Category: Indiana Writers Group

By Margaret Menge What if the government decided to give a massive amount of money to small businesses to help them survive a pandemic but forgot to include anything to make sure the money was really going to businesses that needed it? It would seem like a fairly big oversight. But that is what has…

by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. You may have heard that the Post Office is in the hospital with COVID-19. Part of the problem is that it has some pre-existing conditions. It enjoyed something of a sheltered and spoiled childhood. But that led it to becoming soft and flabby later in life. It has also endured capricious…

The Myth of Universal COVID-19 Testing by Ken Bisson, M.D. I did not vote for Trump in 2016 and I will not vote for Trump or Biden in 2020. I am a medical doctor with no allegiance to Republicans or Democrats. If leaders of either of these parties get something right, I rejoice. When either…

by John Gaski, Ph.D. In reporting daily to the media and public, President Donald Trump recently had the audacity to speak in hopeful terms about a drug treatment for coronavirus that has shown promise. That is literally all he did but apparently it was enough to set off his critics among the liberal Democrats and…

by Leo Morris As a journalist, I appreciate the job our TV news folks are doing to keep us informed during these trying times. But, honestly, they’re starting to wear me out. It apparently hasn’t occurred to them that, with only one story to report, they’re bound to repeat themselves. So, at the risk of…

by Margaret Menge A rebellion is brewing in Indiana over the governor’s shutdown orders, with more than 100 people planning to rally on Saturday at 3 p.m. outside the governor’s mansion in Indianapolis. A second group is calling for a protest outside the Statehouse on Monday and a third group is planning a protest for…

by Richard Moss, M.D. The Chinese Virus, also known as Covid19 or the novel corona virus (highly bigoted against the producers of Corona beer, which is made in Mexico), is treated like no other illness in the history of the planet. It has caused enormous damage to the nation as much from government reaction to…

by Mark Franke I don’t know what to make of George Will anymore. Having enlisted in the Never Trump brigade, he acts the part of MSNBC’s domesticated conservative. But is he still a conservative? Yes, he is. Will’s “The Conservative Sensibility” (Hachette Books 2019, 600 pages, $16 hardcover through Amazon) is defense exhibit number one,…

BEING IN THE AGE GROUP shown in daily charts and graphs as the most vulnerable to the Wuhan virus, a wordsmith friend is trying to decide whether he is the flotsam of this pandemic or the jetsam. Whichever, he is coming to realize that his group is that which the other age categories are content to…

by John Pickerill U.S. government bureaucracy prevented the private sector from containing the coronavirus in America. And now, governments in the U.S. are attempting to clean up the mistake by violating our civil rights and economic freedom. South Korea has proven a pandemic can be contained without these totalitarian measures. According to World Health Organization…