Backgrounder: The New Indiana Business Courts
by Judge Dan Heath In June of 2012, while doing research on another matter on the website for the National Center for State Courts, I happened upon a number of articles dealing with the concept of business courts. I was intrigued by the idea because throughout some 16 years on the bench at that time, Read the full article…
The Outstater: The Pence Amoeba and ‘Fee-for-Service’
TO WATCH THE PENCE CAMPAIGN is to watch a lab experiment in biological tropism. The word picture is a group of amoebas on a microscope slide reflexively retreating this way and that as someone (we suspect Matt Tulley, the Star columnist) threatens them with a pencil tip. First there was the about-face on protecting Christian merchants Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The Truth About Growth
by John Gaski, Ph.D. A perennial, or at least quadrennial, staple of Democratic Party argumentation is the claim that economic-growth rates under Democratic presidents outpace those under Republican presidents. Recently, Hillary Clinton resurrected this familiar mantra. But a closer look at the numbers tells a different story. Every president’s economic record benefits (or suffers) from Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (78): Eugene Debs
by Andrea Neal “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.” With those words — and a few more Read the full article…
White Paper: Student-Based Budgeting
“Aristocracy is society’s default position. For those who stand at America’s commanding heights, social and income mobility is precisely what must be opposed, and a broken educational system wonderfully serves the purpose.” ― F.H. Buckley in “The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America” The late Dr. Charlie Rice, a Notre Dame law professor and Read the full article…
The Outstater: Why not Import a Mayor?
by Craig Ladwig The mayor of my city is an average fellow. That is said in a good way. He can relate to the regulars of any neighborhood tavern. And except for the occasional Republican challenger, he has a nice word for everyone. He is a man who clearly means well. Our mayor’s previous jobs Read the full article…
