The Outstater: McCain and Journalism
John McCain, the anti-Trump, tells us he knows how to spot a dictator. He will be the one trying to suppress a free press. But Senator McCain was wrong about the effective range of North Vietnamese AAA fire and he is wrong about this. For starters let us assume that, by “suppressing,” McCain does not Read the full article…
Keating: Guaranteed Employment
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. In the civics section of the 2014 National Assessment of Educational Progress, eighth graders were tested on this question: “Which of the following is a belief shared by most people of the United States?” The country should have a single political party. The country should have an official religion. The Read the full article…
Schansberg: Government Groceries
Not for publication. For the use of the membership only. by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. The downtown of Louisville across the river is now a food “desert” in that it has few significant grocery stores. Last year, four prominent groceries closed there and a proposed WalMart was sacked by legal hurdles and social hassles. Grocery stores Read the full article…
Op-Ed: The Eternal ‘Red Line’ — Funded or Not
by Fred McCartney The people in this city who decided on the Palladium-to-Stadium bus route (otherwise known as the Red Line) are determined to go ahead with that plan, even though it obviously means further delay in the needed expansion of city-wide bus service to those who would use it and truly need it. While Read the full article…
Keating: Trump Trade Policy
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. There was much soul searching at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association held in Chicago last month. Four ex-chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, two Democrats and two Republicans, commented in a panel discussion on economic issues facing President Donald Trump. His proposed trade policies concerned Read the full article…
White Paper: ‘The Unraveling’
by DAVID LANTZ The author is an adjunct instructor for economics at Indiana Wesleyan University. This was written as part of the American Enterprise Institute’s “Values and Capitalism” project. (Dec 30) — The Oxford Dictionary has declared as its 2016 Word of the Year: Post-Truth, defined as: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective Read the full article…
