Siddiqui: Obamacare not all good or bad, so let’s fix it
Perhaps parents who are under 65 but lack insurance should be allowed to be added to their children’s insurance.
Shariq Siddiqui / Special to IBJ
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Siddiqui: Consumer protection—in all its iterations
This man didn’t understand the difference between actions that cost people their lives and a Facebook post that simply articulates unprofessional business practice.
Siddiqui: Eliminate public funding of political primaries
We should require each political party to develop, fund and implement its own mechanisms to select electoral candidates.
SIDDIQUI: Middle East policy: new hope or wishful thinking?
Although the president is having popularity problems in the United States, he has a very deep level of support among the people I met in Saudi Arabia.
SIDDIQUI: Holcomb will be ‘beacon of hope’ for diversity
Gov. Eric Holcomb hosted Muslim Hoosiers at the Muslim Alliance of Indiana-organized Muslim Day at the Statehouse a few weeks ago.
SIDDIQUI: How to do privatization the right way
The use of funds generated through privatization of public resources seems like a quick fix to a short-term budget gap.
SIDDIQUI: How Bill Clinton pushed Republicans to the far right
Many have seen Bill Clinton’s triangulation as simply a pragmatic way of making public policy in the center. Through the lens of history, I disagree.
SIDDIQUI: Was Trump rhetoric continuation of Obama’s message?
Donald Trump’s coalition was not the same as Barack Obama’s, his language was not inspiring, but he promised the same outcome: The American people are the change and must rise up as a social movement to defeat the party elite.
SIDDIQUI: GOP should decry Trump’s attacks on soldier’s family
I hope my son is inspired by great American heroes rather than drowning in appropriate contempt for the GOP politicians who value electoral partisan victory over the core values of their party.
SIDDIQUI: A look at our super-charged immigration debate
Our current immigration laws would permanently prohibit Superman from receiving legal immigration status. This would remain true even if he married Lois Lane, a U.S. citizen.
SIDDIQUI: When ideology trumps ideas, Hoosiers don’t win
The roads plan Gov. Mike Pence rejected wasn’t a left-wing idea from the fringe of the Democratic Party but from his own conservative Republican super-majority in the Indiana House.
SIDDIQUI: Times may have changed, but our values shouldn’t
Voting against Trump is a moral imperative.
SIDDIQUI: Honestly, we don’t have answers for extremism
America is weaker because our leaders are busier fighting elections than keeping us safe. The biggest example of this failure is failing to have an honest conversation about our Middle East policy.
SIDDIQUI: Apathetic Republicans should slap down bigotry
Days after 9/11, President Bush went to an Islamic center and cautioned our nation against ascribing to the faith the actions by a few individual bad actors.
SIDDIQUI: Democrats in Washington should approve HIP 2.0
The Healthy Indiana Plan is a good move for Indiana and our country. It allows us to provide access to health care to the uninsured poor in a way that instills responsibility, limits abuse and furthers innovation.
SIDDIQUI: Indianapolis needs faster Internet, and quickly
My congregation recently purchased a former day care in the middle of a business district to house our congregation and private school. Before purchasing this facility, we did our due diligence. We checked with zoning, had an appraisal and inspection, brought in the plumber and electrician. Satisfied with all the reports, we went ahead and purchased the building.
SIDDIQUI: When religious and civic values collide
The recent decision by the Plainfield-based Islamic Society of North America to support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act has created concern among some Muslim Hoosiers.
SIDDIQUI: Americans are trustworthy on insurance
The failed rollout of the Obamacare health care exchanges is seen by many as a political gift to the Republican Party. There is no question that President Obama’s administration failed to execute a controversial law that has been heavily criticized, litigated in courts and elections, and created great unrest among the American people.
SIDDIQUI: Conflict, ideology devalue education
Recent ISTEP test scores seem to indicate a correlation between academic success and economic prosperity. These test results show that school districts in affluent neighborhoods have better scores than schools in poorer neighborhoods.
SIDDIQUI: Tone down the education reform rhetoric
Indianapolis is home to three amazing institutions that try to improve public school education—The Mind Trust, Teach for America and IUPUI School of Education—but reform rhetoric is hurting their efforts.