BRIAN HOWEY: Use common sense with guns

For the life of me, I don’t see how expanded background checks for gun purchases is an assault on the 2nd Amendment. Yet that is the phrase we hear over and over from the Indiana congressional delegation.

BRIAN HOWEY: Clowning around with Chocola, Mourdock

Chris Chocola is not a clown.

BRIAN HOWEY: Positives, negatives of campaign 2012

On Election Day, as I headed to my office to watch the returns, I stopped to pick up some Chinese carryout.

BRIAN HOWEY: The attempted sale of Indiana’s Senate seat

In a U.S. Senate race engulfed by obfuscated national special interest money, Democrat Joe Donnelly charged that the seat is being “sold.”

Chris Chocola

Chris Chocola, a former 2nd District congressman, is president of the Club for Growth.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Joe Donnelly hopes you're stupid

Joe Donnelly hopes you're stupid.

BRIAN HOWEY: Independent voters will decide Donnelly/Mourdock race

The increasingly competitive Indiana U.S. Senate race will see more national money pouring in. The Majority PAC, a Democratic super 527 group, made a $500,000 TV ad buy on behalf of Democratic nominee Joe Donnelly last week.

Lugar, Mourdock race could redefine meaning of Indiana Republican

INDIANAPOLIS | U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar has been the smiling face of Hoosier Republicans for nearly four decades. But state Treasurer Richard Mourdock believes it's time Indiana is represented by a more aggressively conservative senator.

BRIAN HOWEY: Dumbing down the complexities of energy

One of the most complex issues Americans face is energy — the cost of it and the national security threats it poses. With $4 a gallon gas, we feel the pinch of this issue every week.

BRIAN HOWEY: Why Indiana Dems are in bed with Mourdock

In the television age of Indiana politics, no incumbent U.S. senator has ever faced a credible challenge in a primary. Thus, Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock's challenge to U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar in the May 8 GOP primary is breaking new ground.

BRIAN HOWEY: Pro-earmark doesn't mean pro-deficit

A cornerstone to Richard Mourdock's Republican primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar has been his vociferous opposition to congressional earmarks.

BRIAN HOWEY: A first step toward an uncertain future

The Tea Party set the agenda.

BRIAN HOWEY: Lugar bucks Mourdock's June swoon

As U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar and Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock were making their 11th hour appeals prior to the June 30 Federal Election Commission report deadline, six people were arrested in Moldova trying to sell more than 1 kg of uranium-235 for $20 million. "Police have learned that the…

BRIAN HOWEY: A narrative on the Daniels, Pence dance

Things are beginning to sort out at the executive level of Indiana Republican politics. I predict that Mike Pence is coming home to run for governor. Becky Skillman is going home to Bedford after her term ends in 2012. Mitch Daniels might run for president.