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Rodric’s Redistricting Guess INDIANA SENATE PRO-TEM Rodric Bray and ex-governors Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels, in tacitly opposing a redistricting measure that would have improved the national party’s position going into the midterm elections, have made a two-part tactical calculation — a political guess, if you will. The first part is that the Indiana supermajority is Read the full article…
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‘The Mamdani Effect’ (Part II) “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” — Zohrnan MamdaniI READ that many cities are ready to make bids for businesses fleeing Zohran Mamdani’s New York. I assume that Indiana metropolises will be among Read the full article…
Clark: Are you a ‘Christian Nationalist’?
Editor’s Note: The Indianapolis Star yesterday launched a series of articles beginning with “God and Politics: A once-fringe Christian movement gains influence in Indiana government.” It attempts, incredulously, to marginalize Christian teaching, the basis of both western civilization and the American experiment, as only a recent political tactic of extremists. Along the way, it butchers the concept Read the full article…
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AS A NEWSMAN I don’t have high expectations for modern journalism but we are at a new low. The media’s coverage of the congressional decision to shut down government demonstrates how close we are to tyranny. The press focused on the narrow issue of SNAP benefits rather than on the broader and more intractable issue of the congressional dysfunction Read the full article…
Franke: Supreme Court Independence
by Mark Franke Every year the Gallup organization conducts an opinion poll to determine the level of confidence Americans have for major institutions. It should come as no surprise that news organizations rank at the bottom with Congress and educational institutions also scoring high negatives. The confidence level in the Supreme Court of the U.S. Read the full article…
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The NIMBY of Data Centers AS USUAL, the emotional argument is winning the day, this time against data centers. If you mingled with the crowd of anti-Google activists at a recent library town hall in Fort Wayne you would have met precious few engineers and zero economists. Rather, the one hundred or so in attendance can be Read the full article…
