The Outstater
The Stadium Game Plays Out IN ANY DISCUSSION of economic development the success of our publicly financed baseball stadium is invariably trumpeted. It is surrounded by similarly financed masses of concrete and rebar, e.g., a convention center, apartment complexes, parking garages and now an abandoned factory transformed into a mixed-use district “of innovation, energy and culture.” Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
The Jan. 6 Record Set Straight(er) WE OWE to the Claremont Institute some insight into the unholy mess that was Jan. 6, 2021, and the fateful decision of the Vice President to certify the election of Joe Biden as President. It is not what we have been told. The narrative to date is that the Vice President had little Read the full article…
The Outstater
Indiana’s Equity Commissar Gets Paid IT IS PAINFUL to follow the public discussion but somebody has to do it. I can tell you that it is devoid of what most of us would recognize as common sense, let alone that necessary to continue a democratic republic. Gov. Eric Holcomb, an always ready example of the haplessly shallow, was defending his decision Read the full article…
Morris
Redistricting: Power Delineated by Leo Morris Here’s the remarkable opening sentence of one of the many stories about the Hoosier GOP’s “disputed” and “contentious” redistricting plan: “Two independent analyses of Indiana’s redistricting maps say the districts drawn by Republicans are heavily skewed in favor of Republicans.” Seriously? The party in charge of redrawing election maps redraws them Read the full article…
Franke
Returning Civility to America’s Discourse by Mark Franke America was built by a group of people who disagreed about many things but still found enough common ground to write our Constitution and forge a stable republic. The battle for ratification had its elevated oratory, to be sure, but the new nation began in an environment Read the full article…
Franke
Is Stupidity a Dominant Gene? by Mark Franke Several weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed column entitled “You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity.” That got my attention, even without my wife’s not-so-subtle hinting I should read it. The author, Lance Morrow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote a Read the full article…
