Brian Howey
After 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read MoreLt. Gov. Crouch Governs Via Collaboration
To understand Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch’s governing philosophy, one only needs to look south of the Ford Center to the beautiful Stone Family Center for Health Sciences that houses the…
Read More‘MitchFest’ Ends at Purdue, But Could Spread to Indiana
In mid-May 2003, in what Howey Politics described as “Mitch Mania during Mitch Week,” it was President George W. Bush who coined the political slogan for a Hoosier generation. Daniels…
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