Author: Craig Ladwig

by Mark Franke The signs of spring are everywhere but something just doesn’t seem right.It’s partly due to our typical northern Indiana weather. As a lifelong resident I should beaccustomed to temperatures in the 60s one day and the 30s the next. It happens every year at this time but my tolerance level must be…

Holcomb ‘Predicts’ an Eclipse YOU CAN MAKE  too much of this, but that Gov. Eric Holcomb has to declare a state of emergency to get us through an event fully understood for four centuries is pathetic — necessary, perhaps, given the state of society, but pathetic. Tens of thousand of visitors are expected to gather in…

by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll When I used to bartend, people advised me to keep a dictionary handy, that and the works of Shakespeare. Patrons…

Common Sense 1; Woke 0 PLEASE FORGIVE this “my faith in human nature is restored” moment. You do not need anyone to tell you that what comes out of a DEI-soaked executive suite is not as reliable as the lunch talk on the factory floor. You can call it common sense or dispersed knowledge but it is what a…

Donald Trump and ‘Truth Social‘ ONE THING ABOUT the old smoke-filled rooms was we knew who was in them — and that they were all U.S. citizens. Campaign finance “reform” took that away. The Virginia House of Burgesses prohibited George Washington from popping a cork for some political friends: “No money, meat, drink, entertainment or provision, any…

Our ‘War’ with Indiana University “ARE YOU GOING TO WAR with Indiana University-Bloomington?” is the question prompted by a string of essays challenging the university’s leadership, particularly its admission policies. Hah, it would be a short war, is our reply. Our foundation is no match for a university with rooms full of lawyers to field Freedom of Information…

Welcome to the Kipling Cluster EVER WONDER where you fit in society — exactly, that is? I wonder, and it’s ugly. There’s the eye color, a physical characteristic akin to skin pigment, one that can be used to discriminate by a brown-eyed majority. The blue-eyed in America stand at only 25 percent and dropping, a mere 8…

No, Dr. Whitten, We’re Not Equal “We are not the party of identity politics, you utter idiots.” Ann Coulter critiquing the GOP response to the State of the Union. READING THE WORDING in the 74 bills that Gov. Holcomb signed into law this week, you were struck by the hypersensitivity to offending even slightly any segment of…

by Mark Franke It is a matter of discipline with me to avoid listening to political speeches. They are hardly edifying and the current trend is a pronounced one toward less and less enlightenment each time a politician rises to his legs and starts talking. Last week’s State of the Union address by President Biden…

IU Tenure and the Heidt Memo WE APPLAUD the Indiana Legislature’s revolutionary attempts this session to reign in group-think and lockstep tenure in the university system. It’s about time. We call it “revolutionary” in the sense the Founder’s used the term and as it is explained in our newly published “Indiana Mandate: A Return to the…