by Leo Morris Profound apologies to my brother. It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote of hating him for basking in 70-something sunshine in Texas while hapless Hoosiers were shoveling through several inches of snow and preparing for sub-zero temperatures. Mere days after my outburst, the Lone Star State was slammed with a massive storm of historic proportions. My brother lost power and had to carry water into the house from…

by Richard Moss, M.D. When one ponders the treachery of Republicans in the aftermath of the recent stolen election, one wonders what purpose they serve? It was dormant Republican-controlled state legislatures in many of the “battleground” states, after all, that allowed the changes in election law, perpetrated by scurrilous Democrats and their lawyers that led to the whole debacle in the first place. Some rose up after the fact, but by then it was too late.  Where…

by Mark Franke One thing we geezers, I mean senior citizens, are not so lovingly known for is constantly whining, I mean commenting, about being on a fixed income. Every time the price of gas goes up at the pump or groceries seem to cost more at checkout, an irritating choir of voices is heard about the unfairness of having to live on a fixed income. Back when inflation was a real concern, there was…

Jason Riley’s Please Stop Helping Us is a good introduction to the ways in which government has harmed the poor in general and African-Americans in particular. He describes his broad concerns, but also devotes chapters to many of the most relevant public policies: welfare, crime, minimum wage, K-12 education and Affirmative Action.  Riley puts a lot of blame on Democrats and the Left — whether they’re motivated out of good intentions, paternalism and condescension or cynical political…

by Leo Morris Is U.S. citizenship still worth something? That is such a grimly disheartening question because of where it came from. I did not hear it from the usual “America is awful” crowd, the people who either think the republic always was and always will be an oppressive blight on the face of the Earth or believe the only way it can atone for its sins is for those who have been unfairly treated…

YOU REALIZE NOW that it can be considered seditious, if not an outright admission of domestic terrorism leading to insurrection, to ask whether the 2020 presidential election was “stolen.” Are you allowed, though, to ask whether future elections might be stolen? Good question, for without a thorough forensic examination of this last election we can have no idea how vulnerable we are in future elections. And please know that Indiana is not exempt in this…

I TELL THE STORY A LOT but events keep making it more applicable, the latest being the Indianapolis crime spike and the mayor’s pathetic response. The San Francisco earthquake of 1989 caused 63 deaths, 3,800 injuries, and an estimated $6 billion in damage. A film crew happened on a policeman picking his way down a rubble-filled street. He was yelling up to apartment windows, “Nobody’s coming to help you.” It was his warning that quake victims shouldn’t wait, that they should…

by Richard McGowan, Ph. Consider the names of these teams: Florida State University Seminoles, Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Cleveland Indians. How are they the same and how are they different?  Florida State University managed to avoid the problem of illicit cultural appropriation by working with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The FSU Communications Office acknowledges the nature of the arrangement on its website: “Since 1947, Florida State University has proudly identified itself with this heroic…

by Mark Franke “A policeman is here and more are coming . . . from the bomb squad. Will you be home soon?” Needless to say, that is the kind of text message one would rather not get from his wife.  Now this is not a disaster story and it actually turns out quite well. I should tell you that before going on with the explanation. My wife’s retirement hobby is reorganizing everything in our…

by Leo Morris May I just say that I hate my friend Sofia today. She’s in Phoenix, where the expected high is 74. I’m not too crazy about my brother Larry, either. He’s in Hill Country, Texas, sunny and 71. Remember the pre-COVID days, when “cabin fever” meant being stuck in the house by weather for a week or two, not trapped in a floating-virus, keep-your-distance nightmare without end? It was called “winter,” and the…