Author Archive for Matt Parrott

Introducing Hoosier Nation to Kokomo

Introducing Hoosier Nation to Kokomo

The best part of this video isn’t me or my speech, but what you don’t see: Over a dozen ordinary Hoosiers giving our ideas an honest hearing. After the speech, the Q&A ran on for about an hour. I had anticipated getting tough questions—and we got a couple. I had also anticipated people expressing their [...]

The Rise of the A3P

The Rise of the A3P

Erick Erickson of RedState, a leading conservative Republican blog, is losing faith in his “red team” wing of the bipartisan machine. In his recent post, The Rise of the Third Party, he takes aim at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell… I have long criticized the calls of many disaffected conservatives for a third party and [...]

Cranks and Credibility

Cranks and Credibility

By Matt Parrott | At 14, while most kids my age were probably out doing something healthy and normal, I was reading Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World“. I have been and always will be a skeptic and an admirer of the scientific process. While Sagan remains a cardinal influence, it’s more than a little ironic [...]