Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger's testimony last September before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was recently released, and it gives us the facts of life about the naked power of the new Soviet supermissiles, the SS-18s. They have a … [Read more...] about SCHLESINGER’S SCENARIO
THE SOVIET GAS DEAL
Natural gas is the cheapest and cleanest of our energy sources. Although gas is in short supply on our East and West coasts, our Government's policies toward solving this shortage, in the words of Alice in Wonderland, grow "curiouser and … [Read more...] about THE SOVIET GAS DEAL
STEALING OUR FISH
With food becoming more expensive and sometimes even in short supply, many of us would like to get more of our protein from fish. Our tremendously long coastline and thousands of lakes and rivers should give Americans an abundant supply of cheap and … [Read more...] about STEALING OUR FISH
PANAMA TREATY
This month was the Tenth Anniversary of the 1964 riots at the Panama Canal in which three American soldiers were killed. Our State Department thinks that a good way to observe such an anniversary is to give more concessions to the rioters. That is … [Read more...] about PANAMA TREATY
OPERATION KEELHAUL
The right to stamp a document "Top Secret" is one of the most abused prerogatives of the Federal Government. The purpose of this power is to safeguard national security, but it is often. used to hide the mistakes of public officials, to protect their … [Read more...] about OPERATION KEELHAUL
Federal Spending For Education
One of the evidences that our society has become more materialistic than idealistic is the general presumption that all problems can be solved by spending more money. Nowhere is this delusion so rampant as in the field of education. Between 1961 and … [Read more...] about Federal Spending For Education
TESTING MINUTEMEN
For years, the appeasement-minded Senators have been assuring us that the Soviets will never fire their nuclear missiles at us because the United States has sufficient missiles to retaliate and destroy theSoviet Union. The plain fact is, however, … [Read more...] about TESTING MINUTEMEN
SOLVING THE OIL CRISIS
History is full of examples of how government controls of various kinds create shortages of economic goods. There simply is no way that a government bureaucracy can run an economic system as efficiently as the free market. Russia was a … [Read more...] about SOLVING THE OIL CRISIS
SOLZHENITSYN’S NEW BOOK
In THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Shakespeare wrote: "Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long." But how long can it be hidden? A year? Ten years? Joseph Stalin's murders have been rather well hidden for 35 years. It has taken that long for … [Read more...] about SOLZHENITSYN’S NEW BOOK
LEGAL SERVICES
One of the strangest anomalies of the Nixon Administration is the way it violates all rules of politics by repeatedly offending its friends in a vain attempt to placate its enemies. Take, for example, the case of Governor Meldrim Thompson of New … [Read more...] about LEGAL SERVICES