Franke: Is This the Government We Deserve?
By Mark Franke Is This the Government We Deserve? “You get the government you deserve.” Thomas Jefferson I don’t have a Ph.D. in political science but one is hardly needed to realize something is seriously wrong with the current state of our government. It isn’t that the President commits oral gaffe after gaffe or that Read the full article…
McGowan: The Poster Children for Capitalism
By Richard McGowan, Ph.D. A person once wrote, “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.” Besides strong socialists, who would agree with that statement? Despite his statements about millionaires and billionaires, Bernie Sanders would not likely agree to the abolition of private property. He himself Read the full article…
The Outstater
It’s a Dunder-Mifflin World “There is beauty in ordinary things; isn’t that kind of the point?” — Pam in the last line of “The Office.” OVERCAST, FRIGID JANUARY is a good month for reruns and deep thoughts, or at least as deep as one’s thinking mechanism allows. Here’s one: Maybe the politicians aren’t to blame; maybe Read the full article…
Morris: My Guide to the Legislature
by Leo Morris As another Indiana legislative session begins, there is an interesting dynamic at work. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, proposing his final two-year budget as a lame duck, is laying out an ambitious and in some ways historic spending plan. He endorses hundreds of millions more for such things as education, public health, economic Read the full article…
The Outstater
The Congressional Trapeze THE PROVOST of my daughter’s college quipped there is only one thing that is exactly as it seems, professional wrestling. I would add two others, the trapeze and Congress. Reading the news of the attempt to name a new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, I found myself thinking of the Flying Wallendas, the Read the full article…
Franke: There Still Can Be Hope
By Mark Franke “You can observe a lot just by watching.” Yogi Berra Writing a weekly column isn’t as glamorous as my editor described it when he recruited me to do this. Finding an idea worthy of 800 cogent and coherent words every seven days is not as easy as one would think. It’s like Read the full article…
