This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Prophet is no longer subject to copyright law. The classic book entered the realm of public domain last month, which means anyone can...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Our editorial cartoonist, Wolf Grulkey, owns a food truck in Alma, Ark., called the Hungry Wolf. A couple of weeks ago he loaded his...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers Jan. 23, 2019

There is no requirement for banks to be closed on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, but since 1983, the anniversary of MLK’s birthday has...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The most read words in our paper last week were calling Loretta Young Loretta Lynn. That comes under Brain Fade more than Independent Thinking, but...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Internet, that global source of instant information that is enlightening, horrifying, embarrassing, wrong, lifesaving – you get the idea – has changed the...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Arkansas Sen. Bryan King (R–Green Forest) introduced Senate Bill 299 last week in Little Rock To Amend the Law Concerning Water Districts; And To...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

When you’re hot, you’re hot. More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the sun. It’s 93 million miles away and more than 4 billion years...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Oh those women over 40, they are a force to contend with any way you look at it – seems they ingest big gulps...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Paul Beatty wrote a book. Who hasn’t? But Beatty’s book, The Sellout, set judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s loftiest literary accolade, into...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

“You’re dead. Watch your back. We will burn you down. You should be put in front of a firing squad as a traitor.” This...