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
BLAME FOR GASOLINE SHORTAGE
Who is to "blame for the gasoline and fuel oil shortage? The Middle East War? The environmentalists who blocked the Alaska pipeline and California offshore drillings? The politicians who thought frozen tundra and wilderness were more important than … [Read more...] about BLAME FOR GASOLINE SHORTAGE
NATIONAL PROTECTION ACT
When the House of Representatives recently voted 319 to 80 to bar loans and most-favored-nation status to the Soviet Union, it reflected the growing majority feeling of the American people who are fed up with the costly and dangerous policy of taxing … [Read more...] about NATIONAL PROTECTION ACT
INGENUITY AND TAXES
The recent news story about the Michigan man who makes his own gasoline in his back yard is a good reminder that Americans are a most ingenious people. This ex-chemistry teacher named Floyd Wallace feeds leaves, grass clippings, table scraps, coal, … [Read more...] about INGENUITY AND TAXES
POPULATION EXPLOSION
The Christmas season is a time for children — and also a time to explode the myth of the alleged population explosion. Our birthrate today is only two children per family. We have already reached Zero Population Growth, and the birth rate is still … [Read more...] about POPULATION EXPLOSION
THE PRAYER AMENDMENT
It has been eleven years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision banning prayers from public schools, but it still is a mystery how any judge could say that prayer violates the First Amendment, when all that Amendment says is that … [Read more...] about THE PRAYER AMENDMENT
