The Power and Politics of PACs
Since the November election, those unhappy with the verdict of the polls have been busy explaining their losses and recommending “reforms” which presumably would assure that all the…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
ALEC’s Suggested State Legislation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has just published its 1983-84 Source Book of suggested state legislation. It is being delivered this month to all 7,400 state legislators,…
Disadvantaged School Children
A reader has sent me a copy of a letter he has been sending to school boards in which he suggests a class action lawsuit against book publishers…
Political Diagnosis and Prognosis
The politicians, pundits and pollsters who took a beating about their inaccurate forecasts of:last November’s election have spent the last two months explaining and defending. They still haven’t…
Equal Pay for Comparable Worth
In recent testimony at a Congressional hearing, Senator Edward Kennedy turned up as the flag-carrier for a new feminist cause wrapped in the old, tired rhetoric. He said…
LBJ Revisited
Robert Caro has spent seven years researching President Lyndon B. Johnson; the result is one volume of biography, an article in last month’s Atlantic Monthly, and two more…
The Bishops and the Nuclear Freeze — January 1983
The Cost of Liberation
Art Buchwald’s particular brand of humor has made him a social commentator on current cultural and political trends just as Will Rogers’ humor delighted an earlier age. A…
Jeane the Dragon Killer
The stereotypes of men’s and women’s roles teach us that the man is the one expected to enforce discipline, while the womah Is the fountainhead of tenderness and…
Ours is a Religious Nation
Commemoration of the religious feast of Christmas reminds us to be grateful that we live in a nation that officially recognizes the birth of Christ by a national…