Parents and taxpayers are winning nearly half their local curriculum battles to restore responsibility to our nation's public schools. That’s the good news from the annual survey of parent-school confrontations published recently by People for the … [Read more...] about Spooks and Witches in the Classroom
How the Left Uses “McCarthyism”
The term McCarthyism is not just an ordinary word weapon in the language of contemporary political combat. It has a very specific function: it is a scarlet “M” word, used by the Left as a trump card to terminate debate and intimidate … [Read more...] about How the Left Uses “McCarthyism”
Shame on Fortune Magazine
Fortune Magazine’s cover story on “The CEO’s Second Wife” is proof of what George Gilder wrote in his landmark book Men and Marriage, namely, that “the only undeniable winners in the sexual revolution are powerful men. Under a regime of sexual … [Read more...] about Shame on Fortune Magazine
“First Aid Kit” in Florida Schools
School bells are ringing again for the opening of school, but parents and students in Okaloosa County, Florida are in an uproar over a new course in the middle schools. Called “Bridges,” it is given for the first 20 minutes every morning, using New … [Read more...] about “First Aid Kit” in Florida Schools
Privacy Rights for Students
One of the largest school districts in the nation has just adopted a “Rights of Privacy Policy” which should be a model for all 15,500 school districts across the country. It was unanimously passed by the Montgomery County Board of Education, which … [Read more...] about Privacy Rights for Students
Giving Parents Real Options
AT&T recently made headlines by signing a pact with its two unions that includes what the press called an “unprecedented breakthrough” for a “family benefits package.” The centerpiece is a $5 million fund to subsidize daycare, and the … [Read more...] about Giving Parents Real Options
The Feminization of the Military
The same week that Middle East terrorists and the hostage problem dominated the news, the New York Times featured a front-page story headlined "West Point Picks Woman to Lead Cadet Corps." The position of first captain of the Corps of Cadets, the … [Read more...] about The Feminization of the Military
Privacy-Invading Survey Stirs Up Storm in Chapel Hill
Here we go again with another impertinent, obnoxious, privacy-invading questionnaire, devised by so-called education “experts” in a state university and administered to a captive audience in the public school classroom by personnel who apparently … [Read more...] about Privacy-Invading Survey Stirs Up Storm in Chapel Hill
The Injustice of Raising Taxes
The night hardly passes without television newscasts and newspapers embellishing some story with a “spin” demanding that President Bush agree to raise taxes in order to increase aid to the poor (or the homeless, or the students, or the elderly, or … [Read more...] about The Injustice of Raising Taxes
So That’s Why the Feminists Are So Bitter!
Ever since the feminist ideologues burst into our national consciousness in the mid-1960s, I have wondered where they got their peculiar notions about men. Feminist “gospel” according to Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Kate … [Read more...] about So That’s Why the Feminists Are So Bitter!
