The Indiana GOP: Catching a Slippery Pig
“The 17 percent of voters (both Republican and Democrat) who now say most of Congress deserves re-election is well below the roughly 40 percent threshold that has historically been associated with major electoral turnover. With this in mind, Congress could be in for a major shake-up.” — Gallup’s annual Mood of the Nation poll, conducted Read the full article…
Huston: Religious Liberty and the Public Peace
(For the use of the membership only.) by Tom Charles Huston A few weeks before the delegates to the Continental Congress resolved for independence, the Fifth Virginia Convention meeting in Williamsburg adopted a Declaration of Rights drafted in large part by George Mason. It was one of a number of pre-Revolutionary documents marking the advance Read the full article…
Bohanon: Must Politics Be Nasty? (Part II)
by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. American political discourse has degenerated over the last few decades to little more than vicious juvenile banter. A small but helpful step in restoring civility is to work to understand why those we disagree with believe what they believe. An economic blogger and scholar, Arnold Kling, suggests American politics can be Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: Preschool, a Cynical View
For the use of the membership only (683 words). Cynic n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. — The Devil’s Dictionary of Ambrose Bierce THE GOVERNOR didn’t need to throw data at us this week in his State of the State address. We all agree Read the full article…
Schansberg: How We Measure ‘Poverty’
(For the use of the membership only) by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the “war on poverty.” That is true, at least in terms of its enacting legislation, with spending expanded a bit under Lyndon Johnson and especially under Richard Nixon. One of the first observations to Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (16): Frontier Violence at Pigeon Roost
by Andrea Neal On Sept. 3, 1812, a Native American war party killed more than 20 settlers living in a wooded outpost near present-day Scottsburg. Motivated by bounties offered by the British, the perpetrators scalped women and children, torched their log cabins and left the village in ashes. The Massacre at Pigeon Roost is the Read the full article…
