AltWeeklies Wire
Mike Huckabee and GOP Ideologynew
If Republicans are turning to the moderate in a field of sullen men bent on seeing who can be the most reactionary, it is an unusual phenomenon.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
12-06-2007 |
Commentary
Mike Huckabee is No Economic Conservativenew
Huckabee is a bona fide social and cultural conservative, but, as governor of Arkansas for more than a decade, he behaved as an economic pragmatist or moderate.
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
12-06-2007 |
Commentary
Mike Huckabee Courts Scary Evangelistsnew
In his desperation to collar the evangelical conservative vote, Huckabee has overplayed his hand rather badly. Five weeks before the Iowa caucuses he will be on national television for six days making common cause with Kenneth Copeland.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
11-26-2007 |
Commentary
Arkansas: Are We Blue?new
Arkansans welcome immigrants, they favor legal abortion, they are growing increasingly comfortable with gay people and less comfortable with punishing them, and they favor Hillary Clinton for president. So then: Tell me again just how conservative Arkansas is.
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
11-09-2007 |
Commentary
Small State Insights Into the Presidential Racenew
Are national reporters trying to tell me that Mike Huckabee is the best the Republicans have to offer?
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Strange Bedfellows, United in Fear of Mike Huckabeenew
Now that Huckabee has gained ground, pushback from Republican opponents has begun. If national reporters ever get beyond their lazy narrative, they'll also find a record unacceptable to most Democrats, not to mention many swing voters. With the George Bush experience in 2000 as a guide, however, that's a mighty big "if."
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Jekyll and Mike Huckabeenew
Huckabee has either reinvented himself in the national campaign or else we underestimated his dexterity at the oldest political art, telling everyone what they want to hear and getting away with it.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Judges May Soon Be Taking Sides in Arkansasnew
The old system restricting the speech and actions of judges and judicial candidates is crashing, as federal and state courts are ruling that these restrictions on judicial speech violate the First Amendment. Newer, more free-wheeling rules should make for more interesting politics, but they may make for worse law.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
11-02-2007 |
Politics
Politics with Merle and Brucenew
It turns out that a couple of my musical favorites have made political news lately -- perhaps it's mildly ironic that Merle Haggard seems more relevant than Bruce Springsteen.
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
10-18-2007 |
Commentary
Hillary Clinton's Health Plannew
The new Hillary health-care plan is fundamentally like the old one but without all the regulatory detail that flummoxed Americans and without the layer of health-care "alliances" and the confusing nomenclature like "managed competition" that allowed opponents to create scary scenarios.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
10-12-2007 |
Commentary
Mike Huckabee's Pulpit Politicsnew
Churches aren't given their tax breaks to spend the money on politicians, but tell that to the Baptist minister who recently used church stationery and an internet radio program to endorse a fellow Baptist minister for president. It's time for Huckabee to speak out against this.
Arkansas Times |
Editorial |
08-23-2007 |
Commentary
Hillary Hearts Arkansasnew
It was a Beebe-Clinton lovefest in Little Rock on Monday when Hillary Clinton made a brief public appearance across from the Capitol and received the endorsement of Gov. Mike Beebe.
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
08-21-2007 |
Politics
After Iowa Straw Poll, Mike Huckabee is on a Rollnew
If Huckabee is lucky, the focus will continue to be on form and not substance -- it worked for George Bush in 2000.
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
08-17-2007 |
Commentary
A Stronger Mayor for Little Rock?new
It's been just over half a century since city residents voted to strip their mayor of virtually all but symbolic power -- on Tuesday, they'll decide whether to give some of it back, with a heftily beefed-up paycheck to boot.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
08-09-2007 |
Politics
What Doesn't Get Mike Huckabee Indicted Makes Him More Brazennew
Finding that a person's actions don't warrant criminal prosecution is not the same as finding that the person has performed a great public service, but Huckabee doesn't recognize such distinctions.
Arkansas Times |
Staff |
07-26-2007 |
Commentary
