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Unserving ‘the Unhoused’ OUR MAYOR has thrown down the NIMBY gauntlet. She is trying to shame opponents of her plan to build a $3.8 million “homeless services” center downtown, a couple of blocks from the art museum. She says they selfishly don’t want the center in their backyard but cannot offer an alternative plan. I am Read the full article…
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Let’s Pack the U.S. House GALLUP REPORTS this week that the approval rate of Congress has fallen to 10 percent. Coincidentally, a Butler graduate student, Evan Wareham, has an intriguing idea — reapportionment on steroids. What if we reformed the U.S. House of Representatives by adding members to increase per-capita representation? That, please know, was the original plan. In Read the full article…
Eichenberger: Pride — From Icarus to Instagram
by Dan Eichenberger MD, MBA Ancient civilizations recognized pride, or hubris, as a recurring human vulnerability with serious consequences. In Greek mythology and tragedy, excessive arrogance — defying natural limits or overestimating one’s place—invariably led to nemesis, or downfall. The tale of Icarus, who ignored his father’s warnings and flew too close to the sun, melting Read the full article…
Franke: Casinos
by Mark Franke There are two ways to think about governmental incentives for new commercial enterprises. One is the high-level theoretical or philosophical one. In this way of thinking, the basic question is whether government even should be involved in what essentially are free enterprise activities. The other is to accept that government, being government, Read the full article…
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“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling, ‘Stop,’ at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” ― William F. Buckley Assessing the Next Indy Mayor AS INDIANAPOLIS SLIDES into progressivism, the way to think about Democrats is not what candidates stand for but what Read the full article…
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The Unmet Demand for a Well-Rounded Education WE STRESS the importance of teaching history in our newly published Indiana Mandate. The Founders believed the country would remain free only if its people learned history’s lessons. Benjamin Franklin noted that history would show the young “the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and Read the full article…
