Watts: A Letter From the Future Constitutional Republic
by Tyler Watts, Ph.D. Dear President Obama: This may sound strange to you coming from someone like me, but here goes: Thanks for awakening the American people to the dangers of excessive government. Your actions raised an alarm that inaugurated the most radical fiscal reform in America since the 16th Amendment. Let me explain. Your presidency brought the term “trillion-dollar Read the full article…
Quick Hit: City Unions
In a May 10 article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Two on Council Favor Limiting Unions,” union officials express surprise that their council would be considering legislation that might end mandatory collective bargaining with city employees. Both officials were active and welcome participants at an all-day Indiana Policy Review Foundation seminar last year titled Read the full article…
Watts on Article V: ‘Our Constitutional Moment’
Editor’s Note: The Mount Vernon Assembly, a group organized by Indiana Senate President Pro-Tem David Long to study constitutional reform, held its second meeting June 12-13 in Indianapolis. The group, made up of currently serving state legislators throughout the nation, first met in December 2013 to begin discussing the states’ ability to amend the U.S. Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (24): Massacre at Fall Creek Tested Frontier Justice
by Andrea Neal In 1975, Jessamyn West wrote a novel based on a true yet astonishing Indiana story. The Massacre at Fall Creek recounts the 1824 murders of nine Indians in Madison County and the ensuing trial and death sentences of the white male perpetrators. In the last chapter, a respected white preacher by the Read the full article…
Quick Hit: Wind Farms
by Scott Smith Talk about conflicted: What is a free-market disciple to think about the prospect of wind farms? That’s the discussion I had with Craig Ladwig, editor of the Indiana Policy Review, and a decided fence sitter when it comes to wind farms. For those unfamiliar with IPR, they’re a conservative bunch, but with Read the full article…
The Outstater: Republicanism’s ‘Big Mistake’
“We stand athwart history, yelling stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” — William F. Buckley in his 1955 mission statement for National Review magazine INDIANA IS AN EXAMPLE, a bad one, of what a friend dubs “Republicanism,” Read the full article…
