Academic freedom and educational diversity won a great victory when the U.S.Senate voted to block the Internal Revenue Service from implementing its proposedregulation threatening the tax-deductible status of thousands of private and … [Read more...] about ACADEMIC FREEDOM VICTORY
ABORTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
President Carter has proclaimed the week of September 17 to 23 as Constitution Week and urged all Americans "to foster a better understanding of the Constitution." This is a great opportunity to study and put to use some of the valuable, but seldom … [Read more...] about ABORTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
LAWSUIT TO DISCOVER TECHNOLOGY SHIPMENTS
Would you believe that, if U.S. firms were to build a giant truck-manufacturing plant for the Russians, they could be relied on to build only civilian trucks and not military trucks? The average American would probably answer "don't be ridiculous," … [Read more...] about LAWSUIT TO DISCOVER TECHNOLOGY SHIPMENTS
U.S. DOLLARS VS. OVERSEAS DOLLARS
It isn't the decline in the value of the U.S. dollar on foreign money markets that is causing economic woes to American citizens; it's the inflation at home. Yet the Carter Administration appears to prefer to shore up the overseas dollar at the … [Read more...] about U.S. DOLLARS VS. OVERSEAS DOLLARS
Washington, D.C. Amendment
State Legislatures are rejecting the proposed Washington, DC Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by a ratio of almost three to one. Original motions for ratification have already failed in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, South Carolina, Missouri, … [Read more...] about Washington, D.C. Amendment
CHANGES IN EATING HABITS
"Mom's apple pie." "Grandma's pancakes." "Fried chicken like mother used to make." "Dinners that taste like home cooking." That's the way restaurants used to advertise their specialties. But no more. Home cooking is out of style. Mom isn't in the … [Read more...] about CHANGES IN EATING HABITS
NEED FOR “PEOPLE-SIZED” INSTITUTIONS
"Excessive greatness of a town," "multitude of corporations," and too much "ghostly authority" or power of organized religion were listed by the 17th-century British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes among infirmities of a commonwealth. He … [Read more...] about NEED FOR “PEOPLE-SIZED” INSTITUTIONS
SPINKS AND PRUITT-IGOE
The movie ROCKY, in which a street-fighter and amateur boxer from the Italian ghetto got a chance to fight the heavyweight champion, would not have been believable if Rocky had actually won the championship. The happy ending of that movie was … [Read more...] about SPINKS AND PRUITT-IGOE
The Santa Claus State
John Maynard Keynes is a perfect illustration of the truth of his own words when he said: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the … [Read more...] about The Santa Claus State
How Old is Too Old?
The gloom-and-doom commentators who solemnly assured us after the election last year that Ronald Reagan, now age 66, and Gerald Ford, who will be 64 this year, were too old ever to be presidential candidates again, must feel a little foolish as they … [Read more...] about How Old is Too Old?
