The Outstater
Let’s see if you can remember when Gov. Eric Holcomb said this: “With the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line of defense, As governor, I will defend your right to be free of socialism and tyranny. Your Second Amendment right to keep your family safe and your freedom Read the full article…
Morris: The Bald Eagle
by Leo Morris I noticed in a couple of recent news reports that Indiana has been made safe again for the bald eagle, which is a simple piece of good news worth celebrating in this era riven by an angry partisan divide and political revenge disguised as a plea for unity. The eagle, a bird Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
HERE IS A PROPOSAL to help bring us back together after this week’s bizarre inauguration. It involves restraint and precision in the use of our words, something that George Orwell encouraged in his “Politics and the English Language.” “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — Read the full article…
Morris: A Day of Reckoning
by Leo Morris There will come a day of reckoning. No matter how often that is said about the reckless abandon with which Washington keeps adding to the national debt, officials keep printing and borrowing so they can keep spending money they do not have. And they will keep doing it until Stein’s Law kicks Read the full article…
The Outstater
INDIANA SEN. TODD YOUNG in a widely circulated column this week unpacked some Lincolnesque but tired bromides on his way to addressing the calamity that is America. We are not enemies but friends and fellow Americans, he instructs. That and we should do less shouting and more listening. The senator’s little homily, though, hid a personal concern, one to be examined in a moment. First, Read the full article…
Morris: News Filters Aren’t New
by Leo Morris I participated in a PBS TV show last week – three General Assembly watchers and a host doing our annual legislative preview session – and it was a little unsettling. Because of the pandemic, only two participants were in-studio – properly distanced, of course – and two of us chimed in remotely Read the full article…
