The Outstater
THE INDIANA GOP is celebrating that the Party’s Black and Hispanic vote increased slightly Nov. 3. The leadership, however, might have stopped patting itself on the back long enough to join a lawsuit seeking to ensure that those Black and Hispanic votes will matter. Indiana was not among 10 states that filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Read the full article…
‘Jeopardy!’ Without Alex Trebek?
by Leo Morris I’m taking a break from brooding over the latest COVID-19 surge and cursing the chaos of the presidential race so I can properly mourn the passing of longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek. And, of course, obsess over who will be chosen to replace him. “Please, please, please,” I texted my sister (and Read the full article…
Morris: Big Government, Type 1
by Leo Morris After Joe Biden was projected the winner of the presidential election, I read many variations of this sentiment, written by Frank Rich in New York Magazine: “The good news that comes with the potential Biden presidency is that there will be an honest and decent man in the White House, buttressed by a Read the full article…
Biden Has his ‘Mandate,’ We Have Ours
TO BE CLEAR, the concern here is with Hoosier Republican representation, and the most conservative of it at that. Modern Democrats can be assumed to be venal, and Joe Biden, who has proclaimed himself president, is as good an example as you will find. But in Indiana, the land of the ever-so-conservatively postured Dan Coats and Eric Holcomb, there is Read the full article…
Sounding the Alarm
WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS in the hands of lawyers and partisan election officials we have the time to ponder the relative silence of the Hoosier congressional delegation, our direct and only line to Washington. In that regard, consider this, a statement on the week’s events from Claremont’s the American Mind: “If Republicans let this happen without pushing Read the full article…
The Outstater
“The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” – Friedrich A. Hayek, 1944 THE BOARDED-UP storefronts on election day in downtown Indianapolis are a picture of what happens when private property is denigrated; for it is not just Read the full article…
