Backgrounder: ‘Mad Anthony’ to the Ramparts
For the use of the membership only (673 words). NOW THAT NEW ORLEANS has rid itself of Robert E. Lee, et al., it surely must be Fort Wayne’s turn. How long can it be, given the new rules of acceptable statuary, before someone smashes Gen. Anthony Wayne to smithereens? For if political correctness is the measure, Read the full article…
Book Review: A ‘Florida’ Vacation? Rethinking Eco-Devo
(For release May 26 and thereafter.) by Jason Arp Being a city councilman in a medium-sized city, you are going to come across the writings of Dr. Richard Florida in one way or another. Real estate developers, Chambers of Commerce heads and politicians of all stripes have learned that Florida’s concept of “quality of place” Read the full article…
The Outstater: All the Sanctimony Fit to Print
(Not for publication; for the use of the membership only.) A FEW DAYS AGO the top story on the front page of our morning newspaper was not the threat of a North Korean nuclear attack or the chaos in Washington. It wasn’t even the impact of increased state taxes on a dwindling middle class. No, it was that a Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: The Silence on Private Property
“Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws.” — Frederic Bastiat by Craig Ladwig Watching last night’s meeting of our city council, the fellow in the next chair leaned over to Read the full article…
Backgrounder: First Amendment Fantasies
“We are not fake news. We are not failing news organizations. And we are not the enemy of the American people.” — Jeff Mason, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association by Craig Ladwig It is a question that has dogged some of us for years: If it is a good thing to break up Wall Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Yes, Capitalism Is a Good Idea
by Cmdr. John Pickerill All the prosperity we enjoy today we owe to capitalism. For decades progressivists have attempted to challenge this notion. One of the most notable was Phil Donahue in his 1979 interview with Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Donahue posed this question to Friedman: “When you see around the globe Read the full article…
