Will the House of Representatives, where the Democrats have a majority, be able to spend as usual while defeating Ronald Reagan's tax-cut-spending-cut package? Professor Charles Rice of Notre Dame Law School has just circulated a paper which shows … [Read more...] about Reagan’s Veto Opportunity

"You know, Mrs. Schlafly, it has been scientifically demonstrated that babies do just as well in child-care centers as they do being cared for by their own mothers." Such was the positive assertion of a woman student on a college campus I visited … [Read more...] about MOTHER-CARE VERSUS INSTITUTIONAL-CARE

Among the many intricate aspects of the Social Security system which are the subject of current hearings by a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee is a weird proposal to eliminate the benefits paid to dependent wives and widows. These … [Read more...] about ARE DEPENDENT WIVES OBSOLETE?

Will Ronald Reagan become another Margaret Thatcher? Prime Minister Thatcher won a splendid conservative victory two years ago. But after her election, she became timid and failed to cut taxes as she promised. (A small tax cut was offset by another … [Read more...] about TAX CUTS NOW ARE ESSENTIAL

If Dave Stockman is looking for more places to cut the federal budget, one of the best places to start would be the Legal Services Corporation. Most Americans have never even heard of it, but they are paying dearly for it. The Legal Services … [Read more...] about TAX FUNDING OF LEGAL SERVICES

"What's in a name?" Shakespeare asked. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But would it? American businesses spend millions of dollars to research and choose (or invent) a name before marketing a product. Publishers … [Read more...] about THE PRODUCTIVITY STATE

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff David Jones has been hustling up to Capitol Hill telling Senators and Representatives how weak our military defenses are, and how we need immediate programs to remedy our critical deficiencies. "In most … [Read more...] about HOW REAGAN CAN REBUILD U.S. DEFENSES

In many legislatures this spring, a controversy is raging over whether "scientific creationism" should be taught in the public schools as an alternate theory to evolution. The liberals who used to demand "academic freedom" to teach unpopular views … [Read more...] about WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM?

In the final hours of the Carter Administration, the Justice Department filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to reverse a lower federal court's ruling which had invented a new constitutional right no one had ever heard of before, … [Read more...] about THE GOVERNMENT’S BRIEF ON DRAFTING WOMEN