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Commentary: Partisanship leads to less government accountability
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Sometimes people ask me what I’ve got against partisanship. What I dislike about unremitting partisanship is that it first makes people blind. Then it makes them stupid. And, finally, it gives them immature views of the way government and humanity work. Consider this latest flap over the Obama administration’s [...]
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Commentary: Presidents – current and former – all deserve our thanks, respect
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – They shared the same stage, the only five men alive who know what it is like to be the most powerful human being on earth. And the most scrutinized. When America’s five living presidents – Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – [...]
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Sen. Donnelly announces he now supports same-sex marriage
By Lesley Weidenbener TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly announced on Friday that he now supports “marriage equality for all,” switching a position against same-sex unions that he had reiterated last year when he ran for office. Donnelly becomes one of the last Senate Democrats to announce his support for same-sex marriage. Donnelly said [...]
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Commentary: President, GOP leaders seem too mired in the past
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – At the beginning of his fifth State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama summoned the specter of John F. Kennedy. In JFK’s 1962 State of the Union speech, Obama recalled, the late president reminded members of Congress “that the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners [...]
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Commentary: Obama takes different approach in second inauguration, term
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – The Barack Obama who Monday took the oath of office and delivered his second inaugural address seemed both more defiant and more resigned than the man who first became president four years ago. The Obama of four years ago delivered a speech that aimed to be an address for [...]
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Commentary: NRA reacts ‘hysterically’ to reasonable proposals
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Last year, when the National Rifle Association made one of its election-year purchases of an Indiana political candidate, I got into a spat with the gun group. I wrote a column criticizing the transactional nature of the NRA’s relationship with the candidate. The NRA responded by getting personal. One [...]
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Schneider: Indiana should ditch Common Core
By Ellie Price TheStatehouseFile.com Radio report A Republican from Indianapolis is pushing a bill he says will give local controls back to schools. Natavia Howell of TheStatehouseFile.com reports: INDIANAPOLIS – A Republican state senator wants to pull Indiana schools off the national education standards that he said are a “step backward for Indiana.” In [...]
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Lugar calls for Congress and Obama to work together
By Samm Quinn TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar used his valedictory speech Wednesday to encourage the incoming Congress to work better together. “In my experience, it is difficult to conceive of a better platform from which to devote oneself to public service and the search for solutions to national and international problems,” he [...]
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Commentary: Susan Rice invited contempt she’s now experiencing
By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – When Susan Rice came to Indiana a few years ago, she had not yet become the club that Republicans in the U.S. Senate now use to beat President Barack Obama with over perceived foreign policy failings. She wasn’t in the running then to be the next U.S. secretary of [...]
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Commentary: Rapid response in the fog of campaign war
By Cam Savage TheStatehouseFile.com The Obama administration’s handling of a terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens and three other Americans shared center stage in Washington this week with a scandal at the Internal Revenue Service and the [...]