Swiss Civil Defense — The Real Thing
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…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
The State Department Should Follow Our Election Returns
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…
Teenage Suicide Caused by Classroom Courses
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…
War Wimps
“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…
TAX FAIRNESS TO FAMILIES
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…
SMOKING AND SEX
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?…
QUIETING REFLEX IN THE CLASSROOM
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…
MUSIC AND TEENAGE SUICIDE
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…
The Politics of Some Scientists
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,…
Clarifying History on Church and State
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…