Morris: Sen. Todd Young Fails ‘the Penny Test’
by Leo Morris You’ve likely run into this little riddle before: Would you rather have $1 million or an amount that results from starting with a penny and doubling it every day for 30 days? Even if you don’t know the quiz or bother to do the elementary math, you can tell it’s a trick Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Paying People to Live Here
by David Penticuff It is promising for my community that the spending of its county economic growth council is coming under official scrutiny this summer. Historically, the council has gotten most of its yearly funding from the Economic Development Income Tax (EDIT), a local income tax for county residents. While the so-called growth council started as a Read the full article…
Van Cott: The Truly Amazing Free Market
by T. Norman Van Cott The longer I taught economics to university students, the more I came to appreciate subtleties in markets grounded in secure private property rights. Indeed, as my awareness of these subtleties developed, a sense of awe arose. The subtleties go far beyond that typically drilled into freshmen and sophomores. Let’s put Read the full article…
Huston: The Scandal Watch
The author, an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review and a former associate counsel to the president of the United States, served as an officer in the United States Army assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency. RECALL THAT THE SO-CALLED ‘SMOKING GUN’ TAPE that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation was of a June 1972 Read the full article…
Morris: A Property Rights Saga
by Leo Morris Both ends of the alley behind my house were blocked one day last week. It annoyed me no end. But it also set me to thinking about the need to vigorously defend our private property rights even as we acknowledge the proper place of public property in the grand scheme of things. Read the full article…
The Outstater: Journalism for Dummies
A FRIEND EXPRESSED ADMIRATION for how quickly I was able to go through the morning newspaper. No, I explained, I’m not a speed reader. Reductions in newsroom staffing have had a lot to do with it, but also I am aided by a lifetime of amalgamated discernment. I know which stories can be ignored at no Read the full article…
