Category: Indiana Writers Group

by Leo Morris If I were asked to list miracles of human achievement in my lifetime, three would quickly come to mind: Humans set foot on the moon. The Berlin Wall was demolished. J.K. Rowling got 12-year-old boys to read books. The first two were one-and-done heroic acts that deserve to be memorialized and celebrated…

by Leo Morris If you had any doubts about the embrace of socialism by the 2020 Democratic presidential field, they should be gone by now. One of Indiana’s own potential contenders – South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg – has jumped into the collectivist basket with both feet. Although acknowledging that America has a market-based economy…

Q.  Regarding historical accuracy, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with how socialism is taught in Indiana public schools? Click HERE to participate in this quarter’s sample of membership opinion. 

A DIGITAL ECONOMICS EXPERT at the University of North Carolina estimates that for every newspaper that has closed in recent years, 10 have been so hollowed out that they exist in name only. She calls them “ghost papers,” newspapers that pretend to report the news but lack the resources to do so. There could be…

by Leo Morris I’ve been reading up on the wisdom of the crowd, the theory holding that a large group of people’s aggregated answers to certain questions are often superior to the answer given by any individual within the group, even one judged to be an expert on the subject at hand. It’s a well-documented…

by Dave Penticuff The best thing, we think, about Foxconn Technology Group’s now reconsidered plans for a U.S. manufacturing plant is that they apparently never considered my Indiana county for the project. Where we would be if they had turned to our County Economic Growth Council for incentives to locate in our community? We’d be…

by Leo Morris I hired someone to do something around my house recently, and when the job was done, I texted a message of appreciation: “Good job at a fair price. Thanks.” Don’t know what I expected – perhaps a hearty “You’re welcome” or a cheery “Don’t mention it, that’s what we’re here for” –…

by Mark Franke We’ve been here before, the “here” being an attempted politicization of the Supreme Court by a political party. Justice Brett Kavanaugh is being lined up as the next target. Once the midterm elections gave the Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives, new Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler was overheard plotting…

“The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.” — Columnist Evan Thomas on learning of the innocence of the Duke lacrosse team by Craig Ladwig Perhaps the national media never really believed that a four-minute video clip showed overt racism by MAGA-hat-wearing southern teenagers. Maybe it didn’t care whether the killing of a seven-year-old…

by Leo Morris Pierre was a knucklehead. He was my first feline companion and lived to the ripe old age of 19 despite being an indoor-outdoor cat with more spunk than sense. At least once or twice a year, he would come home after a neighborhood excursion all battered and bloodied and spitting mad. A…