Fact and Fiction About the Pledge Issue
The Pledge of Allegiance is the surprise issue of the 1988 presidential campaign. But more noteworthy even than the intensity of the extravagant rhetoric is the persistent falsification…
Category: Elections
1967-1987: The Phyllis Schlafly Report Celebrates — August 1987
Plotting to Rewrite the Constitution
An unreported meeting of about 30 persons took place at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on December 5 where some serious-minded movers and shakers plotted to rewrite…
An Intelligent Candidate’s Guide to the Women’s Vote — October 1986
PACs Protect Personal Political Participation — August 1986
PARTY PLATFORM COMPARISONS, 1984 — October 1984
REAGAN’S APPOINTMENTS
The most interesting aspect of Ronald Reagan’s appointments to the Cabinet and to the top 300 federal positions is not whom he appointed, but how he appointed them.…
THE PRO-FAMILY FACTOR IN THE ELECTION
Ever since the November 4 election, the pollsters and the pundits have been trying to explain away their failure to predict or anticipate the landslide victory that washed…
Does Reagan Know Who Elected Him? — December 1980
NEW STYLE SPOILS SYSTEM
It is reassuring to note that the new style “spoils system” – the use of the vast powers of incumbency to assure reelection – could not reelect Jimmy…