“Working Girl” Exposes a Feminist Myth
To the anguished moans and groans of feminists, the movie script writers have struck again. Even if television news departments, editorial writers, and Congressmen haven’t discovered it, the…
Category: Family
Education Reporter — January 1989
Carnegie’s Plan for Controlling U.S. Education
Americans spend about $300 billion per year on education, a truly impressive sum. If any group could control that spending Goliath, it would have incredible power because it…
A guest editorial in a very liberal newspaper recently asked the question, “What happened to the 40-hour work week?” The writer, a labor-issues reporter (Dick Meister of San…
Schools Starting to Recognize Pupils’ Privacy Rights
Three swallows do not a summer make, but straws in the wind at the local level of public education indicate that some schools are starting to show respect…
Education Reporter — December 1988
The Growing Use and Misuse of Ritalin
Recent journals of the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association have brought out into the open forum of public discussion a practice that has hitherto evaded…
Who are the Enemies of the Blacks?
Conventional wisdom is that the welfare state is the savior of the blacks, who are presumed to need the goodies of government generosity in order to alleviate their…
The American Civil Liberties Union Policies — December 1988
Witches Ride in the Classroom
For most of us, Halloween is a mildly amusing night that means jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treaters, and children garbed in ridiculous costumes. Fortunately, it comes only once a year, as…