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 "best" candidates would be elected to office. The principal villain … [Read more...] about The Power and Politics of PACs

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, 50 governors, state officials, and other policy officials -- … [Read more...] about ALEC’s Suggested State Legislation

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 to force them to stop foisting off on public school children reading those textbooks which are producing … [Read more...] about Disadvantaged School Children

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 figured out what happened. The typical pragmatic … [Read more...] about Political Diagnosis and Prognosis

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 that the Old Testament records that "women earned 30 shekels for every 50 earned … [Read more...] about Equal Pay for Comparable Worth

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 volumes in the oven. He has concluded that LBJ was ambitious and unprincipled, … [Read more...] about LBJ Revisited

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 recent Buchwald column titled "Liberation and the Self-Maid Woman," like many … [Read more...] about The Cost of Liberation

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 forgiveness. As every parent knows, reality is often the other way. One of Ronald … [Read more...] about Jeane the Dragon Killer

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 holiday. It gives us a chance to recall that our American heritage is religious, not … [Read more...] about Ours is a Religious Nation