Category: Indiana Writers Group

THE INDIANA GOP is celebrating that the Party’s Black and Hispanic vote increased slightly Nov. 3. The leadership, however, might have stopped patting itself on the back long enough to join a lawsuit seeking to ensure that those Black and Hispanic votes will matter. Indiana was not among 10 states that filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme…

by Leo Morris I’m taking a break from brooding over the latest COVID-19 surge and cursing the chaos of the presidential race so I can properly mourn the passing of longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek. And, of course, obsess over who will be chosen to replace him. “Please, please, please,” I texted my sister (and…

by Leo Morris After Joe Biden was projected the winner of the presidential election, I read many variations of this sentiment, written by Frank Rich in New York Magazine: “The good news that comes with the potential Biden presidency is that there will be an honest and decent man in the White House, buttressed by a…

TO BE CLEAR, the concern here is with Hoosier Republican representation, and the most conservative of it at that. Modern Democrats can be assumed to be venal, and Joe Biden, who has proclaimed himself president, is as good an example as you will find. But in Indiana, the land of the ever-so-conservatively postured Dan Coats and Eric Holcomb, there is…

WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS in the hands of lawyers and partisan election officials we have the time to ponder the relative silence of the Hoosier congressional delegation, our direct and only line to Washington. In that regard, consider this, a statement on the week’s events from Claremont’s the American Mind: “If Republicans let this happen without pushing…

“The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” – Friedrich A. Hayek, 1944 THE BOARDED-UP storefronts on election day in downtown Indianapolis are a picture of what happens when private property is denigrated; for it is not just…

by Leo Morris As I write this, it is mere days from the presidential election, so my anxiety level is near an all-time high. I know you must be feeling it, too, but by the time many of you read this, the choice will have been made, so your dread will have started to fade…

The following historical document from the year 2220 came into the reporter’s possession via a fortuitous tear in the fabric of the time-space continuum.  — Dr. John Gaski  (November 2220) — The socialist takeover of the United States in 2020-21 actually began half a century earlier when the left took over higher education, followed soon…

AS I SIT PARALYZED with fear over a national election of Armageddon proportion, it is no comfort to realize that even my vote for mayor was for naught. City Hall has gone stupid. I don’t use the word lightly. Stupid is when a councilman mentions offhand it would be a fine thing if the city attracted more investment and suddenly…

by Mark Franke Does my vote matter? Yes and no. How’s that for equivocation? One can certainly argue that almost no election has ever been decided by a single vote.  Therefore, my vote won’t change anything so why bother? The risk of COVID exposure can be used as the excuse for staying home this year and absentee…