Believe it or not, there has been some good to come from this pandemic. Locally the self distancing we are practicing, and the fewer shoppers in the stores, probably saved a lot of lives when that tornado hit Jonesboro. Normally on a Saturday afternoon the mall would have been packed with customers. There's no telling what the death and injury toll would have been otherwise...

I just have a few thoughts that keep bouncing around in my brain while I sit in my house and hide from the Corona Virus. Forget the virus, I need a cure for cabin fever. I've never been much of a believer in conspiracy theories, with the one exception being the Kennedy assassination. However, I have had so much free time, that I've come up with one of my own that might really come to be...

The best thing all of us can do during this Corona Virus outbreak is just use our common sense, and stop listening to voices from the far left and right. This will be over in a matter of weeks, and if you don't take my advice you're going to feel foolish later...

There are a couple of stories in the news lately that have gotten me thinking about our politicians, and what we pay them to do their jobs. The first one has to do with the announcement of President Trump's latest donation of his salary, and the second comes from the annual report of our legislators reimbursements for expenses...

This is a plea to everyone out there who believes that the number one priority this year is voting President Trump out of office. Don't pull the same stunt that the Bernie supporters pulled in 2016, when they refused to cast a ballot for President because he wasn't the nominee. ...

Musing from the unpleasantness going on in the Senate last week. I was almost right. Last week I predicted that the unpleasantness in Washington would be over before the paper came out. Although it won't officially end until Wednesday, the trial effectively ended on Friday. That was when the Senate voted against allowing any witnesses or new documents to be introduced...

This weel I choose not to discuss the current unpleasantness in Washington, because in Mitch McConnell's Senate, it my be over by the time his paper comes out. Instead, I want to point out three examples from Thursday's Democrat-Gazette to show you why, if you want to know what's happening in the world, you really need to read a good newspaper everyday...

In the same way that a stopped clock is still right at least twice a day, an unconventional and obviously unfit President can sometimes be right. Just before the NATO talks last week, our European allies announced that they were going to increase their funding of the alliance by 30 million dollars. ...

This country is so divided right now that there is hardly anything we can agree on. This impeachment debate is no different. Half of the country believes President Trump should be impeached either for Ukraine, obstruction of justice, or just his incompetence. The other half is divided between those who don't care, and those who adore Trump to the point that they think he was born in a manger...

For some reason, our Congressman, Rick Crawford doesn't want to be famous. He gave up his seat on the House Intelligence Committee the week before it began TV hearings on impeachment. Actually, I doubt that it was Crawford's decision. That's because he was replaced by Jim Jordan of Ohio...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the County Sheriff's successful campaign to raise the sales tax to finance improvements in the county jail. Unfortunately, I have found out that I left the wrong impression with some people, including the Sheriff. So now I've got a little cleaning up to do...

I've always heard that when we are young we tend to be liberals, but when we grow up and face adult responsibilities, we tend to become conservatives. I had my doubts about that, because I have never lost my liberalism. However, when I look back at events from the not too distant past, and last week, I'm beginning to have my doubts...

I may be getting older, but I'm not old enough to have been around when Sen. Joe McCarthy had his reign of terror in the early 1950's, but watching President Trump reminds me of some of the things I have read about that period. Trump is not only old enough to remember McCarthy, for years the Senator's chief council at that time, Roy Cohn, was also Trump's lawyer...

Trump already knows that there aren't any rules. He lies repeatedly. Sometimes he lies and then denies the lie in the same sentence. He creates "enemies" and fall guys that he can blame for either the opposition to him or anything that goes wrong while he is President...

Well, the high Sheriff of Poinsett County is at it again. He nagged the voters from the minute he took office to raise the sales tax to pay for improvements to the jail until he got it this year. Now he's gone to the Quorum Court to ask for money to hire two new people and buy a new vehicle. He's supposed to be a Republican, but he acts like the stereotypical "Tax and Spend" Democrat that Republicans claim that they are...

The easiest job in government, no doubt, is Press Secretary to the President. Traditionally, the main job of the Press Secretary is to hold a morning briefing for the reporters assigned to the White House. This is anything but a traditional White House...

This is how screwed up we are as a country. Last week everyone should have been talking about Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright. Instead, all of the talk was about President Trump, Chief of Staff John Kelly, and Congresswoman Fredrica Wilson, and what they were saying. For the record, all of what they said would only be useful if you use it to fertilize your garden next spring...

President Trump had a chance to have a week long victory parade, and he blew it. If he had just released the statement he gave on Monday, instead of sandwiching it between statements apologizing for the racists and Nazis, Charlottesville would not have been the center of the universe last week. Instead, we would have been talking about how Trump's tough talk had made Kim Jong Un back down...

If there is any group of professionals who are hated as much, if not more, than politicians and lawyers, it would have to be journalists. All you need for proof of that is that the Montana man running for Congress, who body slammed a reporter, won the election...

I don't know what the weather is like in the domain of Satan, but a good guess would be that it is snowing, and getting colder. I base that assumption on the fact that this week, Arkansas' Junior Senator, Tom Cotton, said something that I totally agree with. I had always assumed that that particular region in our universe would freeze over before Sen. Cotton and I ever agreed on anything...