Morris: Manufactured Crises
by Leo Morris “We’re All Going to Die!” Imagine seeing a headline like that. Naturally you can’t ignore such a story. So, palms sweating and perhaps heart fluttering, you begin to read, dreading news of a ghastly plague sweeping the globe or a brewing nuclear war or even an unstoppable meteor the size of Texas Read the full article…
Morris: Squelching History
by Leo Morris Does it embarrass you to know that the Ku Klux Klan was once such a dominant force in Indiana? Want to ignore that whole sorry episode from our past and never mention it again? Or should we teach it in our schools as a way to remind the oppressors’ descendants of the Read the full article…
Franke: What’s Happened with the Police?
by Mark Franke Senator Elizabeth Warren pronounced recently that the police in Ferguson, Missouri, were guilty of murder in spite of the fact that a grand jury and the Obama Justice Department exonerated them. No matter to Sen. Warren, who has a propensity to play fast and loose with the truth. Witness her claim to Read the full article…
Keating: A New School Year
by Maryann O. Keating It is almost September and classes have begun or are about to start. We detect some reluctance in students, but not in adds for school supplies or with summer-weary parents. Parents and retailers are more than ready. For teachers as well, there is inevitably an autumn bounce in starting anew and Read the full article…
Morris: Gov. Holcomb and ‘Brand X’
by Leo Morris Gov. Eric Holcomb always looks so comfortably stern, like an accountant at tax time waiting for his client’s big gulp of ulcer medicine to kick in. He needs a good nickname to lighten his image. Something like “Fuzzy,” the sidekick for one of those singing cowboys, there mostly for comic relief but Read the full article…
Indiana Policy Review Guilty of Scuttling Islandic Summit
THE HEADLINE is an exaggeration for effect, as modern journalists now define lying. The government, you see, is deciding whether to “red flag” us for one thing or another, and, most ominously, what the criteria for such a flagging should be. In the meantime, we have our own red flags, one warning of a media Read the full article…
