Half Past the Month
(For the use of the membership only.) “May you live in interesting times.” — Chinese curse HAVE YOU NOTICED anything different about your Republican friends? Your co-workers? The market researchers tell us that they are more “engaged” politically. That may be a nice way of saying more opinionated. This is good, or eventually so. Read the full article…
Huston: The Orlando Mass Murder
by TOM HUSTON The candidates each sent out a fund-raising email on Monday and the difference in emphasis was stark: Hillary: “We cannot demonize Muslim people.” Trump: “We are going to make America safe again.” ISIS EMPHASIZES soft targets and encourages “lone wolf” (falsely identified as “self-radicalized”) or small units, easy to organize and hard Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (79): Klan Had Short-Lived Power Here
by Andrea Neal During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan took Indiana by storm. Ninety years later Hoosiers still struggle to grasp why. The secretive brotherhood launched its Indiana recruitment efforts in Evansville in 1920. Within four years, Hoosier Klansmen numbered 250,000 and represented every corner of the state. “Members included ministers, mayors, shopkeepers and Read the full article…
Huston: The Death Wish of the ‘Stupid’ Party
(For the use of the membership only; not for publication, duplication or quotation.) “We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. I’m very proud to be a member of the stupid party. Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that’s both Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The New Indiana Business Courts
by Judge Dan Heath In June of 2012, while doing research on another matter on the website for the National Center for State Courts, I happened upon a number of articles dealing with the concept of business courts. I was intrigued by the idea because throughout some 16 years on the bench at that time, Read the full article…
The Outstater: The Pence Amoeba and ‘Fee-for-Service’
TO WATCH THE PENCE CAMPAIGN is to watch a lab experiment in biological tropism. The word picture is a group of amoebas on a microscope slide reflexively retreating this way and that as someone (we suspect Matt Tulley, the Star columnist) threatens them with a pencil tip. First there was the about-face on protecting Christian merchants Read the full article…
