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The Best, Worst and Most of 2012
Here’s my annual list looking at 2012: Worst Political Primary Performance of the Year Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s run for president. It wasn’t just his lackluster performance, forgetting his own program during a debate, or that video suggesting he had either an attack of …
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School condom dispensers: Do they pass the test?
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, over the holiday break the one-third of Philly high schools with the worst record for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were outfitted with clear plastic dispensers full of free condoms. This pilot program is touted as a pragmatic response to an …
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2013 ‘Precap’
Should auld acquaintance be forgot? How ‘bout the presidential campaign, the 112th Congress and Newsweek magazine? Journalists usually favor year-end recaps of news but as a public service I’m going to focus instead on the glorious months ahead, in this handy precap of 2013: JAN. …
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Legislator impresses reporters
Let me say I am totally impressed with one state senator, and my co-worker Andrea Bruner totally agrees. We recently spent the better part of the day in Little Rock waiting to hear an appeal on a case that the Arkansas State Claims Commission had …
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Our Christmas joy
I finally did it this year — I put my foot down and told everyone we were not traveling on Christmas Day. After 38 Christmases of spending more time in a car than with loved ones, dragging in at a late hour and getting up …
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Why I don’t much like liberals
Although people like Bill O’Reilly habitually refer to establishment liberals as the “far Left,” they are two very different things. What we identify as mid-20th century, New Deal liberalism is rooted in the Progressivism of the turn of the 20th century. The Progressives came largely …
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A Christmas to remember
It certainly goes as quickly as it comes, the Christmas holiday. Was it not that long ago that it couldn’t come fast enough? How slowly time passed the nearer Dec. 25 became — just like molasses on a cold winter’s day. While out shopping last …
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Names from Christmas Past
This unusual editorial cartoon appeared in the Guard and several other Arkansas newspapers during the Christmas season in about 1971. I had been cartooning for the Guard for eight years, and had recently re-joined the staff after getting married and working two years as editor …
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If we ever needed Christ in Christmas, it is now
This year, the politically correct gestures of seasonal salutation (Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, etc.), which for too long have served as substitutes for the real thing, have become vacuous, stale and boring. This year, somehow, they seem especially inadequate to express the sentiment we so …
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Did we make it?
Well, today is the day that the world is slated to end. If you’re reading this on Saturday then you have survived. I hope I did too. I, like many others, have been swept up in the whole “doomsday” prediction on Dec. 21 so I …
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Letter to the editor
Flags at Oil Trough I recently drove through Oil Trough and noticed the flags at the fire station. They were at half-staff and I’m sure it was in honor of the Connecticut victims. That is good and respectable but the problem I have is that …
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Gun control won’t prevent tragedy
It’s not tougher gun control, stupid. No matter how much tougher we make our gun laws we’ll never prevent future tragedies like last week’s murder of those innocents in Newtown, Conn. We won’t stop future Newtowns if we outlaw every military-style assault weapon in America. …
