The Outstater
Cronyism: The Republican Malady HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what’s wrong with the Indiana Republican Party? No, I don’t mean blithely welcoming large groups of random Afghans that we learn may have included security threats now in hiding. And no, I don’t mean sending the head of the state police to the Statehouse to override the Second Amendment. Read the full article…
Franke: Christian Persecution Hits Home
by Mark Franke “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.” (Matthew 5:11 ESV) He did warn us. Christians have been persecuted throughout history but always elsewhere. So why here? And why now? This is America, a nation founded on unalienable Read the full article…
Morris: The ‘Quilhot Bid’
by Leo Morris I have a new phrase to add to your vocabulary and self-help guide: the Quilhot bid. It comes from Russ Quilhot, who hosted the weekly afternoon card games a group of us old codgers participated in. I played bridge with him Wednesday before last. On Thursday he died. It was one of Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
The Lost Art of Defenestration SOME OF US are getting a handle on how the Legislature works: Somewhere in the continuous rounds of lunches and dinner parties, the leadership is told by the most activated lobbyists that a certain set of issues is to be given priority this session. All else must jockey for a place Read the full article…
Franke: A Love of Poetry (Provided It Rhymes)
by Mark Franke One enjoyment I get out of life is to engage someone in a conversation over a topic I know absolutely nothing about. If my interlocutor can make his point in grammatically correct and non-exclamatory sentences, I will listen and question him up to and past the point my wife gets embarrassed. A Read the full article…
IPR News: Glynn Files in the 32nd
Fred Glynn, a longtime member of the foundation and participant in our seminars, announces he has filed in the GOP primary election to represent the new 32nd Indiana House District. Glynn says his campaign will focus on government spending, education and support for law enforcement. The candidate has been married to his wife Beth for Read the full article…
