Medicare is the Cutting-Edge Issue
The Republicans are missing the boat on Medicare. They have retreated to the typical “moderate” Republican posture of endorsing an expensive liberal social program while asserting that they…
Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
Will Health Care Defeat Republicans in 1996?
The defeat of Clinton’s Health Care bill last year was a big victory for Republicans and played a major role in the election of a Republican Majority in…
Let’s Punish Criminals, Not Snoop on Private Citizens
Are the Republicans in Congress going to roll over and let the Clinton Administration use the Oklahoma City tragedy as an excuse to establish a federal police state…
Conference of the States Is Losing in the States — May 1995
Conference of the States Is Losing in the States The so-called Conference of the States (COS), which was originally planned to sail through state legislatures without…
Getting a Job After Graduation Isn’t Easy Any More
The defeat of Clinton’s Health Care bill last year was a big victory for Republicans and played a major role in the election of a Republican Majority in…
Bush’s Spring Frolic In Cancun
Like many teenagers, President Bush dashed off to Cancun for spring break. Protected by a long and impenetrable fence and plenty of security guards, he met privately with…
What’s Wrong with “The Conference of the States”? — April 1995
What’s Wrong with “The Conference of the States”? Similar resolutions calling for a “Conference of the States” (COS) have been passed this year in at least four…
Affirmative Action Is on the Way Out
When even the head of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) says that Affirmative Action on the basis of race and sex is “patently unfair” and has helped lead…
Controversial History Standards Fight Back
Don’t think that we can all forget about the controversial National Standards for United States History just because the U.S. Senate voted 99 to I to repudiate them.…
UN “Experts” Show Their Hand About Treaty on the Child
It was appropriate that Hillary Rodham Clinton was the one who announced that the Clinton Administration signed the United Nations Convention (Treaty) on the Rights of the Child…