Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Major League Baseball, if you can afford it

Now that the patriotic observances are past, it’s time to turn to another pillar of Americanism — baseball. Despite...

Post-holiday post office woes

“The whole (postal) journey took 10 days. The Pony Express and its horses could have done it in eight days given its standard...

Sorry, inflation still lives

Our friends on Wall Street and in Washington keep saying that inflation is vanquished as they hope—plead—for lower interest rates. Yet the...

Zero tolerance for the word police

A white teacher in Chicago was fired recently for using the N-word in class.

Turning a corner, away from excessive risk aversion

It feels like we’re turning a corner. Since the beginning of the calendar year,...

‘Forgiving’ student loans: Worst idea ever

My heartfelt congratulations to President Biden. He is proposing an idea so bad that it replaces the...

The decline of a nation

While inflation, high gas and food prices, a falling stock market, corrosive politics and a looming recession...

The lesson of Fort Wayne’s Bowser pump

Two pictures of Indiana. The first picture, from the past. Sylvanus...

Debating Indiana partisan school board elections

In the 2011 session of the General Assembly, the legislature passed (and I supported) HEA 1074 that effectively changed the state’s school...

Have you ever been on the radio?

Everyone should do it at least once in their life. Speak on the radio, I mean.