Morris: Short Session Agnosia
by Leo Morris Everyone will have a favorite piece of legislation to root for or against this session of the Indiana General Assembly, so there is a chance some of the lesser bills will escape attention. Here are three I’ll be monitoring. House Bill 1013, which would designate the mastodon as the state fossil. Senate Read the full article…
The Outstater
Surviving Sotomayorism “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” — Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution SONIA SOTOMAYOR’S PATH to the Supreme Court of the United States has been marked by plenty of firsts. Sotomayor, Read the full article…
Abbott: Critical Race Theory 101
by Jeff Abbott, Ph.D., J.D. In September 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies and federal contractors from requiring employees to undergo diversity, equity and inclusion training. The order barred training that had divisive concepts such as race or sex stereotyping and scapegoating. Immediately, the radical left (aka the Democrat Party) went ballistic. Read the full article…
The Outstater
Juvenile Crime: Getting Back to the Basics THE DIRECTOR of “the Bail Project” makes a convincing case that his group is not responsible for the revolving door that is returning violent criminals to the streets of Indianapolis. His self-description in a letter last week to the Indianapolis Star, however, is of the fox-in-the-hen-house variety: “After all, we are only Read the full article…
Morris: Partisanship and Education
by Leo Morris Indiana Republican lawmakers are considering several issues related to public schools for debate during their next legislative session, begins the story in Newsweek, “including potentially adding the choice to be identified on the ballot with a particular political party when running for a school board seat.” The reaction has been entirely predictable. Adding politics Read the full article…
Franke: A Simple Resolution
by Mark Franke Last year I was a casualty of hubris, the ancient Greek term for incredible egotism leading to stupidity. Maybe that’s not the technical definition as a classical scholar would tell you but it describes my year perfectly. At least it is an accurate description for that aspect of 2021 relating to my Read the full article…
