Political columnist and television show host David J. Sanders is hanging up his pundit’s hat and going back into politics. Sanders, a former columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau and producer and host of the AETN television show “Unconventional Wisdom,” has accepted a job as campaign manager for former Arkansas Farm Bureau President Stanley Reed, [...]

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin will be in Little Rock Saturday to deliver the keynote address at an event sponsored by Americans for Prosperity and Arkansas Tea Party groups, according to a release from Americans for Prosperity. The event will be held at the Double Tree Hotel. Malkin will speak on “the corruption, special interest pay-offs, [...]

Washington Post political blogger Greg Sargent writes that Lt. Gov. Bill Halter was recently in Washington D.C. to meet with a group of labor leaders and liberal bloggers to discuss the possibility of running against Sen. Blanche Lincoln. The blog doesn’t doesn’t indicate how serious Halter is, but it quotes unnamed sources as saying the [...]

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a Senate ethics complaint against U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his robocalls in several states, including Arkansas. The calls in Arkansas urged people to ask U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., to support his amendment that would have removed Medicare cuts from the [...]

Mike Huckabee, much in the news lately for his 2000 commutation of the prison sentence of a man later suspected of killing four police officers in Washington state, will make an appearance at the Clinton School of Public Service at 2 p.m. next Monday, the school has announced. Huckabee will discuss and sign copies of [...]

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, chairman of the conservative organization FreedomWorks, will be the keynote speaker at the Pulaski County Tea Party’s Christmas party on Dec. 15 in Little Rock, according to the Tea Party’s Facebook page. Armey visited Little Rock earlier this year to speak against a proposed 56-cents-per-pack cigarette tax increase [...]

“Nagging doubt” remains over Sen. Gilbert Baker’s role in helping a Democrat, Jack Critcher, get elected Senate president pro tem in 2005 instead of Republican Sen. Dave Bisbee, according to an internal memo from Baker’s U.S. Senate campaign obtained by blogger Jason Tolbert.

The fallout over former governor and GOP presidential contestant Mike Huckabee’s 2000 connection with the suspected killer of four police officers in Washington state has already hit Huckabee’s political operation — Jason Tolbert resigned today as Arkansas coordinator for Huckabee’s political action committee, HuckPAC. After Maurice Clemmons emerged as the prime suspect in the police [...]

After releasing a prepared statement and talking to Fox News Radio about his decision nine years ago to commute the prison sentence of Maurice Clemmons, now suspected in the slayings for police officers in Washington state, Mike Huckabee is getting another chance to explain. The press team for the former Arkansas governor reports he will [...]

Mike Huckabee’s connection to the suspect in the slaying of four police officers in the state of Washington — Huckabee commuted the prison sentence of shooting suspect Maurice Clemmons in 2000 — is prompting comparisons to two infamous offenders from the past: Willie Horton and Wayne DuMond. Yael Abouhalkah of the Kansas City Star asks, [...]