At a recent two-day conference on Teenage Suicide in Washington, D.C., there was an undercurrent among some speakers and social workers to demand mandatory "suicide" courses in the schools. Other speakers said this would be the worst thing that could … [Read more...] about Teenage Suicide Caused by Classroom Courses

"War wimps" was the topic of a recent column by Mike Royko, a liberal journalist with a sharp tongue. A war wimp is a tough-talking hawk who, when a war is actually being fought, finds it convenient to be somewhere safe rather than where the fighting … [Read more...] about War Wimps

Powerful forces in our country today seem determined to push all mothers out of the home and into the paid labor force. This is the obvious explanation of the socially unjust system of imposing heavier taxes on parents who care for their own children … [Read more...] about TAX FAIRNESS TO FAMILIES

One day I asked my children, "Why is it that none of the six of you is a smoker? Is it because your dad and mother don't smoke? Or is it because you were dissuaded by our repeated sermons on the health risks of smoking?" "Neither," one of my … [Read more...] about SMOKING AND SEX

The first time a mother called me about her first-grade child being required to lie down on the floor of the classroom to eliminate "stress," I thought I was dealing with an overreacting parent who had misunderstood something. Then a second mother … [Read more...] about QUIETING REFLEX IN THE CLASSROOM

Long ago a poet boasted, "I care not who writes my country's laws so long as I can write its songs." A look at our nation's songs can tell pretty well what is in the hearts of those who sing them. When I was a teenager in the Big Band era of the … [Read more...] about MUSIC AND TEENAGE SUICIDE

Outside of the Soviets, the heaviest artillery fired at Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, otherwise known in the media as Star Wars) has come from some scientists, especially from the Union of Concerned Scientists. It's now clear … [Read more...] about The Politics of Some Scientists

In the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision against the Alabama school prayer law, Justice William Rehnquist lashed out in dissent at how the First Amendment for the last 40 years has been weighted down with Thomas Jefferson's "misleading metaphor" … [Read more...] about Clarifying History on Church and State

A phony flap was created in the media recently when Governor Mario Cuomo and Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder attacked White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan for saying that President Reagan's tax reform proposal would help traditional … [Read more...] about Who’s Pro-family About Taxes

Thirty liberal educator organizations which are determined to exclude parents from having any say-so about the public schools have banded together in a new group called the "Hatch Amendment Coalition" (HAC). Their stated purpose is to oppose the 1984 … [Read more...] about Hatch Amendment Coalition