AIKEN’S EXPLANATION
Every prosecuting attorney knows that, no matter how conclusive the eyewitness and circumstantial evidence, it is next to ‘impossible to convince a jury to return a conviction unless…
Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
DR. BURNS’ WARNINGS ON GOLD
Just before gold went on sale in the United States for the first time in 40 years, Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve System criticized those Americans…
UN-APPROVED EXPROPRIATION
By a vote of 120 to 6, the United Nations General Assembly recently approved something called a “Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States.” It would be…
PARTY CONVENTION RULES
There are two basic approaches to permitting people to partici pate in their government. The first, called functional representation, is based on the theory that society is made…
The West Virginia Textbook Case — January 1975
FOREIGN HANDOUTS
One of the many good effects we can hope for from the recent passage of the new amendments to the Freedom of Information Act is the declassification and…
NOBEL PRIZES
The biggest surprise in the intellectual world during 1974 was the awarding of one-half of a Nobel Prize for Economics to Professor Friedrich von Hayek of Austria —…
Simas Kudirka’s Gift to America — December 1974
THE RIGHT NOT TO VOTE
After the 1974 election returns showed that only 38 percent of the voting-age population cast ballots the American people have been subjected to recriminations from do-gooders who bemoan…
THANKSGIVING & FOOD
Thanksgiving is the most traditionally American holiday. Its observance was started by the Pilgrim Fathers 150 years before the founding of the United States. A Thanksgiving for abundant…