It is fashionable these days for candidates of every party and persuasion to laud smaller government, but smaller is not necessarily less bossy. The issue is less the size and cost of government — important as that is — but how intrusive it shall be
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A Right to Die
We Americans have a habit of asking the wrong questions. Right now, the wrong question is whether the Constitution gives us a "right to die" and if so,, whether we are entitled to have our doctors’ assistance.
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Do Unto Others
On a recent trip to South Carolina, I found passions engaged over a proposal by a member of the State Board of Education to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms.
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Threatening Mom and Apple Pie
Watching the Indiana General Assembly is always an interesting exercise. Some of our elected representatives are addressing issues that will clearly have enormous implications for the future health of the state: education, property tax reform, problems with the juvenile justice system. Others are using their positions to…
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Flouting the Constitution
Recently, the Hendricks County Commissioners voted to hang the Ten Commandments in the Rotunda of the County Government Building.
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