New Year’s Resolutions
PC— PSI for 1/1/87 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS We have a custom in our family that each of us writes out New Year’s resolutions for other members of the…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Plotting to Rewrite the Constitution
An unreported meeting of about 30 persons took place at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on December 5 where some serious-minded movers and shakers plotted to rewrite…
The Minnesota School Survey
A recent flap about a privacy-invading questionnaire in the Minnesota public schools proves how arrogant they have become in treating schoolchildren like guinea pigs. The incident also shows…
A Christmas Letter to My Grandchildren
The airwaves and the newspapers are filled with advertisements for children’s toys. Christmas is redundantly merchandised for children: buy them dolls, buy them guns, buy them all the…
The Tennessee Case Misnamed Scopes Ii
The press buildup about the East Tennessee textbook case was widely mislabelled “Scopes II” even though it had nothing whatever to do with evolution and bore no relation…
Is Raising Teachers’ Salaries the Answer?
An exchange of letters in the journal Education Week pinpoints the perennial controversy about teachers’ salaries. There seems to be a widespread assumption that teachers are underpaid, and…
WOMEN AND FEMINISTS IN POLITICS
A lot of ink has been spread across newspapers and magazines since the November election discussing and analyzing women in politics. How did women candidates fare? Is the…
MEDIA MANIPULATION OF NATIONAL POLICY
Advocacy journalists in the national news media showed their bias against Ronald Reagan and against U.S. defenses by their reporting about the so-called breaking of the SALT II…
WHY SCHOOLCHILDREN ARE DEPRESSED
Those who are concerned about the depression that seems to be pandemic among schoolchildren today are looking everywhere except the obvious places to identify the causes. Like the…
THE SUCCESS OF REAGANOMICS#
Only 37 percent of Americans voted in the November 1986 election. Does that indicate that Americans are disaffected with or undeserving of democracy? On the contrary, that means…