Category: Indiana Writers Group Section
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Bohanon: To Sharpen a Point on the Obama Pencil
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. Barack Obama and progressive Democrats are correct: No one builds a business on their own. This is a truism and truisms should be recognized as true. But it also is a straw man. There is no argument that the production and distribution of goods and services requires cooperation. Most all recognize…
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Neal: Why Women Don’t Run for Political Office
For release Sept. 5 and thereafter (660 words) by Andrea Neal One day after Ann Romney’s Republican National Convention speech, the Associated Press devoted an entire article to her “tasteful, conservative and appropriate wardrobe.” Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered an issue-packed endorsement of Mitt Romney, and Wall Street Journal Live responded with a…
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The GOP Agenda Meets the Pareto Principle
The Pareto Principle — after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, observing that 20 percent of the pea pods in his garden contained 80 percent of the peas. As Hoosiers prepare to elect a new governor and perhaps make changes in the Senate and House leadership we would be wise to measure the effect of envy on…