Is a Con Con Hidden in Term Limits? — May 1996
Is a Con Con Hidden in Term Limits? One of the most popular, successful, and genuine grassroots movements of the last decade has been the movement for Term…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
The Tide Is Turning Against Federal Education Bills
We’ve heard a lot about Republican plans to return power to the states. Bob Dole, in his stump speech, ostentatiously pulls a copy of the Tenth Amendment from…
MSAs Are The Republicans’ Best Issue
What are Republicans going to do about the top election-year issue, which is jobs, wages and income? Real (inflation-adjusted) weekly wages have dropped almost 5 percent since 1979.…
The Dumbing Down Of America’s Colleges
The 1996 Governors Education Summit at Palisades, New York, spent two days discussing “standards” for what students should learn in public schools. Longtime American Federation of Teachers president…
The Dumbing Down of America’s Colleges — April 1996
The Dumbing Down of America’s Colleges Finally, a prestigious group of college professors has come right out and said that the emperor (i.e., the Imperial University) has no…
Why Do They Call It “Free Trade”?
Why do some people persist in mouthing the mantra “free trade” when foreign countries can and do engage in all sorts of dishonest tactics that interfere with trade,…
Political Slush Funds
The media are persistently presenting us with reports that voters are “angry,” usually with the implication that this condition is the voters’ fault and is some kind of…
The Great Awakening About Jobs
When Bob Dole said in New Hampshire, “I didn’t realize that jobs and trade and what makes America work would become a big issue in the last few…
Look Out For Union Politicking In Congressional Campaigns
The theater of the presidential primaries is tending to obscure the fact that the fight is already on in earnest for control of the next Congress. The victory…
Free Trade, Protectionism, NAFTA, and GATT — March 1996
Free Trade, Protectionism, NAFTA, and GATT Myths and Realities about Free Trade Where does free trade exist? Absolute free trade between countries does not exist. While some pay lip…