The Outstater
Hey, It Sounded Good For the use of the membership only. I WAS SURPRISED and disappointed in Indiana’s ranking on the just-released Internal Revenue Service report on interstate migration. I subscribe to the boosterish Indianapolis Business Journal, you see, and it seems hardly a summer goes by that it doesn’t report the governor is wheels up to Europe, Read the full article…
Cummins: More Eco-Devo, a Citizen’s Lament
“Hotel Coming to Site of Old VCSC Building” — Terre Haute Tribune, July 26, 2024 by Ryan Cummins I write to you about another in a long list of eco-devo (economic development) scams, a particularly obscene one. That it is presented as a straight news story in a humdrum manner is even more disheartening. But then, I don’t expect Read the full article…
Franke: Disarming Rhetorical Violence
by Mark Franke My monthly Socratic discussion group met in mid-July with the intent of examining the proposition that China represents an existential threat to the United States. We call our monthly topics, distributed in advance with a suggested reading list, provocations due to their inherent controversy. We expect all the heat to be in Read the full article…
McGowan: Crime — Inequities? What Inequities
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. When my boys attended North Central High School in the 1990s, the principal of the school and subsequent Butler honorary-degree-holder Dr. Eugene White called a special assembly. The assembly was special because Dr. White, a black man, required only black, male students to attend. He had seen the data about the behavior of black boys and he Read the full article…
The Outstater
An Election Year Poser I’m going to need some help with this. Where is the political authority, let alone moral authority, for a self-styled champion of Americans descendant from sub-Saharan African slaves, whose father is descendant from a Jamaican slave owner and mother a member of a high Hindu caste, both immigrants, to speak in Indianapolis, where Read the full article…
The Outstater
Beware of ‘Trustworthy Guys’ I DON’T OFTEN draw parallels between Venezuela and Indiana but when I do they keep me up at night. Venezuelan President Nicolas Madura is attracting U.S. investors by fashioning himself as “pro-business,” reports the Wall Street Journal. This is a Marxist who oversaw the economic collapse of his nation and the exodus of a quarter of its citizenry. “Your Read the full article…
