It is rather obvious that the financial and media establishment in the United States has decided that the political survival of Mikhail Gorbachev is more in our national interest than the freedom of Lithuania or the other Captive Nations. After all, … [Read more...] about Is Gorbachev Good for America?
Time for Confession About Katyn Forest
It took exactly 50 years for the Soviets to confess the truth about Stalin’s most brutal and cunning crime. On April 13, they apologized for the massacre of 15,000 Polish officers at Katyn Forest. During late 1939 and early 1940, when Stalin … [Read more...] about Time for Confession About Katyn Forest
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
War of the Roses
I finally saw the movie “War of the Roses” after it left the theaters and hit the video circuit. It was quite a surprise to find an old-fashioned morality play lurking behind an R-rated movie with bad words and embarrassingly explicit sexual … [Read more...] about War of the Roses
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
Special-Interest Agendas in the Classroom
Look who is trying to impose a special-interest agenda on the captive audience of other people’s minor children in the public schools! It’s not the right wingers, not the fundamentalists, but the environmentalists, the media, and the … [Read more...] about Special-Interest Agendas in the Classroom
Three Cheers for the Anti-Communists
This is a time of vindication and rejoicing for all longtime anti-Communists. In their hearts, they always knew they were right, but now they can see the proof every night on their television screens. The happenings of the last year give the longtime … [Read more...] about Three Cheers for the Anti-Communists
Promises to “Fix” the Religious Daycare Issue
One of the several reasons why Congress left the Hawkins and Downey daycare bills twisting in the wind at the time of the Christmas recess was a failure to agree on how to handle the ticklish issue of religious daycare. At least a third of … [Read more...] about Promises to “Fix” the Religious Daycare Issue
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
Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
California is a trend setter for all sorts of movements that have swept across our nation from no-fault divorce to the tax-cutting Proposition 13. Now the California Republican State Central Committee meeting on March 9-11 will set the stage for … [Read more...] about Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?