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

Norman Lear's well-funded organ for political activism called People for the American Way (PAW) sees itself as a secularized St. George slaying the dragon of any public expression of religion. PAW seeks a world in which the First Amendment is the … [Read more...] about The Hypocrisy About an Independent Judiciary

When the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the concept called Comparable Worth, did you get the impression that this was a loss for women who had been discriminated against? If so, you missed the point; the court's opinion said that "none of … [Read more...] about Comparable Worth Rejected by the Courts

I must confess that I never would have read the magazine if Eastern Airlines hadn't provided free copies as I boarded the shuttle at LaGuardia airport. But as I thumbed the pages of Gloria Steinem's Ms. Magazine, waiting for my plane to take off, I … [Read more...] about Ms. Magazine Discovers Human Nature

"Oh, but it will interfere with arms control!" cry the liberals at every event that might cast a cloud over the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Geneva in November. But the real truth is that arms control is already a failure and we should admit … [Read more...] about Let’s Admit Arms Control Is a Failure

A recent article by a left-handed writer summarized very well the centuries-old unreasonable and unfeeling discrimination which society has imposed on left-handed persons. He told how growing up in the New York public schools in the 1930s and 1940s … [Read more...] about ANTI-LEFT-HANDEDNESS AND SEXISM

A proposed constitutional amendment died this August, and good riddance. It was a lemon when it came out of Congress seven years ago, and it didn't improve with age. Only 16 states ratified it; 34 states did not. Our U.S. Constitution can be changed … [Read more...] about DEMISE OF THE D.C. AMENDMENT

Some California state and local employees were required to attend some very strange state-mandated "training programs" this past summer. Were these programs to promote improved job performance? Well, judge for yourself. One three-hour session was … [Read more...] about STRANGE EMPLOYEE TRAINING PROGRAMS