Franke: Insanity Defense
by Mark Franke To listen to typical conversations these days, one can easily get the impression that most issues have simple answers. It seems that no matter the question at hand, the responses are quick in coming and declarative to the extreme. One friend of mine ends his strongly opinionated statements with “Period!”. That is Read the full article…
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Muslim Sensitivities “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” — G.K. Chesterton WE HAVE WAITED long enough for someone in the GOP leadership to defend the lieutenant governor’s right to describe Islam as “demonic,” to hate it even. That none has done so says a lot about the Indiana Republican Party. The Council on American-Islamic Read the full article…
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‘Affordable’ Housing “A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop,’ at a time when no one is inclined to do so.” — Mission Statement, the National Review READING UP on the Indianapolis “Vacant to Vibrant” housing plan, I’m honestly having trouble differentiating it from Zohran Mamdani’s New York City. Both assume that “affordable” housing Read the full article…
Franke: Memorial Day 2026
by Mark Frank Memorial Day is here again and much of our attention will be on those who died in service to their, our, country. As a popular meme says: All gave some. Some gave all. It is those who gave all that focus our memories now, while in November we thank everyone who served. Read the full article…
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Horse Thieves Matter THE SON OF PIONEERS in the Flint Hills of Kansas, my sheriff grandfather was familiar with the story of “the Sedgwick County Anti-Horse-Thieving Association” — or the SCAHTA as it was never known because they were blessedly free of acronyms back then. Let us just say that it would not have fit into the defund-the-police messaging, Read the full article…
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James Briggs: The New Journalism WE DON’T ENJOY discouraging a fellow journalist. First of all, nobody cares. It is “inside baseball,” as an editor of mine liked to say. Our members have more important things to do. Still, any job has standards and after some decades in the business (note that I didn’t say “profession”) I have a Read the full article…
