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

Condom-mania has been sweeping the country for the last year. One can hardly turn on television, read a newspaper, or participate in a school curriculum discussion without being battered with the demand that people and pupils be encouraged to use … [Read more...] about Condom-Mania Con Job

"Censorship attempts jumped by 20 percent during the last school year," proclaimed a recent news release by Norman Lear’s People for the American Way. PAW’s annual report, called "Attacks on the Freedom to Learn," listed and described the details of … [Read more...] about THE REAL ISSUE IS POOR JUDGMENT, NOT CENSORSHIP

Our United States Constitution should be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest and longest-lasting constitution in all the world's history. How is it that this rather short document, sometimes called "four little pages," was able to … [Read more...] about OUR CONSTITUTION’S 200th BIRTHDAY

Eliza Paschall, former staff member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Atlanta with a long record of working for civil rights and feminist goals, has written an open letter to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, author of the … [Read more...] about WHAT’S WRONG WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WOMEN?

Americans are long accustomed to the media stricture that it is the news, not the normal happenstance, that must be reported. We are told that what is unusual is news; the ordinary does not merit front-page headlines or on-the-spot eyewitness camera … [Read more...] about What’s Normal and What’s News?

The National Education Association has proved again that it has an ultra-leftwing extremist agenda. Let’s take a look at some of the NEA’s recently-passed 1987 Convention resolutions. The NEA Resolutions call for more counseling and contraceptives … [Read more...] about NEA Resolutions Shock Again