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Knocking Down KKK Straw Men IT IS THE MOST DISAPPOINTING piece of journalism you should ever hope to read — the Indianapolis Star’s “investigation” Wednesday of the “right wing” in Indiana. Please excuse the use of scare quotes here but the lack of definition in the article and its spurious intent require them. Here is the headline: “Same Goals, New Tactics: How Extremist Groups Read the full article…
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The Diversity Horizon CAN WE SEPARATE DIVERSITY from identity long enough to understand that when it is arbitrarily applied it weakens any effort? Probably not, but here is an attempt. If you are putting together a team and decide to ensure that one-third of them are from Kansas then you have denied yourself the untold talent/ability/energy of Read the full article…
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Lucas Oil Stadium: A Big Hole in the Roof IT WAS AN OUTRAGEOUS admission: Officials do not know the exact cost of the subsidized Lucas Oil stadium, specifically that part assigned to the retractable roof. The Colts had told the Indianapolis Star that the team was never given a “line item” on how much the roof added to Read the full article…
Franke: Is China a Threat?
Is China a Threat? by Mark Franke It is interesting to observe how public opinion can change in short order. Twenty or so years ago China was viewed as an ideal market for American goods as it began an economic liberalization away from state-controlled communism toward a somewhat freer market system. The thought was that Read the full article…
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Woke Lives at the Art Museum ‘WHEN I HEAR the word culture, I reach for my Luger,” said Herman Goring. Good advice for those trying to follow the internal machinations of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, as it likes to now be called. Culture in Indianapolis, once known as Nap Town and a wide spot in a Read the full article…
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Big Ag and Coconut Cream Pies ‘THE GREAT PROBLEM of our age is the tendency of people to assume that economic growth is a universal cure for all ills, while it often brings new problems and exacerbates existing ones,” wrote the British economist E.F. Schumacher. That is nowhere more true than in farming, where the notion that Read the full article…
