BROOKS: Paul Ryan’s enlightened moment of truth
Ryan leaped into the vacuum left by the president’s passivity.
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DOWD: Republican Party gone the way of Mad Men
When Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and Republican presidential aspirant, dared to urge his party to “mute” social issues, he was smacked.
KRUGMAN: It’s too bad the truth is still inconvenient
As Upton Sinclair pointed out long ago, it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
DOUTHAT: Opportunity is ripe for GOP; stage is empty
Alas, somebody else may have to ensure the survival of the republic, since Daniels has spent the month backpedaling from the idea of a presidential run.
RENN: Indy is still the Midwest growth champion
Add it all up, and Indianapolis appears to be demographically strong, with a strong appeal to Hoosier and ethnic newcomers, and an emergent black growth engine as well.
HEIN: In praise of mighty not-for-profit groups
Not-for-profit employees, and the volunteers who join their mission, are the tip of Indiana’s public service arrow.
EARLY: Lugar, Mourdock fight already a bruiser
In any event, Mourdock will have an energized Tea Party in his corner as well as many of the party regulars. Mourdock is a great speaker and a tireless worker. Lugar does not want to debate him.
BOEHM: State employees hang in court balance
If the Supreme Court agrees with the 1984 opinion, the effect would presumably be to bar state employees from serving in the Legislature, a holding of no small consequence.
KETZENBERGER: Drafting Daniels for corporate Indiana
If his first run for governor is any indication, he’d make a heckuva presidential candidate. I hope he doesn’t.
VAUGHN: No excuse for keeping tainted Durham funds
Continuing to use the excuse that the money is already spent amounts to a slap in the face of the Ohio victims of Durham’s illegal scheme, many who lost their life savings.
FEIGENBAUM: Fallout from Democrats’ walkout will affect fall elections
Following five weeks in a chain hotel in Illinois, House Democrats marched back into the Statehouse—literally—on March 28, escorted by union leaders along Capitol Street and up the east steps in an event made for media. So who wins?
Drilling is energy key
The [March 28] energy article by [Bruce] Hetrick proposes a Hollywood piece of fiction as a modern-day parable of undeniable truth.
Health Foundation ‘far above average’
As a grantee of The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, I read [reporter Kathleen McLaughlin’s March 21] article with great interest.
KENNEDY: Death (penalty) and taxes aren’t certainties after all
Everyone, it seems, wants government to cost less—until someone suggests cuts to our particular sacred cows.
MARCUS: The recovery is over … or maybe not
The recession in Indiana and the nation lasted only three quarters. But the Hoosier recovery took six quarters.
EDITORIAL: Democrats need to share ideas to stay relevant
Indiana House Democrats congratulated each other for stopping anti-union legislation as they returned from self-imposed exile in Illinois on March 28, but they had no one but themselves to blame for the hiatus.
MAURER: An opportunity to help the homeless
There is much work to be done. The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention, an umbrella homeless advocacy organization, estimates that 4,500 to 7,500 individuals in Marion County experienced homelessness in 2010.
SKARBECK: Fed’s monetary policies drag down bond returns
Inflation is a sinister sort of tax that confiscates wealth. Bonds will lose value in an inflationary environment as interest rates rise.
BENNER: Butler players succeed at more than winning games
The best part of this Butler University run to another Final Four isn’t that the Bulldogs put themselves in position for a second straight year to win a national championship. It’s that they already have won one. Well, kinda, sorta.
EDITORIAL: Let’s abandon immigration bill
Lawmakers should take notice when broad swaths of society increasingly register opposition to pending legislation, and the immigration reform bill before the General Assembly is one such example.