120 MILLION HOMES IN THE U.S. BY 2027
Our country needs to rediscover the message of the Gospel and we need to cry out in prayer for revival to sweep the land. United in love, and with God on our side, we can win America back to Christ.
120 MILLION HOMES IN THE U.S. BY 2027
Our country needs to rediscover the message of the Gospel and we need to cry out in prayer for revival to sweep the land. United in love, and with God on our side, we can win America back to Christ.
The statute over Redevelopment Commissions and the use of Tax Increment Financing is found in IC 36 -7-14.
Nashville, Indiana – TIF-Economic-Development-Plans
Feb 23, 2021, BCD. Redevelopment commission taking TIF plans to board this week By Abigail Youmans
The Use of Tax Increment Finance by Indiana Local Governments, Larry DeBoer
Department of Agricultural Economics Purdue University
The Indiana GPS Project? Team of policy experts from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute have performed a substantial amount of research regarding Indiana’s economy and workforce, particularly through a regional lens.
Does Your Vote Matter, Really Matter?
“The Constitution, written by men with some experience of actual government, assumes that the chief executive will work to be king, the Parliament will scheme to sell off the silverware, and the judiciary will consider itself Olympian and do everything it can to much improve (destroy) the work of the other two branches. — David Mamet, “Why I am no Longer a Brain-dead Liberal”
YOU REALIZE NOW that it can be considered seditious, if not an outright admission of domestic terrorism leading to insurrection, to ask whether the 2020 presidential election was “stolen.” Are you allowed, though, to ask whether future elections might be stolen?
Good question, for without a thorough forensic examination of this last election we can have no idea how vulnerable we are in future elections. And please know that Indiana is not exempt in this regard, more about which in a moment.
During a stint as a U.S. Senate staffer, I attended several meetings with experts on election fraud. The setting was the contentious election for the legislative assembly of El Salvador. The Senate Foreign Relationship Committee had reason to believe that agents of the Soviet Union would try to fix the vote.
The experts listed a dizzying number of ways that elections are stolen in democracies throughout the world. They recommended that El Salvador install the most extreme methods to ensure integrity — photo identification, physical registration with signatures, thumb prints, secret inks, etc. (They would have laughed at the thought of mailing blank ballots to unknown addresses.)
Why didn’t we take such measures in U.S. elections? The answer was that the democratic process here in 1982 was uncommonly honest, Chicago and the Rio Grande Valley exempted.
Well, so much for that.
Even ignoring the 2020 debacle, American election fraud has become more common — commonplace even. The columnist Ann Coulter and others document numerous verified high profile cases beginning with the election of Lyndon Johnson to the U.S. Senate in 1947. Most recently, they include the 2000 Missouri senatorial election, the 2004 Washington gubernatorial election and the 2008 Minnesota senatorial election (100 convictions there for voter fraud).
According to the Electoral Integrity Project, the U.S. now is tied with Mexico for voter integrity, if that tells you anything. Among the factors that counted us down were no voter ID, mail-in ballots, duplicate registration, election observers being prevented from observing, unreliable voting machines, the media calling results while some areas are still voting and voter fraud not being prosecuted reliably.
In Indiana, regarding voting machines, we have no idea what we are dealing with. In research for the foundation, Margaret Menge was unable to get the Governor or the Secretary of State to verify the nature of official oversight of machines here.
Menge phoned Jay Bagga, a computer science professor at Ball State University who, along with criminal science professor Bryan Byers, runs VSTOP (Voting Systems Technical Oversight Program). That is the firm responsible for testing and recommending which voting machines the Indiana Election Commission should certify and approve. Bagga did not return the call.
In addition, the Secretary of State’s 2020 manual on elections administration produced for county clerks says: “The Secretary of State may designate counties as risk-limiting audit pilot counties.” Menge, however, could not get confirmation from the Secretary of State as to whether that is being done.
It is obviously important that citizens believe their votes are being counted accurately. That, however, is rarely the case in many supposed democracies. The result is low voter turnout, a historic marker of a banana republic.
People don’t bother to vote when they distrust the process. Democracy is a civic religion in such places, something that requires irrational faith. (Totalitarian “democracies” perversely require 100 percent voter participation in the attempt to prove they are not totalitarian.)
In that El Salvador election mentioned earlier voter turnout, if memory serves, was double the previous percentage. The difference was that the U.S. stepped in to ensure there would be an honest-to-goodness election.
The average turnout for presidential elections in the U.S. since 2000 has been about 60 percent. But with all the talk of voting irregularities, you might want to watch that percentage in coming years to determine which direction we are going — functional democracy or civic religion.
There are those in America today, call them cynics, who think that all of the talk in Washington about protecting democracy has more to do with legitimizing the rule of an elite class made up of both Republican and Democratic power players. Elections, they say, are no longer representative; they are more like 19th century tent revivals, complete with prearranged ”cures.”
The case of the cynics grew stronger this last year. It won’t be proved wrong until we are allowed to look at evidence presented at court and supported by testimony under oath. — tcl
The Citizenship Question
by Leo Morris
Is U.S. citizenship still worth something?
That is such a grimly disheartening question because of where it came from.
I did not hear it from the usual “America is awful” crowd, the people who either think the republic always was and always will be an oppressive blight on the face of the Earth or believe the only way it can atone for its sins is for those who have been unfairly treated to unfairly treat everybody else.
It came to me from an enthusiastic follower of the Indiana Policy Review, for which I write these columns.
That is an organization dedicated to freedom and the constitutional principles that undergird it. If those who follow that vision are losing faith in the value of their franchise, is there any future left for the country?
There had better be. This country is still the best hope for the world, and to give up on its promise is to give up on all humankind.
America was founded on the single greatest political idea in history: Rights inhere in the individual.
Somewhere between anarchy and tyranny, people have forever tried to find the perfect government, the one that will provide the proper balance of autonomy and dependence. How can we best obtain security and still preserve our liberty?
Until America, the group was always paramount. There were no rights as such, merely privileges that could be granted or withheld to favored or shunned groups at the whim of an absolute ruler.
Then came our Declaration of Independence and Constitution to lay the foundation for a better way. Each individual person has rights – call them natural or God-given – just by virtue of being human that are beyond the purview of government. In fact, the chief justification for government is to protect those rights.
That is the basis of American Exceptionalism, a point President Obama missed – deliberately, I suspect – when he blithely said something to the effect that, well, all people think their country is exceptional.
America is exceptional because it found the exception to submission to tyranny.
And, yes, its behavior is often not exceptional. It does not always live up to its promise. You can find plenty of complaints from all across the political spectrum. The oligarchy is taking over. Cancel culture is rampant. There is anarchy in the streets. Equality of results has replaced equality of opportunity. Income inequality is out of control. And on and on.
I have my own concerns, especially about the leviathan state. I worry that the federal debt will crush us. It bothers me that the Supreme Court declared my property available for an economic developer with deep pockets, and that the state of Indiana declares the right to take people’s possessions by accusing them of crimes they have not even been tried for. It is astonishing that two presidents – Obama and George W. Bush – gave themselves the authority to have any American anywhere killed on their order alone and that there was no national outrage.
But consider: Those are holes in the only ship of state we have. If we abandon it, to which shore do we swim?
I am proud of some of the things I have done, ashamed of others. I try to take responsibility for my own actions, as all moral people should.
I try to avoid grand pronouncements about things outside my control. I cringe when people say they are ashamed to be an American, and I would never say I am proud to be an American. That is but an accident of birth.
But I am glad to be one. It is gratifying to be a citizen of a country that not only stands for the right thing but acknowledges its failures to live up to its own standards and always tries to do better.
If this nation, founded on the concept of natural rights, gets so many things wrong about freedom, imagine what the world would be like without America’s striving as an example. The more mistakes we make, the more we demonstrate how much we are needed.
“For if they do these things in a green tree,” it says in Luke 23:31, “what shall be done in the dry?”
I will leave it to the biblical scholars to offer the religious interpretation of that passage. But we can divine a secular meaning.
The world with America is a green tree, still capable of giving and nurturing life. The world without America would be so very, very dry.
Leo Morris, columnist for The Indiana Policy Review, is winner of the Hoosier Press Association’s award for Best Editorial Writer. Morris, as opinion editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, was named a finalist in editorial writing by the Pulitzer Prize committee. Contact him at leoedits@yahoo.com.
A strategy that leverages the interrelationship between Christianity, Citizenship, and Quality Management.
Presentation (14 slides): 2021_02_ 06 C2QM Apologetic
Terms: Non-secular – based on a biblical worldview: Secular – non-religious based.
Common Ground?
W. Edwards Deming was a world leader in quality improvement, supported a secular approach, and was a devout Christian. Book: Deming: “The Way We Knew Him by :
Why has the west been so successful? Ben Shapiro, PragerU. (Video Length 5:43)
Brown County (IN) Leader Network – Application of the strategy at the county level of government – We are in the proof of concept phase.
Feb 24, 2021. Laurence Tribe: Justice Thomas is out of order on 2020 election, The Hill
Feb 24, 2021. Where Do We Go to Get the Integrity of Our Vote Back? Benjamin Weingarten
Trump Alum, Social Conservatives Launch Effort to Kill HR 1 By Philip Wegmann – RCP By Philip Wegmann – RCP Staff, February 23, 2021
Justice Clarence Thomas Dissents From Supreme Court on Election Case: ‘We Need to Make It Clear’ BY February 22, 2021 Updated: February 22, 2021 Epoch Times
How DJT Lost The White House, Chapter 3: Crashing The White House (December 18-22)
How DJT Lost The White House, Chapter 4: The Christmas Doldrums (December 23- Noon January 6)
How DJT Lost The White House, Chapter 6: The Aftermath
Video (3:09) Grant Stinchfield reacts to TIME exposé – The coordinate effort to rig the Game
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the Breakdown on the 80 Cases Related to the 2020 Presidential Election By Joe Hoft Published February 4, 2021 at 10:02pm Gateway Pundit
Part 2. Saving America and Election Integrity: Rob Natelson January 13, 2021
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. JOHN SIMPSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BROWN COUNTY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 16-2234 Decided: June 26, 2017
“This appeal presents a classic test of procedural due process. As the case comes to us, we must assume that a county board revoked a man’s professional license without giving him prior notice or an opportunity to be heard.”
Stipulation Dismissal and unsigned order
DE 108 Order of dismissal – signed – dated 8/2/18.
CVC Budget 2021 – Requested from Auditor
GuideStar – Nashville Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc (CVB)
IRS Forms 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax – Open to Public Inspection.
The IRS requires all U.S. tax-exempt nonprofits to make public their three most recent Form 990 or 990-PF annual returns (commonly called “990s”) and all related supporting documents. They must also make public their Form 1023, which organizations file when they apply for tax-exempt status.
IRS Tax Exempt Organization – Search
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