"Equal Pay for Comparable Worth" has become a new slogan echoing through state legislative debates, Congressional hearings, Federal courts, television talk shows, TV and newspaper advertisements, and politicians' position papers. Since the American … [Read more...] about Equal Pay for Comparable Worth

Some people have very strange ideas of what should be punished as a crime. While all sorts of people who commit horrible offenses go unapprehended and unpunished, in some states parents are arrested and even jailed for the alleged crime of either … [Read more...] about Victory for Home Schooling

Although laws against pornography have been singularly ineffective since the late 1960s, our nation may be recouping both its will and its ability to deal with this criminal deviation, at least when it impacts on children. The Child Protection Act of … [Read more...] about Child Pornography

Few issues show the difference between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale so dramatically as education. Mondale wants to tax everybody an additional $11 billion so that the Federal Government can spend more on schools, whereas Reagan wants tax relief … [Read more...] about Tuition Tax Credits

Since Speaker Tip O'Neill buried immigration reform legislation last year (by simply taking it off the House calendar), the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is seeking a 50% increase in the number of Border Patrol officers along the … [Read more...] about Immigration Reform?

This column has repeatedly complained that today's children can't read, write, spell, add, subtract, and do other elementary basic skills as well as children of a generation ago. We've discussed the inadequacies of the schools and the textbooks. All … [Read more...] about Why Teachers Can’t Teach

Sometimes radical changes in the tax law coast through Congress with little or no reaction or opposition from those affected. Then, when the tax collector starts knocking at the door, an explosion erupts. That happened with the law to withhold tax … [Read more...] about Did Congress Really Mean to Tax Churches?

Those who deplore the steady migration of children from public schools into private and religious schools are striking back. They are resorting to a variety of strategies to circumvent what has been established law in the United States since 1925, … [Read more...] about Regulation of Non-Public Schools

Some seek the meaning of Christmas in the Christ Child, some from their own children gathered around the hearth, and millions, apparently, from a Cabbage Patch Doll. As dolls go, the Cabbage Patch Doll is not pretty. It has no silken hair, no … [Read more...] about Christmas, Children, and Cabbage Patch Dolls