Morris
Redistricting: Power Delineated by Leo Morris Here’s the remarkable opening sentence of one of the many stories about the Hoosier GOP’s “disputed” and “contentious” redistricting plan: “Two independent analyses of Indiana’s redistricting maps say the districts drawn by Republicans are heavily skewed in favor of Republicans.” Seriously? The party in charge of redrawing election maps redraws them Read the full article…
Franke
Returning Civility to America’s Discourse by Mark Franke America was built by a group of people who disagreed about many things but still found enough common ground to write our Constitution and forge a stable republic. The battle for ratification had its elevated oratory, to be sure, but the new nation began in an environment Read the full article…
Franke
Is Stupidity a Dominant Gene? by Mark Franke Several weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed column entitled “You Are Living in the Golden Age of Stupidity.” That got my attention, even without my wife’s not-so-subtle hinting I should read it. The author, Lance Morrow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote a Read the full article…
Morris (bonus column)
Is Debt ‘Ceiling’ the Right Term? by Leo Morris A modest request to news organizations: Please stop referring to the federal “debt ceiling.” It is a grotesquely inappropriate term. It is preposterous to refer to something that is constantly being moved as a “ceiling,” which we all know is fixed in place forever. Remember that Read the full article…
Morris
The Public’s Right to Be Heard by Leo Morris At the conclusion of a recent Allen County Commission meeting, the commission president became annoyed with a woman who refused to shut up when her allotted time expired under the public speaking rules. He warned her that people not following the rules risked having no public Read the full article…
The Outstater
The Biden Difference CONSERVATIVES CAN STOP scoffing at Joe Biden’s statement that his $3 trillion-plus spending plan won’t cost anything. The rest of the world, and increasingly large numbers of Americans, think the same way. What he means is it won’t cost the government anything. That is because he intends to raise taxes to pay for it, and as his press secretary Read the full article…
