The Outstater
THIS IS A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE. I am going to laud the performance of a professional politician. And in full disclosure, he is a longtime friend to some of us here. Nonetheless, it has to be don Close observers of the political scene have noticed something different about Jim Banks. Unlike the rest of Indiana’s congressional delegation, his Read the full article…
Moss: The Last Bastion
by Richard Moss, M.D. These are treacherous times. Our principal institutions have been overtaken by the Left. We are fast approaching French Revolutionary levels. However dysfunctional and disturbed they may be, the Left rules us, and they grow more authoritarian and imperious as we speak. The latest example of their audacity and command of our Read the full article…
Franke: The Masters Golf Tournament Prevails
by Mark Franke I have a love-hate relationship with golf. It started in my pre-teen years when I got my first regular job as a caddie at the nearby country club. I could earn $2.25 plus tip for carrying a single (one bag) or $5 plus tip for a double. Somedays I was lucky enough to Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
I FOUND MYSELF at a luncheon some time ago where the speaker was a local businessman. The speech was like many I have heard in recent years: a mix of crony capitalism and social justice with a splash of mercantilism toward the end. In his talk, civic progress depended on public-private partnerships (where risk is borne by that amorphous entity, Read the full article…
Morris: Curbing Executive Power
by Leo Morris During my tenure as president of one of the nonprofit boards I served on, there was a dispute between board members and the executive director over something the director proposed to do. He thought – and about half the board agreed with him – that the action would be consistent with his Read the full article…
Bad News About the Border
WHENEVER THE NEWS from the southern border worsens, we distribute as a public service this summary of the great Arnold Toynbee’s 12-volume “Study of History,” finished in 1961. It describes in present tense his cycle of a civilization, as prescient as it is troubling: “The third response (of a declining civilization) concerns the implosion of boundaries. Extension of empire is weakening its power to Read the full article…
