Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
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…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Suggestions for the Aids Commission
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…
THE PUSH FOR A NATIONAL CURRICULUM
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…
Defend America! Terminate the Abm Treaty
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…
THE CIVIL WRONGS BILL OF 1987
“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…
Condom-Mania Con Job
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…
THE REAL ISSUE IS POOR JUDGMENT, NOT CENSORSHIP
“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…
OUR CONSTITUTION’S 200th BIRTHDAY
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…
WHAT’S WRONG WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WOMEN?
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…
What’s Normal and What’s News?
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…