Franke: ‘Splitting’ Off
by Mark Franke When did we as Americans plunge into the abyss of demonizing everyone with whom we disagree? It wasn’t this way for the first 30 years of my life. Some of the most fulfilling times of my undergraduate days were spent debating philosophy, religion and politics with friends of what was then the left Read the full article…
Menge: Who Owns Indiana’s Voting Machines?
by Margaret Menge The question of who owns voting machines and the software they run on has resurfaced since the Nov. 3 election with the Trump campaign pointing fingers at Smartmatic, which was started by three Venezuelans. One company that has escaped scrutiny thus far is Hart InterCivic, the third-largest maker of voting machines in the Read the full article…
Morris: It’s 2020 — What’s Next?
by Leo Morris It’s such a perfect little story to illustrate this awful, awful year of the pandemic, cities overtaken by anarchy and an election from hell. A deer jumped through a window into an empty classroom at Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne. After trashing the room for 45 minutes, the deer jumped back Read the full article…
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…
