What would you think of a cooking instructor who taught his students how to cook (how to measure ingredients, turn on the stove, run an electric beater, etc.) but neglected to tell his students how to get the right ingredients and what the cooked … [Read more...] about MEMORY IS MISSING FROM EDUCATION

When President Reagan’s new AIDS Commission gets down to serious business, it should study an important package of newly-passed state legislation. Illinois lunged to leadership in the what-to-do-about-AIDS dilemma when Governor James Thompson signed … [Read more...] about Suggestions for the Aids Commission

The power to prescribe a national curriculum for American public school students is the power to control the next generation. The prevailing consensus in America is that nobody should ever exercise such power because that would be incompatible with … [Read more...] about THE PUSH FOR A NATIONAL CURRICULUM

The Salt I Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972, comes up for its third five-year review on October 3. This would be a good time to withdraw from the Treaty according to the procedure set forth in its own terms. For two centuries, our … [Read more...] about Defend America! Terminate the Abm Treaty

"What’s in a name?" Shakespeare asked. A lot, when it comes to politics, it seems. What the liberals have baptized as "the Civil Rights Restoration Bill" should really be named "the Civil Wrongs Bill of 1987." Sponsored by Edward Kennedy (D-MA) in … [Read more...] about THE CIVIL WRONGS BILL OF 1987

"Censorship attempts jumped by 20 percent during the last school year," proclaimed a recent news release by Norman Lear’s People for the American Way. PAW’s annual report, called "Attacks on the Freedom to Learn," listed and described the details of … [Read more...] about THE REAL ISSUE IS POOR JUDGMENT, NOT CENSORSHIP

Condom-mania has been sweeping the country for the last year. One can hardly turn on television, read a newspaper, or participate in a school curriculum discussion without being battered with the demand that people and pupils be encouraged to use … [Read more...] about Condom-Mania Con Job