As Arkansas residents prepare to choose a new attorney general in 2022, the state’s highest court is being asked to make a ruling that would help establish the parameters of the constitutional officer’s authority. The question before the Arkansas Supreme Court is: Can Leslie Rutledge, the state’s first Republican and first woman attorney general, be

As Arkansas residents prepare to choose a new attorney general in 2022, the state’s highest court is being asked to make a ruling that would help establish the parameters of the constitutional officer’s authority. The question before the Arkansas Supreme Court is: Can Leslie Rutledge, the state’s first Republican and first woman attorney general, be

Reprinted from hartmannreport.com (For the “Daily Audio” of Thom reading this article check the “Daily Audio” tab.) On Christmas Eve, Louise and I watched on Netflix the brilliant Don’t Look Up! starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, written and produced by Adam McKay and David Sirota. It’s being lauded as a

Any democratic government that decays into dictatorship will have its Mussolini moment, sooner or later. The original Mussolini moment came 97 years ago this week, when Italy’s government, up till then a constitutional monarchy with a democratically-elected parliament — officially abandoned any pretense of democracy.  Before that, Benito Mussolini had been prime minister for three years, and his government administration had made

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Bennie Hargrove, 13, was shot and killed on Aug. 13, 2021 at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M. Family photo. The day before he died, Bennie Hargrove told his grandmother he needed advice. It was Aug. 12, the second day of eighth grade, and Bennie confided that he had stopped a classmate and some other