The Outstater
Stopping and Frisking Saves Lives AS COMPLICATED as democracy is, you can clearly see it working in Marion County. You can tell by the high murder rate. Marion voters, the reasons for which they are quite proud, have decided to elect a mayor and prosecuting attorney who demonstrate their social compassion by abiding homicide. Not Read the full article…
Franke: Due Process for the Indiana National Guard
By Mark Franke One trend at the national level is the proliferation of law judges in the federal agencies. They can streamline adjudication of legitimate citizen and taxpayer issues so there is some value added. The problem is that often these cases involve fines and penalties imposed by the agency whose hearing officer is ruling Read the full article…
The Outstater
Yes, You Live in Corruption “Nothing happens until the right people own the land.”— anonymous THE MOST BASIC economic statistic is how many are coming and how many are going. So how do you explain that Indiana is now second only to Illinois in the number of people skedaddling. The national moving company Atlas says that Read the full article…
Morris: Let the Hoosier Mystique Be
by Leo Morris I have always been proud to be a Hoosier, proclaiming it boldly even to coastal snobs who almost think of it as a confession of mental deficiency. I was not born in Indiana, but I was raised enough here to have adopted its values as my own – hard work, thrift, loyalty, Read the full article…
Franke: Is This the Government We Deserve?
By Mark Franke Is This the Government We Deserve? “You get the government you deserve.” Thomas Jefferson I don’t have a Ph.D. in political science but one is hardly needed to realize something is seriously wrong with the current state of our government. It isn’t that the President commits oral gaffe after gaffe or that Read the full article…
McGowan: The Poster Children for Capitalism
By Richard McGowan, Ph.D. A person once wrote, “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.” Besides strong socialists, who would agree with that statement? Despite his statements about millionaires and billionaires, Bernie Sanders would not likely agree to the abolition of private property. He himself Read the full article…
