Peter J.Rusthoven / Special to IBJ

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RUSTHOVEN: Bowen lived, governed with character

May 11, 2013
Early this month saw the passing of Otis Bowen, among the most admired, respected governors in Indiana history. Tributes following his death have been gratifying and well-deserved.
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RUSTHOVEN: Let lawmakers decide gay marriage

April 13, 2013
Indiana’s new senator, Joe Donnelly, made news April 5 announcing he had changed his mind and now supported gay marriage.
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RUSTHOVEN: Tails ought not wag the dog

March 30, 2013
Mike Pence has been governor almost three months, so The Indianapolis Star’s Matt Tully has decided it’s time to quit stalling and simply declare Pence a failure.
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RUSTHOVEN: Cento personified opportunity

March 16, 2013
In the first block of South Meridian, a few paces north of Maryland, you will find next to the parking garage entrance a modest establishment called Cento Shoes. It’s been there for over four decades, founded when L.S. Ayres was flourishing just across the street and no one dreamed of a Circle Centre mall.
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RUSTHOVEN: The sky really isn’t falling

March 2, 2013
If our president is right—and who doubts a word he utters?—writing this is wasting time, as it is scheduled for publication that day after the “sequester” takes effect and life comes to an end. But on the off chance the world survives, let’s soldier on for the fraction of readers who might not always find this column a waste of time.
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RUSTHOVEN: 'Relevance' is irrelevant

February 16, 2013

Among American liberals, coverage of Pope Benedict’s decision to resign and speculation about his successor take a predictable line. The Washington Post’s editorial is typical. The challenge facing the Roman Catholic Church, we are told, is “how to remain relevant to an increasingly secular world and to its own changing membership.” Benedict was a “conservative,” at times “reactionary,” who believed “only uncompromising adherence to past doctrine could preserve the faith.

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RUSTHOVEN: An adult arrives at Purdue

February 2, 2013
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson recently observed that our “best Democratic politician” would be sworn in again as president of the United States as our “best Republican politician” was becoming president of Purdue University.
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RUSTHOVEN: Double standards on Israel

January 19, 2013
Like many conservatives, I am struck by the liberal media double standard on issues involving Israel. Two recent events bring this to the forefront.
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RUSTHOVEN: Clinging to facts about guns

January 5, 2013
Folks on the left tend to view themselves as intellectually superior to most on the right, especially blue-collar sorts who follow NASCAR and (to quote our president) “cling to their guns and religion” to deal with “their frustrations."
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RUSTHOVEN: Pence must win tax debate

December 22, 2012
Ben Franklin said nothing is certain but death and taxes. One could add a third item: If there is surplus revenue, legislators will spend it.
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RUSTHOVEN: Pence, Obama contrasted

December 8, 2012
Indiana’s just-elected governor and the nation’s just re-elected president take markedly different approaches to current economic issues.
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RUSTHOVEN: Where next for Republicans

November 24, 2012
Republicans can ignore the standard Democratic line that voters now reject conservatives and Republicans must “change,” meaning “become Democrats.”
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RUSTHOVEN: You'll like Governor Pence

November 10, 2012
Mike Pence’s victory in our gubernatorial contest was the highlight for Hoosier Republicans on Tuesday, and among the few bright spots nationally on a largely dismal night for the GOP.
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RUSTHOVEN: Mourdock one-ups even Akin

October 26, 2012
A few weeks back, Missouri GOP Senate nominee Todd Akin, channeling his frustrated inner M.D., said that when women are raped, their bodies react to prevent pregnancy.
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RUSTHOVEN: Conservative caricatures mislead

October 13, 2012
One of the left’s conceits is believing its own caricature of conservatives. Hence, the reflexive liberal reaction is that a conservative who belies the caricature must be lying.
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RUSTHOVEN: The 'Hee Haw' candidate distorts again

September 29, 2012
John Gregg is at it again. In a gubernatorial campaign marked by dishonest attacks on GOP nominee Mike Pence, Gregg’s newest ad shows him under an umbrella with water running off it. Gregg, speaking in Mr. Folksy mode, tells us Pence wants to spend Indiana’s entire “rainy day” fund. Citing his experience as former Vincennes University president, Mr. Folksy warns this is a bad idea, one more way Pence threatens education.
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RUSTHOVEN: Revisionist change and little hope

September 15, 2012
The most revealing Democratic National Convention speeches were by Presidents Obama and Clinton. Let’s start with the incumbent.
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RUSTHOVEN: Is pro-life extreme, or isn’t it?

September 1, 2012
Whatever else Planned Parenthood does, it is the nation’s largest abortion provider.
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RUSTHOVEN: If not Daniels, then Ryan

August 18, 2012
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate is a superb decision, from a governance as well as a political perspective.
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RUSTHOVEN: Daniels laid foundation for Pence

August 4, 2012
GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence is proposing a 10-percent state income tax cut, a growth-spurring step that would benefit more than 90 percent of Hoosier businesses that pay individual income tax, and would give Indiana the lowest combined tax burden in our region.
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RUSTHOVEN: A pocket guide to the health care ruling

July 7, 2012
Ours is a government of limited powers.
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RUSTHOVEN: Gregg's attacks already off the rails

June 9, 2012
Here’s the kicker—the “he” isn’t Mike Pence.
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'America's best senator' turned away

May 26, 2012
Don’t get involved in politics unless you’re prepared at times to have your heart broken.
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RUSTHOVEN: Much riding on Supreme Court decision

April 14, 2012
Indiana is one of 26 states challenging ObamaCare, with Attorney General Greg Zoeller attending the first day of Supreme Court argument.
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RUSTHOVEN: Lugar attacks growing surreal

March 31, 2012
The distorted attacks on Sen. Dick Lugar typify what most Americans now despise about today’s politics.
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