We’ve heard a lot in recent years about the inherent superiority of contracting out for public services. This approach to privatization is driven by a belief that anyone can do better than the government at just about any job you can name.
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Joe Lieberman and Bobby Knight
We have a Jewish Democrat running for Vice-President on what has, at times, appeared to be the “All God, all the time” ticket. Leiberman is a Yale Law School graduate who has taken to telling audiences that “In America, we have freedom of religion, but not freedom from religion”—a statement that is misleading if not downright inaccurate…
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The Marrying Kind
California likes to pass initiatives and "propositions." Matters we folks in Indiana routinely leave to our legislature wind up as ballot measures out in la-la land; the just-concluded March 7 primary…
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Sending a Message
By the time you read this column (if we are lucky), the Indiana Legislature will have finished its work and gone home. Watching the legislative process always makes me wonder whether democracy can really last…
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Magic of Prayer
Well, I see where someone has stolen a plaque of the Ten Commandments from the Morgan County Courthouse. Reporters have expressed surprise, because one of the Commandments, as we all…
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