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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Ends and Means
My mother used to tell me that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. It was her way of expressing the principle–much honored in the breach, I have since noticed–that the ends do not justify the means.
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The Way We Weren’t
There has been a lot written recently about cases of "suppressed memory syndrome," involving childhood incidents so hurtful or frightening that the person suppresses all memory of them, only to recall them years later. There is bitter debate…
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A New Entitlement
There has rarely been a more misnamed proposal that the so-called "Religious Freedom" amendment to the Constitution being promoted by Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and other House members.
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