The Outstater
Chicago Politics, Indiana Style WHAT KIND OF CITY would you have if venal operators could be rewarded with municipal contracts relative to their political contributions — aside of course from the obvious moral degradation? Let me help answer that. You would have a city that functions to serve arbitrary goals, ones that conform not to citizen priorities but Read the full article…
Morris: Who Owns the History?
by Leo Morris The Kokomo Tribune has published a fascinating story about teachers-in-training at Indiana State University and their nearly universal disapproval of proposed state legislation that would limit how race and other topics are treated in the classroom. Some of their comments are quite revealing. “If we attempt to teach history without controversy, then we Read the full article…
The Outstater
Cronyism: The Republican Malady HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what’s wrong with the Indiana Republican Party? No, I don’t mean blithely welcoming large groups of random Afghans that we learn may have included security threats now in hiding. And no, I don’t mean sending the head of the state police to the Statehouse to override the Second Amendment. Read the full article…
Franke: Christian Persecution Hits Home
by Mark Franke “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.” (Matthew 5:11 ESV) He did warn us. Christians have been persecuted throughout history but always elsewhere. So why here? And why now? This is America, a nation founded on unalienable Read the full article…
Morris: The ‘Quilhot Bid’
by Leo Morris I have a new phrase to add to your vocabulary and self-help guide: the Quilhot bid. It comes from Russ Quilhot, who hosted the weekly afternoon card games a group of us old codgers participated in. I played bridge with him Wednesday before last. On Thursday he died. It was one of Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
The Lost Art of Defenestration SOME OF US are getting a handle on how the Legislature works: Somewhere in the continuous rounds of lunches and dinner parties, the leadership is told by the most activated lobbyists that a certain set of issues is to be given priority this session. All else must jockey for a place Read the full article…
