Kennedy Commentary: Early voting matters more this time – a lot more
By Sheila Suess Kennedy September 14, 2026 As the midterm elections near, Trump and the GOP are becoming more and more frantic, and engaging in a wide variety of tactics to suppress votes. A recent example: email and text messages urging recipients to check their registrations at “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Defining ‘wasteful spending’
By Sheila Suess Kennedy August 31, 2026 Indiana’s Secretary of State race gets more interesting–as well as more annoying–every day. For those of you who don’t live in our backward Red state, a short explanation: Indiana has laws that protect the power and status of the tw “...”
Kennedy Commentary: What school vouchers really do
By Sheila Suess Kennedy August 29, 2026 Can you stand one more diatribe about school vouchers? I have posted dozens of blogs addressing the multiple negative consequences of starving the nation’s public schools in order to funnel tax dollars into the pockets of people who mostl “...”
Kennedy Commentary: The toast is burning…
By Sheila Suess Kennedy August 25, 2026 A story my mother used to tell really sums up the state of the American experiment. A young boy failed to talk. His parents took him to specialists, all of whom said he was normal, but still, he never spoke. Then one day, when he was nearly “...”
Kennedy Commentary: A Ban On No-Fault Divorce?
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 9, 2026 When women assert that bans on abortion are part of a wide-ranging war on women, the pious “Christian” activists behind these b “...”
Kennedy Commentary: About that Lincoln Party…
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy August 5, 2026 Here in Indiana, our status as a reliably “Red” state has depended to a significant degree on a lack of electoral competition. “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Where’s “Anti-Sharia” Beckwith Now?
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy July 28,2026 Indiana’s looney-tunes lieutenant governor refuses to moderate his all-out attacks on the Muslim religion (and is scarcely nicer ab “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Our Red State, Courtesy of Gerrymandering
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy July 19, 2026 My very Red home state of Indiana (I was born here and will undoubtedly die here) has been governed by Republicans for eons. Okay, m “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Hijacking Religion
This column was original published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy July 6, 2026 It has taken a while, but genuinely religious folks are coming out to fight the neo-Nazis, racists and assorted nut cases who use the “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Oh, Indiana!
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy June 4, 2026 I guess I can no longer ignore the most recent evidence that my state of Indiana is governed–if “governed” is even the right wo “...”