WHITE PAPER: Students from China Bring Big Money and Clout to Indiana University
The author, an alumnus of Indiana University, is a veteran journalist now working from Bloomington. She has reported for U.S. News & World Report, the Miami Herald, Columbia Journalism Review, Breitbart, the New York Observer and the American Conservative. by MARGARET MENGE March 6 was a busy morning on the campus of Indiana University. Every seat in Read the full article…
The Outstater
REACTING IN PART to protests hundreds of miles away, our Republican county chairman has asserted his “wokeness” by welcoming the resignation of a county councilman rebuked for a racial comment and nominating a black female lawyer as the replacement. And he pulled the name from an affirmative-action hat, a bipartisan one if that makes any sense. Does this heal our wounds, Read the full article…
Morris: Bob’s ‘Big Boy’
by Leo Morris In 1936, Bob Wian sold his car and used the $350 as a down payment on a 10-stool diner in Glendale, Calif., which he turned into a hamburger joint called Bob’s Pantry. Shortly, thereafter, the story goes, two things happened. Members of an orchestra stopped in and asked if Wian could come Read the full article…
Schansberg: ‘Systemic’ Racism
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. “It’s a black thing; you wouldn’t understand.” There’s a lot of truth to that statement. It’s difficult for any of us to understand each other — especially when we’re in different social classes, have different ethnicities or varying personal circumstances. At its best, the slogan is a call to learn and deepen Read the full article…
The Outstater
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.” — 1919, Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods of the Read the full article…
Morris: The Police — Back to Sir Robert Pool
by Leo Morris “To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.” – From the nine principles set out in Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel’s General Instructions issued Read the full article…
