Trump comments ‘very disappointing,’ Arkansas governor says; Westerman also critical

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, left, and Donald Trump. Photo credit: Hutchinson - Staton Breidenthal/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Trump-Jim Cole/AP President Donald Trump's comments Monday regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and that country's election interference in the 2016 U.S. elections were "very disappointing," Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday in an interview.

Gov. Mike Huckabee Drops a MOAB on Hillary Clinton After She Questions Trump’s Loyalty to US

As TGP's Kristinn Taylor reported , sore loser Hillary Clinton still cannot get over being defeated by Donald Trump for the presidency nearly two years ago now. Sunday night, on the eve of President Trump's summit in Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Clinton trolled Trump on Twitter, questioning his loyalty to the Unites States.

Pinch a penny and win the war

This is the trademark of the Paris Garters brand, an ad for which appeared in the July 3, 1918, Arkansas Democrat. The Great War demanded sacrifices in July 1918 -- from restrictions on when you could eat a beef sandwich in a restaurant to whether the market would or would not deliver your groceries, to how many times a proper woman was supposed to revamp the same old frock .

‘Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House,’ the tweet said.

Former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was criticized on Twitter Saturday after tweeting a photo of five tatooed Hispanic men using what appears to be MS-13 gang hand signals. MS-13, a gang present in the United States, Mexico, Central America and Canada, mostly has members from Central America, particularly El Salvador.

Mike Huckabee criticized for ‘bigotry’ over Nancy Pelosi tweet of gang members

Former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was criticized on Twitter Saturday after tweeting a photo of five tatooed Hispanic men using what appears to be MS-13 gang hand signals. MS-13, a gang present in the United States, Mexico, Central America and Canada, mostly has members from Central America, particularly El Salvador.

Pelosi key cog in GOP strategy

State Rep. Clarke Tucker is among a handful of Democratic congressional candidates who have openly opposed the leadership of Nancy Pelosi in the face of Republican attempts to link them to the House Democrat. French Hill and Clarke Tucker agree on at least one thing: Nancy Pelosi shouldn't lead the U.S. House of Representatives.

Arkansas governor solidifies his hold on state’s GOP

Hutchinson's decisive win in last week's Republican primary and the defeat of two of his biggest critics within the GOP illustrated how much of a hold the first-term governor and former congressman has on a state party where he's been a major player for decades. It also shows how little intraparty fights on issues like health care, tax cuts and social issues have affected his popularity.

The Latest: Goodson, Sterling advance in Supreme Court race

An Arkansas Supreme Court justice and an attorney backed by an out-of-state Republican group are advancing to a runoff in a race for a high court seat that was marked by outside attack ads. Justice Courtney Goodson and Department of Human Services Chief Counsel David Sterling were the top two candidates in the heated three-person race in Tuesday's non-partisan judicial election.

Democrats Pin Hopes On US House Seat In Arkansas Election

Democrats in central Arkansas will choose the party's nominee for a Republican-held U.S. House seat the party believes it has a chance to reclaim this fall, while a state Supreme Court justice is seeking re-election in a campaign that's marked by an onslaught of attack ads from an out-of-state group. The Arkansas Secretary of State's office hasn't predicted how many of the state's 1.7 million registered voters will cast a ballot in Tuesday's primary and nonpartisan judicial election.

Activist offers Syrians aid, notes of hope

Mouaz Moustafa , the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, is shown with Sen. John McCain as they visit Syrian rebels in May 2013. Moustafa says his "letters of hope" effort was meant to show the people of war-torn Syria "that they have not been forgotten."

Race pits Democrat labeled ‘moderate,’ 3 called progressives

In the four-way primary for central Arkansas' congressional seat, the Democrats' positions on health care -- three support a single-payer solution and the other favors a Medicare buy-in proposal -- reflect the tenor of the race's debate. Clarke Tucker, an attorney and two-term state lawmaker, has been painted by pundits and his three opponents as the more moderate choice.

How Arkansas Republican primary voters learned to stop worrying and love Obamacare

Don't miss Jay Barth's column in this week's Arkansas Times on the evolution of opinion on Medicaid expansion among Arkansas GOP voters. Barth digs in to a doozy of a finding in a recent Talk Business poll, one I also noted last week : A substantial plurality of Arkansas Republican primary voters now support Medicaid expansion.

Justice Gorsuch confirms conservatives’ hopes, liberals’ fears in first year on Supreme Court

After a year on the Supreme Court as President Trump's first nominee, Justice Neil Gorsuch has largely fulfilled conservatives' hopes and justified liberals' fears by refusing to take a back seat. Instead, he has ably replaced the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the bench and in the public arena.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas AG Leslie Rutledge back death for drug dealers

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., uses a salt shaker to illustrate that a similar quantity of the drug fentanyl would kill thousands of people. Cotton and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge held a news conference Wednesday to discuss their efforts to fight opioid problems.