“Ring out the old, ring in the new,” peal the bells at this time of the year. Indeed, there is a perennial appeal for discarding the old and welcoming the new. Anyone who opposes change is by definition an old fogy, a Neanderthal, and an obstacle to … [Read more...] about Something New Under the Sun

Among the several times that Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev showed their bad manners while in Washington for the recent Summit, the most outrageous was when Gorby declaimed, "What moral right does the United States have to preach to us, to the rest of … [Read more...] about Who Has the Moral Right to Preach?

Chalk up another victory in the continuing saga of parents versus professionals about sex education in the public schools. After months of highly-charged controversy, the professionals retreated in disarray before a phalanx of parents armed with a … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania Parents Victory

Opponents of SDI (Ronald Reagan’s proposal to build a Strategic Defense Initiative) are fond of saying it is worthless because "SDI cannot provide 100 percent protection against nuclear missiles. If the Soviets fire their missile force against us, … [Read more...] about Scenario Shows SDI Needed

At last a businessman has spoken out and called a spade a spade about the way business has had to assume the costs of teaching new employees what they should have learned in public elementary schools. David T. Kearns, board chairman of the Xerox … [Read more...] about LET’S FINANCE STUDENTS, NOT SCHOOLS

Have you wondered how the leftwing seems to have so much money for high-powered public relations and lobbying campaigns? The answer is that they not only have their own money but they have generous donations from big corporations, too. We are … [Read more...] about HOW CORPORATIONS FUND THE LEFT

Americans were surprised to learn recently that an American-Soviet Textbook Study Project has been evaluating how textbooks in each country portray life in the other. A couple of weeks ago in Racine, Wisconsin, the professors working on this project … [Read more...] about U.S.-SOVIET TEXTBOOK COOPERATION

The New York Times has accused the eight Republican members of the Iran-Contra committees of "trivializing the Iran-Contra affair." The truth is that those Republicans deserve a medal for putting Iran-Contra into perspective after the liberals in … [Read more...] about Iran-contra Is a Political Not Criminal Affair

Technology is changing our lives in many ways, one of which is to enable millions of Americans to work at home instead of spending time and money on daily transportation to another place of work. What has made home-work possible is the availability … [Read more...] about HOME-BASED WORK: A WOMAN’S ISSUE