Book Review: A Real Liberal Dresses Down the Phony Ones
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. I’ve grown fond of saying that the world would be a much better place if we had many more real conservatives and liberals. For example, imagine how much public life would improve if we had many more people who were as tolerant and compassionate as a lot of “liberals” claim to Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Regional Development and Higher Taxes
by Jason Arp In the committee chambers of my council recently we heard something that could significantly affect the future of my city and the surrounding 11-county area. A veteran councilman announced there would be a discussion in January of a new tax to be collected by way of an increase in the Community Economic Read the full article…
Huston: The Electoral College
by Tom Charles Huston The original concept of the Electoral College was that each state by popular election or through its state legislature would select its best men who would consult among themselves and cast ballots for the two men in the country they deemed most fit to hold the presidency and vice presidency of Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Cuba Can’t Blame U.S. Embargo
by T. Norman Van Cott A recent letter to my hometown newspaper included an erroneous assumption regarding the now decades-old debate about the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Debaters, both pro and con, take it as given that Cubans would be inundated with things American should the embargo be lifted. Nothing could be further from the Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (99): 9/11 Etched in Hoosier Memories
by Andrea Neal Sept. 11, 2001. The very mention of that date sends chills down the spine of all Hoosiers, indeed all Americans, who lived through it. It was the day that terrorists from the Middle East turned commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction, killing nearly 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the Read the full article…
Huston: The Blaine Campaign
by Tom Charles Huston History may not repeat, but it forewarns. James G. Blaine was the preeminent Republican of his time. Speaker of the House of Representatives, United States Senator, Secretary of State during the brief presidency of James Garfield and unsuccessful candidate for the White House in 1884, Blaine was known by his friends Read the full article…
