Franke: A Postive Thought
by Mark Franke Dark. Depressing. Frightening. These are just a few of the adjectives people are using to describe 2020 as it passes into a bad memory for all of us. Most, though, will follow with a more positive statement about what 2021 is expected to bring. Perhaps this incipient optimism reflects the rolling out Read the full article…
Morris: A Template for Slimming Hoosier Government
by Leo Morris I apologize, but this is the time of year when I must do my annual beating-a-dead-horse ritual of imploring the Indiana General Assembly to go to every-other-year sessions. The so-called “short” session was originally supposed to just involve a brief review of potential problems in the two-year budget. But it has become Read the full article…
Franke: A New but Old List of Resolutions
by Mark Franke I am not going to resolve in 2021 to exercise more or lose weight. Sure, I need to do both those things and will work on them, but I won’t take the cheap way out and declare them to be my New Year resolutions. They are too easy to make and even easier Read the full article…
The Outstater
ALTHOUGH THE DEBATE is over as to whether equality should be “of opportunity” or “of results” (we lost), there are doubts that still nag. The bullet points below reflect our random thoughts denying the winning side’s promise of a better society: • There is a rise of diversity “officers” at every level from elementary school to university. We are told Read the full article…
Morris: AD 2020 — the Long View
by Leo Morris Time magazine, demonstrating the legacy media’s continued decline into irrelevance, has deemed 2020 “the worst year ever.” No, not hardly, and that claim is easily dismissed with an expansion of Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” If you are reading this, you are not dead yet. Ergo, not the worst year ever. There Read the full article…
Franke: A Christmas Hope for All
by Mark Franke A good friend of mine, now sainted, was a professor of theology at our local Lutheran seminary. He had a brilliant mind that was manifested in a pastoral heart. He was known for his pithy statements, expressing profound points in a handful of words. Recently I was reminded of one such. It Read the full article…
