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 “...”
Kennedy Commentary: The Electoral College
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy May 15, 2026 We never get too old to learn. A few days ago, I watched Andy Borowitz interview Heather Cox Richardson; one of the issues discussed “...”
Kennedy Commentary: Ranked Choice Voting
This column was originally published by Sheila Kennedy on her blog, “A Jaundiced Look at the World We Live In.” By Sheila Kennedy February 21, 2026 As I write this, Indiana’s legislature is close to passing Senate Bill 12, a measure that would prohibit the use of ranked-cho “...”