Franke: A Draft-Card Story
by Mark Franke I’m not a veteran, and therein lies a story. I was in college during the height of the Vietnam War and all the protests that were de rigueur on college campuses in those days. I was getting sick of going to school and since I was a a card-carrying member of Young Read the full article…
Morris: The GOP’s Moral Knot
by Leo Morris This is a quiet, unassuming little state, isn’t it? While scandals from Washington bubble and froth in the social media septic tank, accusations of sexual malpractice against two of the most powerful Indiana GOP politicians drip like slow leaks too inconsequential to bother with. We can only conclude that our journalists are Read the full article…
Franke: The Balanced Budget Amendment
by Mark Franke One of the strengths of American representative democracy is the requirement in most states for the voters to approve amendments to their state constitutions. This election cycle alone can boast of 37 states with 167 amendments and other initiatives, those in Florida and North Carolina getting the most press coverage and producing Read the full article…
Morris: A History of Negative Campaigns
by Leo Morris We’ve all heard that if we can’t remember the past, we are condemned to repeat it. But the truth is that even when we remember it, we repeat it anyway. We can’t help ourselves. As Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote in a 1930 letter: “It’s not true that life is one damn Read the full article…
Van Cott: Lincoln’s Trade Epiphany
by T. Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. In discussions of international trade, the pervasive mindset is that exports are a positive entry in a country’s “economic well-being” ledger, while imports are a negative entry in the ledger. In other words, exports are intrinsically “good” and imports intrinsically “bad.” Who hasn’t heard that imports “destroy” jobs while Read the full article…
Morris: Political Parties
by Leo Morris Earlier this month, I came across this Tweet from a liberalish Lafayette attorney whose blog I have followed for a few years: “I didn’t watch the Senate debate. I do know that Trump is an incessant liar with bad ideas. Joe Donnelly will vote against him sometimes & Mike Braun never will. Read the full article…
