One of the several reasons why Congress left the Hawkins and Downey daycare bills twisting in the wind at the time of the Christmas recess was a failure to agree on how to handle the ticklish issue of religious daycare. At least a third of … [Read more...] about Promises to “Fix” the Religious Daycare Issue
How to Spend the Peace Dividend
A combination of President Bush’s “read my lips” determination to veto any tax increases plus the shadow of the federal deficit has kept the liberal Democratic Congress from initiating any new spending program. But now, rash talk of a “peace … [Read more...] about How to Spend the Peace Dividend
How To Spend the Peace Dividend — March 1990
Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
California is a trend setter for all sorts of movements that have swept across our nation from no-fault divorce to the tax-cutting Proposition 13. Now the California Republican State Central Committee meeting on March 9-11 will set the stage for … [Read more...] about Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
Education Reporter — February 1990
People Just Don’t Want Government Child Care
There’s a nasty little secret circulating in the cloakrooms of Congress. While liberal Democrats publicly proclaim that a bill will soon pass to plunge the Federal Government headlong into the business of babysitting preschool children, these same … [Read more...] about People Just Don’t Want Government Child Care
Censoring Out Western Culture
The educators have come up with all kinds of excuses to explain why some minorities are falling behind in the essential skills and knowledge which we expect them to acquire during their years in public schools. The public is no longer willing to … [Read more...] about Censoring Out Western Culture
Look Who’s Censoring Books!
John Buchanan, chairman of the lobby group called People for the American Way (PAW) appeared before the Alabama State Textbook Committee recently to urge censoring a 1989 supplementary science book called Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis, Dean … [Read more...] about Look Who’s Censoring Books!
A “New Age” for Privacy-Invading Psychiatry — February 1990
Why University Standards are so Low
You may have suspected that academic standards of American universities have declined, but you won’t know how low until you read ProfScam by Charles J. Sykes (just published in paperback: St. Martin’s, $9.95). This book is a devastating indictment of … [Read more...] about Why University Standards are so Low
