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“Islam is peace; it has brought peace to the world.” – George W. Bush, six days after 9/11. Everyone other than the stray Democrat Socialist mourns today for the 2,297 innocents, including 441 first responders, who died in the terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Center 25 years ago. But we also mourn something…

Military historians note a phenomenon when war breaks out. The generals who had achieved high rank during peacetime are nowhere to be found. That relates, I’m sorry to say, to the Indiana GOP’s upcoming battle against socialism. The reason peacetime generals do not matriculate to war is chaos, it cannot be simulated at a war college or…

by Dan Eichenberger M.D. For most of history, the word “equity” meant something simple and good: fairness. It meant treating people justly, looking at the real situation, and not applying rules so rigidly that they caused harm. Today, many on the progressive left use the same word to mean something  different. They claim that true fairness requires equal…

Mercantilism: Is it Local; Is it Logical? For immediate release (632 words with optional cut) In Northern Indiana, a few things remain for which politicians cannot claim credit: amber waves of grain in the summer, Chocolate Charlie at Christmas, paczki for Madi Gras. We can be cheerleaders for local things yet question the role of…

For the use of the membership only (705 words). Potemkin |pəˈtɛm(p)kən| |pəˈtɛmkɪn| — adjective (informal), having a false or deceptive appearance, esp. one presented for the purpose of propaganda. ORIGIN 1930s: from Grigori Aleksandrovich Potyomkin (often transliterated Potemkin), a favorite of Empress Catherine II of Russia, who reputedly gave the order for sham villages to…

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For immediate release (600 words) I was trying to explain constitutional Rule of Law to a reporter during my first political campaign in 1996 when the fellow raised an eyebrow in a gesture of cynicism and said I’d be another “perennial candidate.” Since that was just the first of many times I’d be so labeled,…

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