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‘Home’ Needs Some Definition COMMUNITY TRUST is breaking down as crime becomes more wanton, the roads are disintegrating in sub-zero temperatures and the city budget is not prioritized. So what is our mayor doing? Bringing casino gambling to town and establishing government grocery stores, to repeat complaints of mine, plus some new diversions. Among the last is Read the full article…
Keating: Drama at the Federal Reserve
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. The Trump-Powell feud over the interest rate is Shakespearean. Who knew that monetary policy could be so riveting? At this point, Kevin Warsh has emerged from a list of pretenders as President Trump’s nominee for the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), replacing Jerome Powell. The big question Read the full article…
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Return of the 1-Room Schoolhouse SCHOOL CHOICE, an issue championed by the Indiana Policy Review Foundation since its beginning, has taken root. Thirty-four states including Indiana have adopted some form of school choice, with 1.5 million students participating. Now another of the foundation’s early recommendations, micro schools, is gaining attention as well — a high-tech version of the Read the full article…
Franke: Avoiding Another ‘Oil War’
by Mark Franke It seems that every time gas prices jump up at the pump, politicians are quick to find media microphones to blame Big Oil or the Arabs or the previous administration. That’s what we do best these days — find someone to blame. It saves mental energy otherwise wasted on research and analysis. Read the full article…
McGowan: Marx and the Mayor
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. For people who are uncertain about whether the mayor of New York is indeed a socialist, and a Marxist at that, it is worth reading his inaugural address in light of the “measures” Marx proposed at the end of The Communist Manifesto’s section II and other scattered ideas. Of course, parallels Read the full article…
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Beau Bayh to the Rescue ONE SUPPOSES now that Beau Bayh has drawn on his vast criminal forensic experience to explicate the Minneapolis chaos for us — “Participation in a protest and lawful firearm possession are not justification for the use of deadly force” — there’s not much left to say. Before we leave the subject, though, Read the full article…
