THE FOREIGN POLICY GAP
Family fights and intra-party squabbles are more newsworthy than ordinary disputes between known enemies. That’s why it is fascinating to watch the trench warfare between the high command…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
An Open Letter to Parents of Public School Children
Let’s imagine that you could voluntarily transfer your child from the public elementary school he now attends to another public school in your same school district where he…
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
After all these years, I went for the first time to the Metropolitan Opera at its beautiful modern Opera House in New York City. The performance was Bizet’s…
Separation of Church and State
“Separation of church and state” is the proclaimed purpose of an organization called People for the American Way (PAW), founded by TV scriptwriter Norman Lear and now headed…
Here’s Looking at You Two
The School Board in Lynden, Washington, recently terminated the use of a drug education curriculum called “Here’s Looking at You Two.” This action caused quite an uproar in…
What’s Wrong With Global Education?
Global Education is one of the fads sweeping through public schools in the 1980s. It’s appearing in most schools, in most grade levels, in most teacher workshops, and…
PRESIDENT REAGAN’S DEFENSE SPEECH
The principal purpose of President Ronald Reagan’s nationally televised speech on defense was to win support for his defense budget. Those who failed to watch his speech live…
GORBACHEV’S BUILDDOWN PROPOSAL
Soviet boss Mikhail Gorbachev has made President Reagan an offer: First, scrap SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) and, second, we’ll join in a “builddown” of nuclear weapons. Should Gorbachev…
DOES MOM HAVE TO WORK?
ABC-TV Network and Barbara Walters are lobbying for government, instead of parents, to assume the responsibility of taking care of babies. That’s the conclusion we can draw from…
PRESIDENT REAGAN’S DEFENSE SPEECH
Yes, indeed, it is our President’s “highest duty,” as Ronald Reagan said, “to preserve peace and defend these United States.” Nothing the Federal Government does is more crucial.…