Arkansas Times

The hatred of health care
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

If you have spent an hour in front of a television the last month you know how encompassing and ruthless the health-care reform debate has become. /more/
Time is right for reform
Date: 11/12/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

They rushed in droves in the Congress Saturday to prove H. L. Mencken's maxim that for every vexing human problem there is always one explanation that is neat, simple and wrong. /more/
Falling for the PR
Date: 11/5/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

When the national interest starts to trump private greed, it's time to crank up the public-relations machine. /more/
The Arkansas irony
Date: 10/29/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

In the historic eruption of insanity and ignorance that has been the public health-care debate of 2008-09, the most nonsensical idea that surfaced was that the world would end if the government ever got into the business of insuring something. /more/
Getting it done
Date: 10/1/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

In some ways the good old days were just that. /more/
Why Jerusalem matters
Date: 9/24/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

Israel and Palestine have been on the fringe of the American consciousness for half a century, but what most of us know and think about the bewildering moil of issues there can be distilled into four words: Muslims bad, Israel good. /more/
Somebody v. nobody
Date: 9/17/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

The ill wind that carried away Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was the warm breeze that transported Sen. Blanche Lincoln into the Garden of Eden. /more/
The commie scare
Date: 9/10/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

Joe Klein, the Time magazine columnist who ghosted the best-selling novel on the Clinton presidential campaign 15 years ago, drifted down to Russellville one night last week to catch Sen. Blanche Lincoln's forum on health care. /more/
Trumanesque?
Date: 9/3/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

Breaking the long drought of good political news last week was a prayer answered. /more/
Winners and losers
Date: 8/27/2009
By: Ernest Dumas

It is time that someone separated the winners from the losers in national health-care reform if something approximating the bills circulating in Congress becomes law. /more/
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The Insider
Xmas access nixed
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

Two weeks ago we reported on the efforts of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers to put up a winter solstice display on the grounds of the state Capitol. /more/

Editorial
Charter school wisdom
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

The state Board of Education last week demonstrated a more searching approach to charter school applications than it has sometimes shown. /more/

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