Brian Howey
Republican Turned Democrat McCormick Seeks To Defy History
By BRIAN A. HOWEY With Democrat Jennifer McCormick’s official entry into the 2024 Indiana gubernatorial race, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has ruled out seeking the Democratic nomination. “As for me, I don’t see the stars aligning for a McDermott candidacy in 2024 at this time,” McDermott texted told me on Wednesday. Allies of former…
Read MoreDominant Indiana GOP Taking Aim At Big Cities
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Indiana Democrats will be facing an existential election this November. Already purged from rural areas and many small to medium-sized cities, holding no Statehouse constitutional offices, only two of 11 federal offices, and with superminority status in the General Assembly, the party has been relegated to the state’s big cities and…
Read MoreAfter Tucker Carlson, It’s Time … For The Rest Of The Story
By BRIAN A. HOWEY That’s how the most popular AM radio host in the nation back in the 1960s and 70s, Paul Harvey, would sign off on his popular mid-day show, before telling us “the rest of the story” later in the afternoon. It was a broadcast staple heard daily in countless Hoosier homes, farms,…
Read MoreThe Biden & Trump Actuarial Dilemma
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Leave it to Al Roker at the annual White House Easter egg hunt to smoke out President Biden on whether he will seek a second term at age 82. The NBC Today Show weatherman phrased the question as to how many more Easter hunts were in the president’s future. The president’s…
Read MoreHoosiers unTrumped
By Brian A. Howey For the first time in American history, a former president has been indicted, this time by a grand jury and District Attorney in Manhattan for allegedly making pre-election hush money payoffs to a pornographic actress and a Playboy bunny. In the coming weeks, Donald J. Trump could be facing a cascading…
Read MoreRemembering Our Last Democratic Governor, Joe Kernan
To the congressional Republican rank and file, Democrats today are often described as “radical leftists” or “socialists” and even “Marxists.” There have been Hoosier Republicans who described Democrats as partisans who “don’t love our country.” I would have loved to have seen the reaction to this type of criticism from the last Indiana Democratic governor,…
Read MoreLosing The Republic My Ancestors Fought To Preserve
I am a descendent of two Hoosiers who fought in the American Civil War. Two of my great-great grandfathers enlisted in Indiana regiments to preserve the United States. When an emerging Republican congressional “leader” – U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia – used “Presidents Day” to call for a “national divorce,” my first instinct…
Read MoreArmed Hoosier Toddlers
The fact that there’s been 67 mass shooting events in the United States this year by this date (Feb. 16) is ample evidence that something is going terribly wrong. Things are haywire in American society. Now, consider this new phenomenon: Armed Hoosier toddlers. In January, a 4-year-old Beech Grove boy was seen in a shocking…
Read MoreLack Of Competitive Politics Now Hitting City Halls
Indiana’s political scene is in distinct decline. Our congressional races are no longer competitive in General Elections, whereas in past decades there would be half a dozen or so of seat changes between Republicans and Democrats. Since the 2011 reapportionment, not a single congressional incumbent has been upset. Our General Assembly has become lop-sided. For…
Read MoreParty Switching Candidates Are Rare In Indiana
When it comes to switching parties, the list is a long one and recently dominated by the Southland, which in the wake of the 1965 Great Society Voting Rights Act prompted an overt migration from the Democratic to the Republican party, as President Lyndon B. Johnson aptly predicted. The list includes some titanic American figures,…
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