The Outstater
Clothes Make the Man — Sad to Say I USED TO FOLLOW men’s fashions. I had learned to trust it as a barometer of the male zeitgeist and an indication of the national direction. Men’s fashion moved more slowly than women’s and was therefore the more predicting. This was a time, please know, when men still mattered — somewhat Read the full article…
Franke: a DAR Induction
by Mark Franke I am proud of my wife. Now that can be taken as a generalization, given that we have been married for more than 50 years. But in this instance it is very specific. Earlier this month she was inducted into membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). That is a Read the full article…
Morris: Reversing ‘1984’
by Leo Morris While we were all busy monitoring the General Assembly as it slogged through proposed legislation, the Indiana Supreme Court sneaked a pretty big development in on us. After an apparently successful experiment in several jurisdictions, the justices have authorized judges throughout the state to allow cameras in courtrooms if they wish. Hoosier Read the full article…
Franke: Future of the 2-Party System Is in Question
By Mark Franke Several books and opinion columns I’ve read in the past months have sounded the death knell of the two-party system in America. Or at least encouraged those bells to toll. The basic argument is that both the Republican and Democrat parties have become too entrenched within the Washington elite so that there Read the full article…
Morris: Sniffing Out the State Smell
by Leo Morris I am not the world’s greatest housekeeper, so if you enter my home, you are likely to detect a musty, stale odor or two. I don’t notice them myself. Being around them all the time, I can easily forget they are even there. You’ve undoubtedly experienced the phenomenon. You visit a friend Read the full article…
Franke: ‘Natural Rights’ Founded on a ‘Natural Law’
By Mark Franke “[All men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The Declaration of Independence The above snippet is from the most well-known and beloved paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. School children are taught it . . . well, used to be taught it at least. Even if most adults cannot Read the full article…
