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 Tiananmen Square is always a grabber. But the text was downright ridiculous. It conjured up … [Read more...] about The Spending is More Obscene Than the Art
The Panama Canal Issue Revisited
PBS television last month aired a two-hour program attempting to justify the giving away of our U.S. Canal at Panama by the Jimmy Carter Administration in 1978, a transfer which will take final effect in the year 2000. That date is approaching … [Read more...] about The Panama Canal Issue Revisited
Comparable Worth Proven a Failure
The evidence is now in. The concept called “Comparable Worth” is as wrongheaded and counterproductive as critics predicted when this feminoid notion emerged in the late 1970s. It is a relic of the Big Brother extravagances of the LBJ Great Society … [Read more...] about Comparable Worth Proven a Failure
The Failure of Our Monopoly School System — June 1990
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 their number-one issue. This is just an example of the … [Read more...] about Conservatism is Alive and Innovative
The Total Difference in the Child Care Bills
When the liberal Democratic leadership plowed ahead with its determination to set up a federal baby-sitting bureaucracy, House conservatives countered with their substitute, called Stenholm-Shaw. The difference between Hawkins-Downey and … [Read more...] about The Total Difference in the Child Care Bills
The New York Times Pro-Abortion Bias is Showing
Most media observers have recognized for year that the New York Times’ slogan “All the News that’s Fit to Print” should read, “All the News that Fits.” The Times’ reportage on the March 20 Illinois Primary is a case in point. The Times’ … [Read more...] about The New York Times Pro-Abortion Bias is Showing
Facing the Future: Family vs. Feminism — April 1990
The Anti-Communists Were Right, After All — April 1990
How to Spend the Peace Dividend
A combination of President Bush’s “read my lips” determination to veto any tax increases plus the shadow of the federal deficit has kept the liberal Democratic Congress from initiating any new spending program. But now, rash talk of a “peace … [Read more...] about How to Spend the Peace Dividend
