How does the Federal bureaucracy fund new projects which Congress has not approved and for which Congress has not appropriated any money? A good example is provided by the way Federal tax dollars are currently being spent for International Women's … [Read more...] about International Woman’s Year
Gauvin on Vietnam
In the final hours of the fall of South Vietnam, the news media printed and aired extensive wrap-up coverage on the entire tragedy in Southeast Asia. Somehow, however, our gigantic news gathering facilities failed to interview the man who is … [Read more...] about Gauvin on Vietnam
Solution for Unemployment
Our biggest problem today is not the energy shortage. It is the job shortage. More than nine million Americans are un employed, and their savings and unemployment benefits are running out fast. George Meany has been running large newspaper ads to … [Read more...] about Solution for Unemployment
Phu Quoc Refugees
When the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Agreement of 1954 cut Vietnam in half, one million Roman Catholics. in North Vietnam fled to freedom in South Vietnam. Among them was Tran Thi Nam, a woman then 87 years young in her … [Read more...] about Phu Quoc Refugees
Land Use Control
The land controllers are back again with retreads of last year's defeated bills. Congressman Morris Udall's Land Use and Resource Conservation Act of 1975 could prove to be the most damaging blow ever dealt to the American concept of private land … [Read more...] about Land Use Control
Why Vietnam?
The tragedy called the Vietnam War has run its course. The United States poured into it eight years of effort, the lives of 50,000 of our finest young men, the good health of another 300,000, $150 billion of our hard-earned tax money, and the honor … [Read more...] about Why Vietnam?
India’s Ingratitude
Of all the faults that poison human relationships, surely ingratitude is one of the most detestable. Shakespeare called it a "marble-hearted fiend" and pronounced it worse than "lying, vainness, or babbling drunkenness." For 25 years, the United … [Read more...] about India’s Ingratitude
National Science Foundation
There is a certain group of Congressmen who have become super-solicitous about every dollar of defense expenditures. They are unwilling to accept the recommendations of our military experts, and require them to justify every weapon and explain every … [Read more...] about National Science Foundation
Corrupt Dictators
Former Vice President Ky of Vietnam, a has-been politician who hasn't been important for years even in his own country, dominated the American newscasts one day recently by issuing a statement in Guam charging that President Thieu was "corrupt." … [Read more...] about Corrupt Dictators
Job Preference
The unemployment rate has climbed to nearly nine percent, the highest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The plain fact is that there are not enough jobs to go around. However, the economic hardship of unemployment does not fall equally on … [Read more...] about Job Preference
