While the headlines of the last few weeks have focused on the budget and its deficit, other debates on economic matters have been going on in the Senate and House which could have far-reaching results. The budget relates principally to dollars and … [Read more...] about COMPARABLE WORTH COLLOQUIES AMONG CONGRESSMEN

In an attempt to deal with the threats to American rights posed by the Genocide Treaty drafted by the United Nations in 1948 and still pending, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee labored mightily and attached several provisos. Although these … [Read more...] about Can the Genocide Treaty Be Cleaned Up?

Switzerland's office of civil defense displays an eye-catching graph showing the ratio between military and civilian victims of war. In World War I, it was 20:1 (20 military personnel killed to every one civilian). In World War II, it was 11:1; in … [Read more...] about Swiss Civil Defense — The Real Thing

The day the news hit the fan that the French Foreign Ministry had protested the "unacceptable character" of the outspoken comments by departing U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith, I was visiting with French friends in Paris. They not only were not … [Read more...] about The State Department Should Follow Our Election Returns

"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

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

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