foolhardy ruminations about civil rights, a headline in The Week cut to the chase: "Is Rand Paul Crazy?" Fresh from winning Kentucky's GOP primary, the ...

For some time now, conservatives have argued that the angry Americans at health care townhalls aren't racist or crazy, but afraid. For the most part, the idea has been ignored or brushed to the side ...

It's not simply about making the Obama administration look bad. Many Republicans actually love economic recessions. No better means of disciplining the labor force has ever been devised. That's the ...

A funny thing happened along the Roadmap for America's Future. Ordinary citizens smoked out its actual impact on their lives while much of the Washington celebrity pundit class were still uttering ...

This time, the right-wing media juggernaut went too far too fast. Sleazy tactics similar to those employed by online provocateur Andrew Breitbart against former USDA official Shirley Sherrod have been ...

Time was, and it wasn't that long ago, when Hollywood gifted us with epic films depicting heroic high school boys (and cute girls) fighting guerilla actions against invading Russian armies. Arkansas ...

"You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. ... But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

OK, so you have to keep the water faucets dripping and shovel the car out. You may need jumper cables to get the fool thing running. Not that you really need to go anywhere. Arkansas Times columnist ...