More Tornadoes Hit the Heartland

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2008 Yet another round of ferocious weather pounded parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and nearby states Saturday, with tornadoes that reportedly killed at least 18 people just a week after deadly storms hit Arkansas. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Arkansas Slammed by Deadly Storms

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2008 Emergency response teams faced a busy weekend helping Arkansas residents cope with the aftermath of another round of severe weather that pounded the Southern state Friday with heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes. Eight lives were lost, raising the state's storm-related death toll for the year to 24. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Wal-Mart Videos

Staff / Truthdig Apr 10, 2008 Hillary Clinton has, for obvious reasons, tried to distance herself from her time on the board of Wal-Mart, the Arkansas company that, for many Democratic voters, emblematizes globalization and all those jobs that were shipped overseas that the candidates keep talking about. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Huckabee Yells Out for a Debate, but the Press Goes Deaf

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2008 How quickly the tides turn for would-be presidential nominees. Just a few weeks ago, a former Arkansas governor was grabbing headlines, and it wasn't Bill Clinton. Now, Mike Huckabee is calling for a debate with GOP front-runner John McCain and almost no one in the media is taking note except the six reporters still assigned to trail him. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Huckabee Hangs On

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2008 If one thing is clear after last week's Super Tuesday craziness, it's that candidates who seemed to score big want to claim victory as a foregone conclusion, while others who didn't show quite as strongly -- like Mike Huckabee, for example -- want to challenge the finality of the results. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fact-Checking Clinton’s ’35 Years of Change’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2008 Hillary Clinton has made much of her "35 years" of "working to bring positive change to people's lives," but when McClatchy's Washington bureau investigated the claim, it found that the "bulk of her career" was spent "at one of Arkansas' most prestigious corporate law firms, where she represented big companies and served on corporate boards." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Huckabee on Homosexuality and Other ‘Aberrations’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 1, 2008 As the primaries loom ever closer, presidential candidates are contending not only with each other, firing and deflecting accusations at a furious pace, but with themselves -- scrambling to "put into context" (i.e., rationalize) things they have said, or written, as in Huckabee's case here. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Huckabee’s Sermons Off Limits

Staff / Truthdig Dec 13, 2007 The Huckabee campaign has refused to give the media much more than scraps of the candidate's religious speeches, leaving his 12 years as a pastor relatively shrouded in mystery. We already know he doesn't believe in evolution, thought at one time that AIDS patients should be quarantined and isn't ashamed "to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people," so what is he hiding? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Huckabee v. Huffington

Staff / Truthdig Dec 8, 2007 The gloves are off in a throwdown between Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Huffington Post creator Arianna Huffington over a low point in Huckabee's career as governor of Arkansas. The controversy concerns the Huffington Post's coverage of the part Huckabee played in the release of serial rapist Wayne Dumond, whose time in prison clearly didn't rehabilitate him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

White House Blasted Justice Officials for Revealing Rove Cronyism

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2007 An e-mail contained in a batch of documents released to the Senate on Tuesday exposed a searing rebuke from then-White House political affairs director Sara Taylor, who criticized Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty for revealing that a U.S. attorney in Arkansas was fired to make room for a Karl Rove protege, not because of performance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Another Arkansas Governor Running for President

Staff / Truthdig Jan 29, 2007 Mike Huckabee, who's best known for dropping 100 pounds and urging obese Arkansans to follow his example, added his name to the swelling list of presidential contenders on Sunday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Do You Heart Huckabee?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jan 16, 2007 Former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, a Baptist evangelical who is keeping loyal distance from Bush on the war, may just pull off the hat trick of blending religious conservatism with policy pragmatism. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )