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Donald Trump? Meet P.T. Barnum
By Brian Howey INDIANAPOLIS — Donald Trump? Meet my good friend P.T. Barnum. For much of the 19th century, Phineas Taylor Barnum delighted and confounded patrons on two continents with a circus and a...
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My latest Republican intervention
Howey By Brian Howey NASHVILLE, Indiana — Four years ago, when about 10 percent of Hoosier Republicans voting in the primary thought it was a good idea to depose U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar, I tried an...
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Clinton/Sanders showdown headed our way
Brian Howey by Brian Howey BLOOMINGTON — Eight years ago, Hoosier political junkies watched and participated what many of us thought would be a once-in-a-generation spectacle due to our late May...
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An abortion bill ramrod on the eve of Zika
by Brian Howey Howey INDIANAPOLIS — Several years ago in a conversation I had with Curt Smith of the Indiana Family Institute, the question raised was, “Short of the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe....
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Trump at the nexus of ‘Mad Max’ and ‘Network’
Howey by Brian Howey INDIANAPOLIS — After attending my first Donald Trump “show,” I’ve come to the conclusion that this dystopian political race has devolved into a hybrid of the movies “Mad Max” and...
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With the presidential race, ‘Dis is it’
INDIANAPOLIS — Dis is it. So spoke Jake and Elwood Blues, a declarative Blues Brothers statement of where the action is and burnished at the Slippery Noodle Inn, the Hoosier State’s oldest bar. For the...
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Hoosier impressions of Trump, Clinton and Sanders
by Brian Howey INDIANAPOLIS — When the dust settled on one of the most bizarre political sequences in modern Indiana history, Hoosier Republican voters had settled the Republican presidential race in...
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Good politics, good policy on Regional Cities, abortion?
by Brian Howey Brian Howey INDIANAPOLIS — Good policy makes good politics, right? If you’re Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke or Elkhart Mayor Tim Neese or even South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, finding...
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Indiana’s Party of Lincoln stained
Howey by Brian Howey INDIANAPOLIS — On May 17, 1860, the Republican convention campaign team of native son Abraham Lincoln met with the Indiana and Pennsylvania delegations in Chicago. What emerged...
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Why are We the People so very angry?
by Brian Howey MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — Americans and Hoosiers are angry. They are seeking political retribution. Some are resorting to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie...
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