Franke: A Health Checkup for Patriotism
by Mark Franke Having passed three patriotic observances — Memorial Day, Flag Day and Independence Day — provides an opportune moment to reflect on the status of patriotism here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. What is its status? That depends on whom you ask, where you look and Read the full article…
The Outstater
ONE OF THE great things about our form of democracy, perhaps the greatest thing, is that when we find ourselves with inept rulers nobody mounts a revolution and organizes a firing squad. At worst, the rascal is nudged out of office into a six-digit pension. That thought occurred as Gov. Eric Holcomb’s pre-Covid decision to lead a trade mission Read the full article…
Franke: The Nexus of Libertarianism and Christianity
by Mark Franke It is much too easy to overthink things. If this were an Olympic sport, I would be competing on national TV every four years. Libertarianism is one such overthink for me. Over the past 50 years libertarianism and I have lived through an on again, off again relationship. It first seduced me Read the full article…
Morris: Crime — an Outrage or Mere Problem?
by Leo Morris One day last week, an 82-year-old woman named Wilma Ball was stabbed to death in her home at Lake James. According to a sheriff’s deputy, it was the first homicide in Steuben County since 2016. About the same time, a man was shot to death on the east side of Indianapolis. It Read the full article…
The Outstater
WE DO NOT KNOW who advised then Vice-President Mike Pence to immediately certify the 2020 presidential election results. We can be sure that the decision was made on the spot and under the most intense political pressure imaginable. We somehow doubt that the deliberation was as simplistic as, “What would be the ‘American’ thing to do?” That, however, is Read the full article…
The Outstater
“The feeling that the government should ‘do something’ has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not ‘do something.’” — Thomas Sowell HERE’S A QUESTION for those of us living in the post-factual world: Is anyone checking to see if the laws — any of the Read the full article…
