Category: Indiana Writers Group

Barack Obama: America’s Anti-American President — Governance and Security Implications John F. Gaski, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-5266 jgaski@nd.edu The author is a long-time registered Democrat―and a long-time registered Republican― intermittently, not sequentially, which should dispatch any possible impression of partisanship. Dr. Gaski’s primary…

John McCain, the anti-Trump, tells us he knows how to spot a dictator. He will be the one trying to suppress a free press. But Senator McCain was wrong about the effective range of North Vietnamese AAA fire and he is wrong about this. For starters let us assume that, by “suppressing,” McCain does not…

by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. In the civics section of the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress, eighth graders were tested on this question: “Which of the following is a belief shared by most people of the United States?” The country should have a single political party. The country should have an official religion. The…

Not for publication. For the use of the membership only. by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. The downtown of Louisville across the river is now a food “desert” in that it has few significant grocery stores. Last year, four prominent groceries closed there and a proposed WalMart was sacked by legal hurdles and social hassles. Grocery stores…

by Fred McCartney The people in this city who decided on the Palladium-to-Stadium bus route (otherwise known as the Red Line) are determined to go ahead with that plan, even though it obviously means further delay in the needed expansion of city-wide bus service to those who would use it and truly need it. While…

by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. There was much soul searching at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association held in Chicago last month. Four ex-chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, two Democrats and two Republicans, commented in a panel discussion on economic issues facing President Donald Trump. His proposed trade policies concerned…

by DAVID LANTZ The author is an adjunct instructor for economics at Indiana Wesleyan University. This was written as part of the American Enterprise Institute’s “Values and Capitalism” project. (Dec 30) — The Oxford Dictionary has declared as its 2016 Word of the Year: Post-Truth, defined as: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective…

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.” — Doug Adams, author of “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” IT IS STRANGE POLITICAL WEATHER when the Democrat plan makes more sense than the Republican one. The reason is not an ideological flip. It is that ideology has died — on…

by Andrea Neal Indiana education spending is at an all-time high, yet the percentage of money going to classroom instruction is dropping. Lawmakers have criticized the trend for more than a decade and are trying to do something about it. Rep. Mike Karickhoff, R-Kokomo, says it will be a session priority “to make sure more…

“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind.” — Thomas Sowell. by Cmdr. John Pickerill The Indiana…