Franke: The Declaration Parchment
by Mark Franke With the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, there is a plethora of new books written about this major event. Most focus on the Declaration’s language and its meaning, especially its most memorable sentence in the second paragraph. That’s understandable but I am a contrarian by nature so I have been wondering Read the full article…
The Outstater
Common Sense Catches Up THIRTY YEARS AGO, George Witwer, a founding scholar of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and now CEO of Cavo Health, won a dark-horse race for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor at a contested state convention. He did so campaigning on the floor, delegate-by-delegate, with a simple argument, “Property taxes mean you never Read the full article…
Gaski: U.S. Military Wins, Trump Surrender
by John F. Gaski, Ph.D. The way Donald Trump has faltered on Iran is far beyond what we could have foreseen. The latest Iran pseudo-negotiations represent another surrender by President Trump. We never thought he would cave to Iran as Biden and Obama did, but it now appears that he doesn’t have the stomach to “finish the Read the full article…
Eichenberger: A Definition of Men, Women
by Dan Eichenberger MD, MBA To prevent the further erosion of ordered society, Indiana must take a clear and permanent stand against the Left’s campaign to detach law from biological reality. Activists have spent years pressuring institutions to replace objective sex with subjective “gender identity.” The General Assembly and voters should amend the state Constitution to Read the full article…
Book Review: ‘National Treasure’ by Michael Auslin
by Mark Franke With the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, there are a lot of new books written about this major event. Most focus on the Declaration’s language and its meaning, especially its most memorable sentence in the second paragraph. One historian, Stanford’s Michael Auslin, has taken a refreshingly different approach by telling the Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Murder Most ‘Random’ IT WAS MY FAULT. Even after a gracious interview with a Capital Chronicle columnist, Stacey Compton, I didn’t get my point across, the ideological gap being just too wide. I wanted to object to the reflexive description in recent murder stories of black-on-white violence as “random.” It is anything but that. In its statistical context, the word means “being Read the full article…
