The Success of an ‘Annoying Child’
I LOVE TO TELL HER STORY. She is an inspiration that you can bloom where you are planted, you don’t need a high affirmative-action score or special favors to succeed. Heck, you don’t even need a college degree. Bobbi Ann Mlynar and I had the same English teacher our senior year, an eccentric word fiend who Read the full article…

The Outstater
Monsters to Destroy . . . TIME SPENT FIGHTING a foreign war, a decade writing editorials on foreign policy and several years as a foreign policy aide to a U.S. Senator have left me with a single insight. It applies to the inflection that we see developing in the Middle East and it is just this: Read the full article…

McGowan: Terrorism, War and Diversity
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. My family has felt the horrors of terrorism. Years ago, when the First Officer of Egypt Air Flight 990 piloted the aircraft into the north Atlantic while repeatedly muttering “I rely on God,” 217 people perished. Among those who were killed in this perfidious act were two of my relatives, an uncle Read the full article…

The Outstater
Gaza Perversity at IU IU STUDENTS WHO PROTESTED following the terrorist attack on Israeli homes (do we need to show you the pictures that the terrorists themselves took?) now say they were merely concerned for the lives of innocent children living from whence the terrorists came. Really? So, one morning it is announced that a Read the full article…

Franke: They’ve Gone Too Far
by Mark Franke This time they have gone too far, so far that even their usual choir of apologists have distanced themselves. The sickening images coming out of Israel are the epitome of pure evil. What compounds the horror is the response this is getting on certain elite college campuses. This should have given everyone Read the full article…

Franke: Our ‘Leaders’ — Chosen but not Liked
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.” Thomas Jefferson Find someone who will speak positively about our government these days and you will have outdone the cynic Diogenes. He merely wanted to find a wise man; we are looking for a happy and contented one. Fortunately we can let the Gallup Poll do Read the full article…

