Backgrounder: Social Security, a Christian Objection
By Tyler Watts, Ph.D. I recently heard a politician promise that he would protect Social Security, arguing that this vaunted program is an inviolable “contract” between the government and seniors. Hah. Now, this politician was just doing what comes naturally; that is, saying anything to appease a particular voting bloc, in this case the powerful Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (36): Indiana Family Helped Slaves Escape
by Andrea Neal Once runaway slaves made it to the home of Levi and Catharine Coffin in eastern Indiana, they were safe. Truly safe. To the best of Levi Coffin’s knowledge, every slave who passed through his Underground Railroad station made his/her way to freedom. The Coffins lived in a mostly Quaker community called Newport, Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: A Hyphenated-American Appeal
by Craig Ladwig “It’s anybody’s guess how Republicans are thinking about this (open immigration),” Barack Obama said in Los Angeles last week. “If they were thinking long-term politically, it is suicide for them not to do this.” I hate to drag my great-grandmother into this, but she would have a point to make: Being “American” Read the full article…
Doc Ippel: Medicare and Deciding About Decisions
by Bruce Ippel, M.D. This is about decisions. It starts with your decision to read it. What about the other decisions in your life? If you’re an adult with, say, a high-school education and not currently in the Army or prison, then you should be making about all of them yourself. Or not. You probably Read the full article…
King: Mixing Politics, Religion and Millennials
By Stephen M. King, Ph.D. Millennials, the age cohort between 18 and 29 who came of adult age around 2000 or so, are poised to impact the world around them. In some ways, they are scattered in their views, but in others they are consistently inconsistent. Still, this generation of nearly 60 million can and Read the full article…
Outstater: Holy Underwear, Let’s Make Some Policy
A FRIEND in the political science department at Taylor University argues that Indiana politicians have a spiritual problem, not a policy problem. Those of us in the policy-review business understandably have resisted this contention — until now. A weekend viewing of a classic Western parody brought me around. It was the scene in Blazing Saddles Read the full article…
