Whose Side is Congress On?
The first week of August, the liberal Democrats in the U.S. Senate indulged in some pacifist euphoria and voted to cripple our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) by cutting…
Category: Constitution
The Radical Agenda of the NEA
The National Education Association (NEA), one of the nation’s largest and wealthiest unions, held its annual convention in Kansas City last month and passed dozens of leftwing and…
Summer Senate Silliness
Apparently tired of grappling with real problems (such as S&L, the budget, and the Middle East), Senate Democrats last week took a morning off for silliness and held…
The End of Brennan-Style Liberalism
The resignation of Justice William Brennan marks the termination of the modern liberal era in American politics. Liberalism has been kept alive for the last ten years only…
Who Are the Real Censors? — August 1990
The Spending is More Obscene Than the Art
The picture in the advertisement caught my eye, as of course it was intended to do. The visual of that courageous Chinese student facing down the tanks in…
Double Standards About the First Amendment — July 1990
Playing Politics with the First Amendment
It looks like the start of a long, hot summer of politicians’ posturing about the First Amendment. It’s time we separate what is and what is not a…
Conservatism is Alive and Innovative
Some reporters have been gleefully writing about what they call the coming conservative crack-up because, with the falling apart of Eastern Europe, conservatives have allegedly lost Communism as…
Self-Esteem and New Age in Public Schools
Self-esteem is the latest fad in the public schools, and educators are starting courses and politicians are creating commissions to manufacture this wonderful quality. A lack of self-esteem…