Summer Senate Silliness
Apparently tired of grappling with real problems (such as S&L, the budget, and the Middle East), Senate Democrats last week took a morning off for silliness and held…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
David Souter Ducks Media Abortion Bias
Both sides in the abortion debate, as well as the activist media, are beside themselves with frustration that they haven’t been able to find out which side Supreme…
The End of Brennan-Style Liberalism
The resignation of Justice William Brennan marks the termination of the modern liberal era in American politics. Liberalism has been kept alive for the last ten years only…
The Spending is More Obscene Than the Art
The picture in the advertisement caught my eye, as of course it was intended to do. The visual of that courageous Chinese student facing down the tanks in…
How Children Acquire Values
The National Commission on Children has held a series of hearings to explore the problems of children. As we emerge from the “Me” decades of the 1970s and…
The Panama Canal Issue Revisited
PBS television last month aired a two-hour program attempting to justify the giving away of our U.S. Canal at Panama by the Jimmy Carter Administration in 1978, a…
Parents Strike Back Against New Age
Finally, parents are starting to have some success in their efforts to eliminate New Age religious practices from the public school classroom. A strong policy prohibiting the use…
Playing Politics with the First Amendment
It looks like the start of a long, hot summer of politicians’ posturing about the First Amendment. It’s time we separate what is and what is not a…
Death Education Courses are a Tragedy
Of all the psychological experimentation that takes place in the public school classroom, courses in depth and dying are the strangest and often the most secret. A courageous…
Comparable Worth Proven a Failure
The evidence is now in. The concept called “Comparable Worth” is as wrongheaded and counterproductive as critics predicted when this feminoid notion emerged in the late 1970s. It…