Franke: Taking a Called Third Strike
by Mark Franke My hometown minor league baseball team, the Fort Wayne TinCaps, has a bad habit of taking called third strikes. For the baseball agnostics out there, this means the batter doesn’t swing at a pitch and strikes out by doing nothing. It is extremely frustrating to the fans in the stands. I can Read the full article…
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‘Isn’t the Way This Works’ ECONOMISTS TALK ABOUT “moral hazards,” that is, situations where someone takes on excessive risk because they do not have to bear the full consequences of that risk. Essentially, it’s the idea that if someone is insulated from the negative effects of their risky behavior, they might act less cautiously than they otherwise Read the full article…
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Smaller Is Better, Local Is Best “THE AIM IS TO HAVE a society in which the great majority of people own their own homes and farms and small businesses,” wrote the Christian apologist C.K. Chesterton. That is, smaller is better and local is best in the organization of human affairs. “To be free and to be independent is Read the full article…
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The Gospel from a DEI Queen I OPENED THE PAPER this morning to be instructed by the first-ever female president of our Chamber of Commerce, a comely white woman in her middle years full of social-justice sensitivity. Now, I don’t know this woman but she knows me, a bigoted member of the unwashed in need of enlightenment. Read the full article…
Franke: Witnessing Democracy at Work
by Mark Franke (Francesville, Ind.) — It seems the epithet of choice among more than a few politicians is to charge an opponent with being “a threat to democracy.” Mostly this accusation is used against Donald Trump, his threat being primarily to the election prospects of his opponents. One can get into an endless debate on whether Read the full article…
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Hey, It Sounded Good For the use of the membership only. I WAS SURPRISED and disappointed in Indiana’s ranking on the just-released Internal Revenue Service report on interstate migration. I subscribe to the boosterish Indianapolis Business Journal, you see, and it seems hardly a summer goes by that it doesn’t report the governor is wheels up to Europe, Read the full article…
