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Exposing the Eco-Devo Game AT LAST, an actually issue of critical economic importance in the governor’s race. Mike Braun has called attention to his GOP primary opponent’s role in creating a statewide eco-devo network that runs on favors and political connections. “Eric Doden has been using donations from people who received taxpayer-funded benefits while he Read the full article…
McGowan: Is Disparity a Choice?
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. About a month ago, the Indianapolis Star reported that “One of Indianapolis’s most popular charter schools is expanding to create an all-girls STEM-focused K-8 school.” Inside Indiana Business said “the school, called Girls IN STEM Academy . . . will open in partnership with the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana, Every Girl Can Read the full article…
Keating: Social Security Has Promises to Keep
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. James C. Capretta, fellow at the American Enterprise Institutes, asks, “How can the largest items in the federal budget, Social Security and Medicare, be preserved without more borrowing? (Tightening the Terms of the Social Contract, Law and Liberty, Nov. 7, 2023)” The original concept of tying retiree benefit payouts to the Read the full article…
Franke: Consent of the Governed?
by Mark Franke ”Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” These words of Thomas Jefferson can be found in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, immediately after the more recognizable “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Jefferson writes that it is to secure these Read the full article…
The Outstater
A Man Without a City I HAVE THE COMPLETE off-year election results in front of me. My analysis? God seems to use elections to warn us that democracy is not going to be our salvation. Around here, we unthinkably reelect everybody. Our top council vote-getter is a race merchant with a socialist bent. Our pay-to-play mayor won his fifth term Read the full article…
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Pausing for a Silent Moment of Malfeasance FOR A JOURNALIST, malfeasance is something for which you expect to have to dig. You are surprised to find it on top of the ground or, in this particular case, sitting on a council table wrapped up as a $50-million present to special interests. The discussion last week in my Read the full article…
