The Carter Budget
The Carter budget provides abundant proof of the Milton Friedman thesis that what hurts the average American most is not so much federal deficit spending as the higher…
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Innovative Ideas for State Legislatures
A 1980 Source Book of suggested state legislation, including drafts of statutes, has just been published by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a non-partisan forum for the exchange…
Why Women Should Not Serve in Military Combat — March 1980
Fiscal Responsibility Amendment
A vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected early in March on a proposed constitutional amendment to reform the budget, tax and spending procedures of the federal…
War and Politics
“U.S. Would Go To War For Pakistan” proclaimed three-column headlines after Zbigniew Brzezinski finalized his discussions with Pakistani leaders earlier this month. If the Soviets advance toward the…
Draft Registration
The most controversial issue in the media and in White House incoming messages today is whether women, as well as men, should be registered for the draft. President…
A Geography Lesson
Americans are about as deficient in world geography as we are in foreign languages. Only a handful of Americans study any geography after the seventh grade. Only a…
Domestic Violence Act
The Domestic Violence and Prevention Services Act (H.R. 2977) passed the House with very little opposition in December, but is producing accelerating controversy in the Senate where the…
Answers to the Gloom-and-Doomers
Among the stacks of letters I receive from readers came one recently which started off like this: “If you want to read the most intelligent comment on our…
Our Blind Eye: The Intelligence Gap
“Know your enemy” is a maxim fundamental to all military, political and athletic contests, both for offensive and defensive operations. To go out on the field of battle…