Opinion
RSSRight of Center: Scandals: One after another
Never ending, or at least that’s what it seems to be in our scandal-rocked nation’s capital these days. I assiduously try to avoid using the word “scandal” in my columns because I am fed up with hearing about them, but I’ve nearly run out of other words to describe them. The latest, but I’m sure not the last, is the outrage about a highlyclassified program, an offshoot of the Patriot Act, that extracts information from the phone records and computers of American citizens. Continue reading...
Write On: A bath to remember
When I was growing up, 11-year-old boys would often get together at recess if the weather was bad and tell scary stories. Most of the stories were made up, but sometimes they were true. The point was that they had to be scary, like about huge snakes, cougars, an octopus or crazy people. It was great entertainment. We would sometimes discuss a story for days. School had been out for three weeks and hot weather had set in. Each day, before he went to work, my dad would tell me what he expected me to do that day. It was usually to pull up cockleburs from the cow pasture, to hoe weeds from around the potatoes and beans, to thin the sprouted cornstalks, or to pluck cutworms from the tomato vines and feed them to the chickens. I would have preferred to read the last stack of comic books I had traded for. I had hoed the garden all morning one day. I was hot, sweaty, and chigger-infested ; I decided to go down to the pond and take a dip and clean up before eating lunch. My loyal collie dog, Prince, would ordinarily h Continue reading...
Write On: The Grape-Toned Studebaker
Editor’s note: Louis Houston wasn’t able to get a column done this week. This column was originally published a few years ago. Continue reading...
Right of Center: Prevarication and immigration
I was going to try to be clever and write this column about liars; in fact I was going to title this piece “Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose the biggest liar of them all.” Continue reading...
LETTERS
Should plan for traffic I would like to express my disappointment on the handling of the traffic on University Avenue at the UALR graduation. I don’t know if it’s the job of the college or the Little Rock Police Department to oversee this, but it took 45 minutes to get from Interstate 630 to 28th Street on the way to the campus. Continue reading...
