Banned Books
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…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
The Hypocrisy About an Independent Judiciary
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…
Raising Taxes Won’t Reduce Deficits
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…
Comparable Worth Rejected by the Courts
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…
Ms. Magazine Discovers Human Nature
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…
Let’s Admit Arms Control Is a Failure
“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…
ANTI-LEFT-HANDEDNESS AND SEXISM
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…
DEMISE OF THE D.C. AMENDMENT
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…
STRANGE EMPLOYEE TRAINING PROGRAMS
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,…
Insurance, Schools, and AIDS
The reopening of schools this fall has thrust upon them three new problems: insurance, AIDS, and the nexus between the two. Many school districts and local government bodies…