The hottest items among the some 230 ballot issues being voted on in this November election are gambling, abortion, and taxes. The nuclear freeze, which was the most controversial ballot issue in 1982, was doused with anti-freeze in the U.S. Senate … [Read more...] about Referendum and Initiative Ballot Issues

Since Congressional committees in recent years seldom provide a forum for witnesses with expertise on the subject of internal security, some private organizations have moved to fill the gap. A group of military and intelligence experts collaborating … [Read more...] about Threats From Nicaragua

Common contemporary wisdom is that, (a) if the Soviets push the nuclear button and we retaliate, there will be no winners and the world's population will be destroyed, and (b) therefore, nuclear war can be avoided by a mutual fear of the horror of it … [Read more...] about Civil Defense Needed

A recent letter from a reader really made my day. Let me share it with you. It's about one of my favorite subjects -- teaching children to read by the phonics method (which means teaching the sounds and syllables of the English language). "Dear Mrs. … [Read more...] about Sucsess and Failure in the Teaching of Reading

When the Commission on International Women's Year, funded by 5 million federal tax dollars, held its famous boondoggle in Houston on November 18-21, 1977, it passed 25 resolutions on issues which were deemed of importance to women by Chairwoman Bella … [Read more...] about Pornography and Violence Against Women

In recent months, television viewers and newspaper readers have been given a steady stream of commentary about the alleged need for day-care subsidies for children whose mothers are in the paid labor force. TV segments portray the plight of the … [Read more...] about Point of View About Mothers At Home

The national media are going through a terrible reappraisal of their own power. Their first comeuppance was the reaction of the American public when the media were not invited to President Reagan's liberation of Granada; their second blow is the … [Read more...] about The Media Unhappy With Reagan’s Image

It's hard to believe in the sincerity of the anti-defense agitators. For years they have argued against nuclear missiles on the emotional grounds that they are terrible weapons of mass destruction which, whether launched deliberately or accidentally, … [Read more...] about An Anti-Satelite Defense

The expression "Star Wars" has been used for the last year as an epithet to try to ridicule President Ronald Reagan's proposal to build a defensive system to shoot down enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles before they rain fire and destruction … [Read more...] about Star Wars

"Sex" is a word of several different meanings which may be loosely grouped under the categories of the sex you are and the sex you do. As used in the context of "sex discrimination" legislation and litigation, however, we are usually told that its … [Read more...] about Sex and Honor