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.…
Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
Appointments to the Supreme Court
What kind of persons should be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and whether some kind of a qualifying test should be applied, was one of the lesser…
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…
The Transition To A New Administration — November 1980
GETTING NONVOTERS TO THE POLLS
As America approaches what may be the most important national election of our times, more than 50 million Americans may decide not to vote. In the United States,…
Party Platform Comparisons, 1980 – October 1980
Party Platform Contrasts
A comparison of the 1980 Republican and Democratic Party Platforms on key issues proves that the familiar slogan “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two…
Thinking the Unthinkable
Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Directive 59 was supposedly designed to scare the Russians by announcing a new U.S. strategy which contemplates retaliating against some military targets in case of…