It has been quite a month in politics. On one side, the Democratic National Convention was very much a celebration of America. On the other side, the Republican nominee for president, pressed on the obvious support he is getting from Vladimir Putin, once again praised Putin’s leadership, suggested that he is OK with Russian aggression […]
Donald Trump has found aa way to save the Democratic Party. He’s abandoned great patriotic themes that used to fire up the GOP and he’s allowed the Democrats to seize that ground. If you visited the two conventions this year, you would have come away thinking Democrats are the more patriotic of the two parties—and […]
If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong. Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers as grievance mongers have been built on […]
We have a presidential candidate displaying the hallmarks of a grifter rising to power by exploiting anxieties and weariness of change. In more than a few ways, his pitch resembles that of D.C. Stephenson in the ’20s.
The decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton is understandable but will serve as a defense in other cases where a lesser-known individual is accused of mishandling classified material. So it will now be harder for the government to prevent the leaking of classified information.
A majority of the suspects who were shot while armed were white.
Normal office pleasantries like being greeted with smiles or people just going along their day like nothing significant happened took a bizarre “Twilight Zone-esque” twist. I and a lot of my black friends found the silence of colleagues and friends deafening.
The culture wars of the ’60s were fought in legislative chambers. Today, summary justice is handed down by unelected judges.
A star named Barack Obama was born at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. John Kerry would go on to lose that election, but out of that loss would begin a new era for the Democratic Party.
If Democrats have to keep going back to Bayh to give them a shot at winning elections, how will they ever grow a respectable party in this state?
This year’s weirdness might have long-term repercussions.
Despite Evan Bayh’s lifetime of experience on the campaign trail, the landscape both politically and technologically has shifted since his last statewide campaign in 2004. Needless to say, it shows.
Trump now implies that the NATO treaty itself has become unenforceable, but he provided nothing to support that conclusion.
Republicans made the right choice in naming Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb as the party’s nominee to be the next governor of the state of Indiana. Don’t listen to what the Democrats are saying. They are still reeling from the realization that they are left without a message since the whole John Gregg campaign has been, […]
What passes for debate in this election seems to represent a new low in the annals of public dialogue. I suggest Indiana has the capacity to go through the next three months without doing damage to our civic fabric.
Since when has it become OK for the retirement assets of Indiana’s public employees to be artificially manipulated to become risky seed money to benefit private companies?
More Hoosiers are working than ever. Hoosier employers have added nearly 150,000 jobs since 2013, while Indiana’s unemployment rate has plummeted from more than 8 percent to 4.8 percent.
Indiana’s “filet mignon” surplus sizzles, while many agencies exist on generic mac and cheese. How does Mr. Pence sustain a policy of growing a bloated surplus while revenue declines?
Last month the Supreme Court of the United States voted that President Obama exceeded his authority when he granted exemptions from the immigration laws passed by Congress. But the court also exceeded its authority by granting the University of Texas an exemption from the Constitution’s requirement of “equal protection of the laws,” by voting that […]
I doubt that Hillary Clinton really wants to run with Elizabeth Warren—I doubt that she fully trusts her—but if that’s her calculated decision: mazel tov. They sure were fiery together last week, two blue devils raring to bedevil Donald Trump. Tim Kaine is totally sensible, mostly safe and a bit of a snooze: the aspirin […]
