Equal Pay for Comparable Worth
“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’…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Victory for Home Schooling
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…
Child Pornography
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…
Tuition Tax Credits
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…
Immigration Reform?
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%…
Why Teachers Can’t Teach
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.…
Equal Pay For Comparable Worth — January 1984
Did Congress Really Mean to Tax Churches?
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…
Regulation of Non-Public Schools
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…
Christmas, Children, and Cabbage Patch Dolls
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…