LET’S REDIRECT OUR OUTRAGE
Reporters and TV commentators keep asking Reagan loyalists if they are not outraged by the revelations of Oliver North and John Poindexter about what went on inside the…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Education Reporter — July 1987
A Fighting Chance to Survive
If a nuclear war ever occurs, I hope I die immediately because “the survivors will envy the dead.” We’ve all heard that sentiment spoken so often that it…
OLLIE, WE LUV YA
What a week on television! The first two days, people were complaining that their favorite soaps had been preempted. Then, America’s TV addicts found to their surprise that…
About Supreme Court Appointments
The most notable thing about Ronald Reagan’s appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court is not that they are conservatives, but that NONE of his four nominees was appointed…
SOVIET CYNICISM ABOUT SUMMITS
The growing belief that there will be a Reagan-Gorbachev summit this year is a good reason to take a critical look at the Soviets, their purposes, and their…
HIGH-TECH DOESN’T TEACH READING
Toss into the pot of education the obvious need to teach schoolchildren the skill of reading, add the mystique of computers and the financial resources of one of…
ENCOMIUMS FOR JUSTICE POWELL
Lavish praise has been heaped on Justice Lewis Powell since his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court. Commentators are referring to the “Powell Court” because he was often…
LET’S INVESTIGATE CARNEGIE-GATE
“The role of private parties to carry out the high purposes of government makes us the subject of puzzlement and ridicule.” That’s what Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), chairman…
THE DEFECTS OF COMPARABLE WORTH
After reading the testimony against Comparable Worth given this spring by the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Constance Horner, it’s hard to see how any…