The Outstater
Education: Partisan Is Good BIPARTISANSHIP, the comedian George Carlin famously said, usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. That has been our experience with school board elections. Back in the 1980s we allowed the local political machines, some of them actively corrupt and all of them black at heart, to control the election Read the full article…
McGowan: Rethinking ‘Diversity’
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. Last week the Indianapolis Star reported on “Senate Bill 235: Banning DEI.” The Star said that “this bill bans all state spending on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — from trainings to diverse hiring initiatives — at state agencies, educational institutions and health profession licensing boards.” The bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by Read the full article…
The Outstater
Diversity Has its Limits LISTENING TO BLACK LEGISLATORS at the Statehouse this week protesting Gov. Mike Braun’s dismantling of DEI, it was clear they are driven by sincere conviction. They believe there are many more people like them who deserve to be, say, surgeons, judges, engineers and pilots, but are being unfairly denied. Oh, you should Read the full article…
Franke: Cultural Change and the Decline of the Family
by Mark Franke “The changing structure of the family unit has degraded cultural values and economic stability.” This was the provocation addressed recently by my Socratic discussion group. We call our monthly topic a “provocation” because it should provoke probing questions and lively debate. This one did, so much so that near the end of our mandatory two-hour limit Read the full article…
The Outstater
‘Counterfeit’ Journalism THE LEGACY MEDIA, exemplified by our own Indianapolis Star, is having a problem exerting authority — it has none. Nonetheless, its editors and columnists still affect the tone of earlier days when their titles were depended upon to sort out the morning’s news. Columnists Michael Hicks, James Briggs and Abdul-Haikin Shabazz have assumed the concocted morality of Read the full article…
Gaski: Daylight Saving Time Redux
by John Gaski, Ph.D. Officials of both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government have recently sounded off on the prospect of eliminating Daylight-Saving Time, i.e., ditching the inconvenient semi-annual clock change observed in most of the U.S. The highest official of all, President Trump, is a proponent. This development resurrects the specter Read the full article…
