Reporters are forever making a distinction between "economic" issues and "social" issues in an attempt to drive a wedge between the several branches of the coalition that elected Ronald Reagan in '80 and '84. They write as though his attention to … [Read more...] about The Family and Economic Policies

If two more state legislatures pass resolutions asking Congress to call a Constitutional Convention (Con Con) to consider a Balanced Budget Amendment, Congress will be obliged to issue the call. Could the Con Con then be limited to consideration of a … [Read more...] about Would a Con Con Become a Runaway Convention?

The question now most frequently asked by local Democrats is, "When there are so many fine people in the Democratic Party, how could we allow ourselves to be stuck with Mondale-Ferraro at the top?" The political reality is that the national … [Read more...] about What Happened to the Democratic Party?

All about us, we hear that children are depressed, afraid of the future, having nightmares, worrying about adult problems, and in fear that they won't grow up. Teenage suicide is at epidemic proportions. Why are little children overwhelmed by such … [Read more...] about How Schools Fill Children With Fear and Guilt

One of the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence officials ever to defect to the West, Ion Mihai Pacepa, recently revealed some of his first-hand knowledge about the strange world of technological espionage. Before coming to the United States, he … [Read more...] about How Rumania Steals U.S Technology

We have heard a great deal of comment in the last couple of years about a phenomenon called "the feminization of poverty," which means that more of the poor are women than men. This fact has been used to assert that the cause is "sex discrimination," … [Read more...] about The Feminization of Poverty

A committee of prominent Catholics has published a learned and eloquent "Letter" on the American economic system of private enterprise capitalism. In so doing, this committee has upstaged the U.S. Catholic Bishops who are now in the process of … [Read more...] about Catholic Thought About Capitalism

I thought of George Gilder this week when I was doing some research on a new U.S. constitution written a few years ago by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation. Article IV, Section 5, would provide … [Read more...] about The Spirit of Enterprise

Although the United States celebrated its 208th birthday last July 4th, and will celebrate the Bicentennial of the Constitution in 1989, this year's observance of Thanksgiving Day will be our 361st. It offers a good opportunity for each of us to … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving Thanks