BARLOW: NCAA should practice what it preaches
I have great respect for people who enter the public square and push for social change. I would caution, however, anyone against doing so without first taking a good look at themselves.
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MILLER: ‘Bathroom bills’ are bad for everyone
Most people do not seem to experience gender dysphoria. Yet, there are thousands of people who say this is their experience. We should respect that.
WOLLEY: Let’s all be an Indy partisan—maybe even a zealot
When CEOs for Cities does its annual statistical rankings of municipalities, we don’t come in number one on much of anything. Yet, when you put all the variables together, the synergies make us “punch above our weight class.”
SMITH: Target must change its transgender bathroom policy to protect customers
The company must quit bowing to the political correctness of the radical left.
ROBERTSON: Retailer is now ally in LGBT rights fight
There has never been a single case of a transgender person going into the gendered bathroom he or she identifies with to assault someone.
The (un)Democratic Party’s nominating process
There are two prominent features of the Democratic Party’s presidential selection process that are thoroughly undemocratic and undermine faith in the party: superdelegates (which favor Hillary Clinton) and caucuses (which favor Bernie Sanders). As The New York Times editorial board explained: “Superdelegates are party bigwigs—712 Democratic leaders, legislators, governors and the like. They can vote […]
Democrats’ Supreme Court hypocrisy tiresome
If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy. Currently, Democrats are expressing much indignation because the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Democrats complain, and the media […]
Voters start to recognize Obama’s successes
Like many political junkies, I’ve been spending too much time looking at polls and trying to understand their implications. Can Donald Trump really win his party’s nomination? (Yes.) Can Bernie Sanders? (No.) But that’s not the only things being polled; we’re still getting updates on President Obama’s overall approval. And something striking has happened on […]
Trump does himself no favors with women
You could hear how hard it was for Donald Trump to say the words. “Yeah, it was a mistake,” he said, sounding a bit chastened. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.” I was telling him he lost my sister’s vote when he retweeted a seriously unflattering photo of the […]
MASSON: The U.S. doesn’t need a constitutional convention
While things worked out very well in 1787, there is no particular reason to believe the delegates we would send to a modern convention would have the wisdom of the framers.
DANIELS: Celebrate success but let’s do more for abused women
Since 1996, Coburn Place has provided more than 1,700 people with safe housing for up to two years, along with the critical services they need to become self-sufficient. But there’s a waiting list and more help is needed.
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.
DIETER: Another abortion column because lawmakers don’t get it
Try being a woman who has a constitutional right to abort a pregnancy and yet is thwarted in every imaginable and ever expanding way by intrusive elected officials who think they know better and should impose their will on her.
SPALDING: Pence should follow example of Georgia governor
When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal was presented with House Bill 757, which has been coined a “religious liberty” bill, he refused to follow what his party expected and wanted him to do. He vetoed it.
WAGNER: Superdelegates help stop a Trump in Democratic Party
Superdelegates provide stability and a voice of reason—or at least a voice to raise questions about electability and what’s best for the future of the party.
ROOB: Third Bush never had shot among frustrated GOP voters
Both George H.W. and George W. left office unpopular and in bad economic times. The mainstream media had done its work well, pinning the economic and geopolitical situations at the time of their departures to the lapels of Jeb’s brother and his father before him.
BARLOW: The political Twilight Zone that is the 2016 election
One Democratic candidate for president would have been laughed out of the race by past generations and the other is under investigation by the very government she’s trying to lead.
MILLER: Gov. Pence is hypocritical on the environment
In the same breath, the governor passed a bill with harmful restrictions on environmental regulations and vetoed another bill preventing them. His stance is, at best, confusing.
BOEHM: Indiana should tackle quality-of-life issues
The IU Public Policy Institute recently placed a top priority on leadership development and quality of life in communities of all sizes. These can be advanced by private initiative with or without government support.
SHABAZZ: Gentrification–Here comes the neighborhood
Gentrification is controversial, but guess what? It works.