If you’re a Donald Trump supporter I have good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that I think Hillary Clinton won the first debate. The good news is that you have two more debates to go. I think Clinton showed she could master a lot of facts and more importantly she […]
The greatest thing about America is that we are free to speak our minds. I bring this up because of recent controversies regarding athletes who chose to protest unjustified police action shootings of unarmed black men by either kneeling during the national anthem before sporting events or raising the “black power” fist as symbolized in […]
I just spent the last couple days with Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson. He was in Indiana at Purdue University on Tuesday evening and I moderated a discussion with him at the Detroit Economic Club on Wednesday. After spending that much time with him one on one, I am fully convinced he should be part […]
Indianapolis is on track for a record breaking year when it comes to murders. According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, there have been 97 murders so far this year.* That’s literally a murder every 2.5 days. And if things stay at this rate, Indy is looking at 146 murders. The largest number of murders […]
I am a firm believer that the movie “Blazing Saddles” should be shown at every college freshman orientation across the country. Not so that every student can learn the words to “Camptown Lady” or be able to answer the age old question of “where the white women at”, but learn two of life’s most important […]
Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz wants to give all parents in public school a $1,000 tax credit to help public school parents cover the costs of textbooks and other education related expenses. Election year pandering notwithstanding, I agree with Ritz from this perspective, no parent in a public school who is already paying taxes […]
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is touting a proposed budget his administration says spends less than the last year’s and cuts the structural deficit in half. For months, the administration has been saying the city has a $55 million structural deficit. Hogsett officials say they managed to cut that deficit in half by holding the line […]
As of today, we are less than 100 days out until Election Day. So I figured what better time to sit down and do a little political pontificating and handicap the big political races here in Indiana. Now granted, the caveat in all this is the old adage that a day in politics is a lifetime […]
In an effort to convince members of the Republican State Central Committee to pick him as their party’s nominee to replace Mike Pence on the ballot for Governor, Indiana Congressman Todd Rokita is releasing a poll showing him beating Democrat John Gregg by double digits. The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies of 600 likely […]
For the last eight years it’s been a tradition of mine to work as a bouncer at Nicky Blaine’s on the second Saturday night of Indiana Black Expo’s Summer Celebration. I did it back I 2006 when the owner, as well as other downtown businesses, would tell me stories of teenagers running the streets and […]
