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Women Journalists Stressed AN INDIANAPOLIS EDITOR is crusading for more gentlemanly treatment of female journalists. She says they are being merciless trolled by online critics, suspiciously male. After a generation of “I am woman; hear me roar,” we aren’t going to put that on our worry list. An editor for the Capital Chronicle cites a United Nations study Read the full article…
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Hooray for Rokita, Braun TWO MORE OF THE ISSUES in our latest “Indiana Mandate” were taken up this week: The U.S. House wisely chose a single time standard and, more importantly, Indiana rejected socially ruinous affirmative action. Todd Rokita, Indiana Attorney General, issued a formal opinion stating that race and sex-based components of state contracting programs are unconstitutional. Read the full article…
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Indiana’s Muslim Test THE NEED to confront the Muslim scourge in our cities is dividing the Republican Party — or so you would expect. In Indiana, however, only Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is speaking out while other GOP leaders sit silent for fear that Julia Carson’s grandson, Andre, will call them bigots. Indeed, the governor upbraided Beckwith for not choosing his words more carefully, Read the full article…
Franke: Summer Parades
by Mark Franke It’s officially high summer according to the thermometer and, most importantly, according to the school vacation calendar. In the past that meant lots of community parades on Saturdays, most of which were aligned with that town’s summer festival week. Most of Fort Wayne’s surrounding towns had them. I know, because my Navy Read the full article…
Gaski: A Filibuster Primer
by John F. Gaski, Ph.D. A prominent political dilemma for Republicans is whether to abolish the Senate filibuster rule. Do so, and legislation will no longer require 60 votes for passage, only a simple majority. Doing so would also abandon a deliberative tradition in force since the mid-1800s. However, there presently is an overhang of another vital concern, Read the full article…
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Civilizing our ‘Youths’ THE REALITY IS that a couple of generations of urban juveniles have not been socialized — have not been civilized, if you will. The solutions are difficult but generally understood. The problem is in what sequence they should be applied. Both Indianapolis and Fort Wayne experienced multiple shootings over the July 4 weekend involving numbers Read the full article…
