by May 2, 2012 9:38 pm
-Obama’s miss on Afghanistan
Perhaps the biggest surprise of President Barack Obama’s appearance in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday (May 1) wasn’t the trip itself, but his use of the occasion to make a head-scratching…
by May 2, 2012 9:38 pm
-Perhaps the biggest surprise of President Barack Obama’s appearance in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday (May 1) wasn’t the trip itself, but his use of the occasion to make a head-scratching…
by May 1, 2012 8:54 pm
-Like a Pony Express rider wobbling toward Fort Laramie with an arrow in his hat, the Senate bill passed last week to reform the U.S. Postal Service is far from…
by April 29, 2012 9:11 pm
-A few years back there was this Facebook fad in which a friend would “tag” you to post 25 random things. Or at least that’s how it may have worked….
by April 29, 2012 4:37 pm
-The beautiful Clayton House — home of Federal prosecutor WHH Clayton who prosecuted the cases that went before "Hanging" Judge Isaac C. Parker — was condemned for demolition in 1969….
by April 23, 2012 9:37 pm
-When the news broke this afternoon that Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long had hired Bobby Petrino’s replacement, the initial reaction I had was, “What?!?!” People who know me know how…
by April 22, 2012 7:01 am
-The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it. — H.L. Mencken Recently toured several of the fine museums in Chicago. The city…
by April 22, 2012 6:55 am
-Most observers are well aware the so-called Buffett rule has approximately zero chance of winning approval anytime soon in our plainly partisan, seemingly rudderless U.S. Senate, especially during this presidential…
by April 22, 2012 6:48 am
-Busyness in a small business can be the enemy of its success. I'm an expert in busyness. I own a CPA firm where preparation of income tax returns is a…
by April 15, 2012 6:31 pm
-Ready, shoot, aim. That’s been for the past several years the modus operandi of the Fort Smith Board of Directors — and that’s giving them credit on the “Ready” portion….
by April 15, 2012 6:14 pm
-As a disclaimer, I promise this column will not provide opinion on whether Bobby Petrino should have held onto his job as the University of Arkansas head football coach. That…
by April 8, 2012 4:19 pm
-Should Bobby Petrino be fired? Incredible as it might seem, that is the difficult question resting at the heart of the all-together bracing storyline gripping Razorback Nation. To recap: Over…
by April 8, 2012 4:04 pm
-Not everybody is going to be a Steve Jobs or a Steve Wozniak and change the world by tinkering with a new idea in their garage. But when you read…
by April 6, 2012 1:25 pm
-It's as classic as a Hollywood plot line. A popular public figure secretly takes up with a young woman betraying his wife, family and loyal followers. Through happenstance, an accident…
by April 5, 2012 8:10 pm
-What’s the difference between a media report and pink slime? One is perfectly fine to ingest, while the other can leave thousands of people without jobs and raise the price…
by April 1, 2012 5:03 pm
-“We are actually currently considering all options at this point in time.” That’s the statement — or darn close to it — of some fella with one of the Gulf…
by April 1, 2012 4:13 pm
-The bankruptcy case that was issued in September and put the Arkansas foreclosure market in turmoil is still lingering. The case at issue is In Re Johnson, a Chapter 13…
by March 25, 2012 5:11 pm
-One might think even with a superficial knowledge of history and religion one would see the advantage of avoiding God-based government or government-based God. But the level of support for…
by March 25, 2012 4:34 pm
-I’m confused. Isn’t the economy supposed to be hurting, limping along without much hope for the future? That seems to be the theme of conversation with many the people with…
by March 25, 2012 3:00 pm
-Some folks have been rolling their eyes at the presumptiveness the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission supposedly displayed March 20 when it unanimously elected to rename the state’s largest airport…
by March 18, 2012 9:43 pm
-There is this thing with the Fort Smith Board of Directors about money and television and Something Else. Coincidentally, Political satirist P.J. O’Rourke once noted that the three branches of…