Some Social Spending Problems
If the 1984 election meant anything, it meant a consensus — or at least an awakening of the American people — that liberal spending programs not only don’t…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
What Does Drug Education Mean
If you took a public opinion survey on the question, “Do you favor Drug Education in the schools?” probably a high percentage of people would answer yes. Most…
Credibility of the Media
The matter of the credibility of the media has risen from the status of carping conservative complaints to a controversial issue of public importance. CBS’s paranoid reaction to…
Making Mistakes in Politics
Much of modern politics has become a process of taking public opinion polls and then structuring your campaign to appeal to the perceived attitudes of your constituents. Surely…
Ronald Reagan and Summits With the Soviets
It has become a time-hallowed tradition in the Soviet Union that the incumbent dictator will test each new American President In an ordeal of summitry. This practice was…
What Does “Sex Education” Really Mean?
Does “sex education” in the public schools mean having an employee of the local abortion clinic conduct a class for 15-year-olds and peddle its commercial services? That’s the…
Motherhood in the Eighties — May 1985
Media Double Standard on Southeast Asia
The networks have become so paranoid about the possibility of a Jesse Helms takeover of CES that a New York public relations firm has been hired to survey…
Does SALT Prohibit Star Wars?
The opponents of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), his so-called Star Wars program, having lost all their other arguments against it, now claim that it would violate…
How Comparable Worth Would Hurt Women
As more and more people write about the doctrine called “Comparable Worth,” it becomes more and more evident that the proposed solution would be far worse than the…