Category: Indiana Writers Group

“At the very moment our adversaries were certain we would pull apart and fail, we came together. United. With light and hope, we summoned new strength and new resolve.” — Joe Biden’s address to Congress, April 28, 2021 by Mark Franke Joe Biden has officially completed his first 100 days in office, an artificial but important…

“Hogsett Announces ‘Reimagining’ of Public Safety through New York University Partnership.” — headline in the Indianapolis Star, Jan. 15, 2020 EARLY IN MY JOURNALISM CAREER my path crossed that of a city councilman who represented a district with a crime problem. People were coming to church and finding dead bodies in the parking lot and that sort…

by Leo Morris One of my favorite jokes involves an election in a mythical town in which there are 1,000 Christian voters and 250 Jewish voters. There is an election for mayor featuring a Christian candidate and a Jewish candidate, who get, respectively, 1,000 votes and 250 votes. “Boy,” says one Christian voter to another…

By Margaret Menge The media reported that the reason the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was pulled was because just six women out of 7 million people who got the shot had a blood clot. I don’t think this is true. If you look in the VAERS database where health-care providers, patients and families report possible…

by Nathan Collins As the effects of COVID-19 begin to diminish, a new rallying cry is beginning to echo throughout the nation. The Biden administration and the media establishment are promoting the idea that Americans should willingly relinquish sovereignty over personal health choices. If that were not enough, Americans are also being encouraged to participate…

by Mark Franke It was the fall of 1988 and my entire family was together. The conversation turned to the upcoming presidential election between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis.  My father held forth on what he believed, which tracked quite consistently with that year’s Republican platform. So I asked him if he were…

by Leo Morris Tick, tick, tick. It’s 100 seconds till midnight. Scared yet? I guess we’re supposed to be. That’s the current time on the Doomsday Clock, which was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group of University of Chicago scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to help develop…

THIS IS A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE. I am going to laud the performance of a professional politician. And in full disclosure, he is a longtime friend to some of us here. Nonetheless, it has to be don Close observers of the political scene have noticed something different about Jim Banks. Unlike the rest of Indiana’s congressional delegation, his…

by Richard Moss, M.D. These are treacherous times. Our principal institutions have been overtaken by the Left. We are fast approaching French Revolutionary levels. However dysfunctional and disturbed they may be, the Left rules us, and they grow more authoritarian and imperious as we speak.  The latest example of their audacity and command of our…

by Mark Franke I have a love-hate relationship with golf. It started in my pre-teen years when I got my first regular job as a caddie at the nearby country club. I could earn $2.25 plus tip for carrying a single (one bag) or $5 plus tip for a double. Somedays I was lucky enough to…