The Outstater
Welcome to the Kipling Cluster EVER WONDER where you fit in society — exactly, that is? I wonder, and it’s ugly. There’s the eye color, a physical characteristic akin to skin pigment, one that can be used to discriminate by a brown-eyed majority. The blue-eyed in America stand at only 25 percent and dropping, a mere 8 Read the full article…
The Outstater
No, Dr. Whitten, We’re Not Equal “We are not the party of identity politics, you utter idiots.” Ann Coulter critiquing the GOP response to the State of the Union. READING THE WORDING in the 74 bills that Gov. Holcomb signed into law this week, you were struck by the hypersensitivity to offending even slightly any segment of Read the full article…
Franke: Trump as Andrew Jackson
by Mark Franke It is a matter of discipline with me to avoid listening to political speeches. They are hardly edifying and the current trend is a pronounced one toward less and less enlightenment each time a politician rises to his legs and starts talking. Last week’s State of the Union address by President Biden Read the full article…
The Outstater
IU Tenure and the Heidt Memo WE APPLAUD the Indiana Legislature’s revolutionary attempts this session to reign in group-think and lockstep tenure in the university system. It’s about time. We call it “revolutionary” in the sense the Founder’s used the term and as it is explained in our newly published “Indiana Mandate: A Return to the Read the full article…
Indiana Mandate: A Return to Founding Principles
Help Us Host a Signing Party The book is on sale! We have begun scheduling signing parties in advance of July 4th celebrations and the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tell us who you want to invite and pick a time, date and place. We’ll do the rest, asking nationally syndicated cartoonist Gary Varvel or one of our Read the full article…
Franke: The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence
by Mark Franke It seems one can’t pick up a newspaper or journal without seeing a major piece on artificial intelligence. 9Until perhaps a year or so ago, I hadn’t even heard the term except in science fiction and now it gets more Google hits than Taylor Swift’s antics at a Kansas City Chiefs football Read the full article…
