May 25, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJThe president’s had a bad fortnight. Worse lies ahead.
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May 18, 2013
Sheila Suess KennedyLike it or not, the United States is a country where, increasingly, people read different books and newspapers, visit different
blogs, watch different television programs, attend different churches and even speak different languages.
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May 11, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJEarly 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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May 4, 2013
It’s no secret that higher education is in a state of turmoil—one might even use the word “crisis.”
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April 27, 2013
This weekend finds me in D.C. cheering my Reagan White House boss, Fred Fielding, on receiving the National Republican Lawyers
Association’s Ed Meese Award for upholding the rule of law in the face of political adversity. No one could be more
deserving.
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April 20, 2013
Sheila Suess KennedyWhen the Legislature is in session, Hoosiers have learned to worry.
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April 13, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJIndiana’s new senator, Joe Donnelly, made news April 5 announcing he had changed his mind and now supported gay marriage.
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April 6, 2013
Sheila Suess KennedyLast month, the media and much of the American public fixated on oral arguments in two same-sex marriage cases being heard
by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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March 30, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJMike 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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March 16, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJIn 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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March 9, 2013
Sheila Suess KennedyIf there is one observation increasingly endorsed by conservatives and liberals alike, it is this: American government isn’t
working. Not in Washington, and not in a growing number of states.
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March 2, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJIf 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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February 23, 2013
Sheila Suess KennedyJohn Kasich (Ohio), Rick Snyder (Michigan), Jan Brewer (Arizona), Brian Sandoval (Nevada), Susana Martinez (New Mexico) and
Jack Dalrymple (North Dakota) are all conservative Republican governors opposed to the Affordable Care Act.
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February 16, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJ
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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February 9, 2013
Sheila Suess Kennedy
New year, new governor, same song. One of the first official pronouncements from newly inaugurated Gov. Pence was a solemnly
delivered promise to stop regulating—to cease issuing administrative rules except when "absolutely necessary."
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February 2, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJWashington 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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January 19, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJLike 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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January 12, 2013
Sheila Suess KennedyThe ugly mud-wrestling match that was the fiscal cliff negotiation is over for the time being. Congress has done what Congress
has been doing with some regularity the past few years—it has kicked the can down the road a few months.
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January 5, 2013
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJFolks 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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December 22, 2012
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJBen 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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December 15, 2012
Sheila Suess KennedyEquality is one of those principles that almost everyone subscribes to—a concept we can all endorse in the abstract,
because in the abstract, we don’t have to decide what it really means.
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December 8, 2012
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJIndiana’s just-elected governor and the nation’s just re-elected president take markedly different approaches
to current economic issues.
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December 1, 2012
Sheila Suess KennedyThere’s an old saying to the effect that a politician’s idea of “long term” is the next election.
Our system rewards folks who can front-load the goodies and postpone the pain, even when doing so is clearly not in the long-term
public interest. Budget deficits are an obvious case in point.
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November 24, 2012
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJRepublicans can ignore the standard Democratic line that voters now reject conservatives and Republicans must “change,”
meaning “become Democrats.”
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November 10, 2012
Peter J. Rusthoven / Special to IBJMike 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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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.