Although the national media have not yet discovered it, the hottest issue on the radio talk and call-in programs at the grassroots of America is the battle between those who believe that the public schools have the right to do whatever they want with … [Read more...] about A STUDENT’S BILL OF RIGHTS

Well, well. The "right wing fundamentalists" and the "Bible-thumping parents" who have been pilloried for the last year with the charge that they are "censors" must be howling with laughter. Funny thing, though, we haven't heard a chirp from Norman … [Read more...] about WHO ARE THE CENSORS?

Secretary of Education William Bennett wants Congress and the American taxpayers to take a fresh look at "bilingual education." Indeed, this fresh look is long overdue. In the last ten years, bilingual education has become just another Federal … [Read more...] about Bilingual Education Is a Cheat on Children

It's time once again for our yearly review of the National Education Association's annual edition of "Today's Education," a 166-page yearbook documenting the NEA's radical agenda. The NEA's $97.5 million budget for the coming year will be used to … [Read more...] about THE NEA MANIFESTO

Plowing the ground for the Presidential primaries isn't the only reason why some big names have been trekking to Michigan this fall. Some have been going to declare sides on the volatile issue of whether or not Michigan should tip the balance and … [Read more...] about CONSTITUTIONAL BAIT-AND-SWITCH

Ronald Reagan's rescue of the island of Grenada two years ago this month was the most anti-Communist act our government has taken since the Eisenhower Administration rescued Guatemala from the Communists in 1954. It was also one of the most popular … [Read more...] about Lessons of Grenada

The time has come to withdraw from the MAD ABM Treaty of 1972. Our initial mistake in signing it is compounded every year that we allow ourselves to be bound by it while the Soviets are not. "MAD" is not an epithet invented by the treaty's critics. … [Read more...] about Withdraw from the Mad Abm Treaty

Shakespeare's great line that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players" will be true in spades when two great actors meet in Geneva in November. Of course, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is an actor! He's been giving Academy … [Read more...] about THE REAGAN—GORBACHEV SUMMIT

In passing a bookstore recently, I noticed a poster in the window headlined "National Banned Books Week," accompanied by a button saying "I read banned books." The poster featured, among others, pictures of William Shakespeare and Alexander … [Read more...] about Banned Books

Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in last November's election should have laid to rest the number-one point of controversy between the two Presidential candidates. But the national media have been trying to make us believe something … [Read more...] about Raising Taxes Won’t Reduce Deficits