For those who have been saying education is the answer to AIDS, Secretary of Education William Bennett has provided the tool. In order to implement an AIDS curriculum, all the public schools need is Bennett’s newly-released 28-page booklet called … [Read more...] about Bennett’s New Booklet on Aids

The covers of the two leading newsmagazines usually feature the same ideas or trends, as seen by different editorial writers and photographers, which is to be expected since their mission is to report the news of the week. It was a striking contrast … [Read more...] about Who Is a Wimp?

A worldwide "Synod on the Laity" called by Pope John Paul II is meeting in Rome, Italy all during the month of October. More than 200 Catholic bishops from all over the world were selected to attend, some by their peers in their own country and some … [Read more...] about THE PAPAL SYNOD ON THE LAITY

While the Senate and the media have been preoccupied with the Bork and Biden controversies, the House has been getting into some mischief of its own. All of a sudden, without any warning, a truly revolutionary bill unanimously passed a House … [Read more...] about Retain the Hatch Amendment Act

What would you think of a cooking instructor who taught his students how to cook (how to measure ingredients, turn on the stove, run an electric beater, etc.) but neglected to tell his students how to get the right ingredients and what the cooked … [Read more...] about MEMORY IS MISSING FROM EDUCATION

Can one week change the world, as Richard Nixon so extravagantly claimed about his 1972 visit to Red China? Certainly that week didn’t do it, but the world could have been changed for the foreseeable future during the week of the Cuban Missile … [Read more...] about Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis

When President Reagan’s new AIDS Commission gets down to serious business, it should study an important package of newly-passed state legislation. Illinois lunged to leadership in the what-to-do-about-AIDS dilemma when Governor James Thompson signed … [Read more...] about Suggestions for the Aids Commission

The power to prescribe a national curriculum for American public school students is the power to control the next generation. The prevailing consensus in America is that nobody should ever exercise such power because that would be incompatible with … [Read more...] about THE PUSH FOR A NATIONAL CURRICULUM

"What’s in a name?" Shakespeare asked. A lot, when it comes to politics, it seems. What the liberals have baptized as "the Civil Rights Restoration Bill" should really be named "the Civil Wrongs Bill of 1987." Sponsored by Edward Kennedy (D-MA) in … [Read more...] about THE CIVIL WRONGS BILL OF 1987

The Salt I Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972, comes up for its third five-year review on October 3. This would be a good time to withdraw from the Treaty according to the procedure set forth in its own terms. For two centuries, our … [Read more...] about Defend America! Terminate the Abm Treaty