The news coverage about the Family and Medical Leave bill which passed the House last week was generally very misleading as far as communicating to the general public its real impact. Contrary to most assumptions, it is not a maternity bill at all; … [Read more...] about It’s Not Maternity Leave at All
Self-Esteem and New Age in Public Schools
Self-esteem is the latest fad in the public schools, and educators are starting courses and politicians are creating commissions to manufacture this wonderful quality. A lack of self-esteem is supposed to be the reason why children do poorly on … [Read more...] about Self-Esteem and New Age in Public Schools
Defund the National Endowment for the Arts
Last week’s Senate committee hearing on the annual appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was carried live across America on C-Span. But C-Span’s TB screen did not and could not show the obscene and blasphemous works of alleged … [Read more...] about Defund the National Endowment for the Arts
Is Gorbachev Good for America?
It is rather obvious that the financial and media establishment in the United States has decided that the political survival of Mikhail Gorbachev is more in our national interest than the freedom of Lithuania or the other Captive Nations. After all, … [Read more...] about Is Gorbachev Good for America?
It’s Obscene To Call Such Stuff “Art” — May 1990
Time for Confession About Katyn Forest
It took exactly 50 years for the Soviets to confess the truth about Stalin’s most brutal and cunning crime. On April 13, they apologized for the massacre of 15,000 Polish officers at Katyn Forest. During late 1939 and early 1940, when Stalin … [Read more...] about Time for Confession About Katyn Forest
Education Reporter — April 1990
The Total Difference in the Child Care Bills
When the liberal Democratic leadership plowed ahead with its determination to set up a federal baby-sitting bureaucracy, House conservatives countered with their substitute, called Stenholm-Shaw. The difference between Hawkins-Downey and … [Read more...] about The Total Difference in the Child Care Bills
War of the Roses
I finally saw the movie “War of the Roses” after it left the theaters and hit the video circuit. It was quite a surprise to find an old-fashioned morality play lurking behind an R-rated movie with bad words and embarrassingly explicit sexual … [Read more...] about War of the Roses
The New York Times Pro-Abortion Bias is Showing
Most media observers have recognized for year that the New York Times’ slogan “All the News that’s Fit to Print” should read, “All the News that Fits.” The Times’ reportage on the March 20 Illinois Primary is a case in point. The Times’ … [Read more...] about The New York Times Pro-Abortion Bias is Showing
