The former president might be history, but the hoaxes he promoted won’t die easily.
Ernest Dumas
Perceptive commentary on Arkansas and national topics from the dean of Arkansas journalists.
Posted inErnest Dumas
The Huckabee legacy
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has given few hints how she’ll govern if elected. Looking at her father’s time as governor might provide a clue.
Posted inErnest Dumas
A point of no return: An end to income tax in Arkansas would be permanent
The state constitution’s Amendment 19 requires that three-fourths of the legislature approve tax on income. A minority of lawmakers voting no would mean an end to such revenue.
Posted inErnest Dumas
Joe, the one-man terrorist band
He earned notoriety from his Sharp Citizen newspaper.
Posted inErnest Dumas
Trump and Putin
For whatever solace it might offer, one positive from Vladimir Putin’s genocide and plunder of Ukraine is that we no longer have to wait in ignorance for some future revelation — perhaps from a source such as, let’s say, the Kremlin archives in 2052 — of what lay behind the strange and now nearly decade-old partnership of the little dictator and the future leader of the free world.
Posted inErnest Dumas
Tax cut fallacies in Arkansas
Governor Hutchinson and the Arkansas legislature push forward another massive giveaway to the rich.