At last, a study on pornography has been published demolishing the pornography report published 15 years ago which was dishonest, defective and, in addition, is now badly overtaken by events. No longer can the $4 billion smut-peddling racket pretend … [Read more...] about New Report on Pornography

There was bad news and good news about the House vote to deny military aid to Nicaragua. The bad news was that the House voted against the Reagan request to send that pitiful $14 million to help the Freedom Fighters. The good news was that this … [Read more...] about U.S. Stakes in Nicaragua

If the 1984 election meant anything, it meant a consensus -- or at least an awakening of the American people -- that liberal spending programs not only don't solve social problems, they become part of the problem itself. This awakening is reflected … [Read more...] about Some Social Spending Problems

If you took a public opinion survey on the question, "Do you favor Drug Education in the schools?" probably a high percentage of people would answer yes. Most would infer that "Drug Education" means teaching children that they should NOT take illegal … [Read more...] about What Does Drug Education Mean

The matter of the credibility of the media has risen from the status of carping conservative complaints to a controversial issue of public importance. CBS's paranoid reaction to takeover attempts has resulted in "media fairness" being talked about … [Read more...] about Credibility of the Media

Much of modern politics has become a process of taking public opinion polls and then structuring your campaign to appeal to the perceived attitudes of your constituents. Surely Walter Mondale knows this; he has spent his whole life in politics. So, … [Read more...] about Making Mistakes in Politics

It has become a time-hallowed tradition in the Soviet Union that the incumbent dictator will test each new American President In an ordeal of summitry. This practice was temporarily put on the backburner during the illnesses and deaths of Leonid … [Read more...] about Ronald Reagan and Summits With the Soviets

Does "sex education" in the public schools mean having an employee of the local abortion clinic conduct a class for 15-year-olds and peddle its commercial services? That's the shocking news the public learned on a recent MacNeil-Lehrer TV … [Read more...] about What Does “Sex Education” Really Mean?

The networks have become so paranoid about the possibility of a Jesse Helms takeover of CES that a New York public relations firm has been hired to survey opinion leaders about their perception of the networks' "bias," "power," and "arrogance." After … [Read more...] about Media Double Standard on Southeast Asia

The opponents of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), his so-called Star Wars program, having lost all their other arguments against it, now claim that it would violate the SALT I ABM Treaty of 1972. That's just as false as saying that … [Read more...] about Does SALT Prohibit Star Wars?