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?

As more and more people write about the doctrine called "Comparable Worth," it becomes more and more evident that the proposed solution would be far worse than the problem. Comparable Worth is a wage-setting system under which an employer is required … [Read more...] about How Comparable Worth Would Hurt Women

Well, the pundits underestimated the Gipper again. They said he is a lame duck President who won't have enough influence to pass any of his programs. But he persuaded Congress to authorize the MX missile against all odds, and even in spite of Barry … [Read more...] about Reagan Is Still in Charge

While traveling through Ohio recently, a mother handed me a letter she found in her 4th grade child's bedroom. In an envelope addressed to President Reagan, here is the letter, complete with misspellings and bad grammar. "Dear Mr. Reagan. I don't … [Read more...] about Scaring Children in the Classroom