Unlike "old soldiers" who "just fade away," old unratified treaties remain in the desk drawers of the Senate, always available for unpredictable ratification by any handful of Senators. Unlike proposed legislation which dies at the end of each … [Read more...] about The Genocide Convention

"Bilingual education" is a federal program originally designed to "mainstream" non-English-speaking children, but which has become principally a device to perpetuate the federal bureaucracy. Studies done by Dr. George Roche, chairman of the National … [Read more...] about Bilingual Education Doesn’t Help School Children

Prior to the time when Jimmy Carter chose his Veep in 1976, Walter Mondale was known outside of his own state of Minnesota principally as the author of the Mondale-Brademas Child and Family Services Bill of 1975. This bill would have created a new … [Read more...] about The Mondale Ferraro Plan for Federally-Raised Children

Geraldine Ferraro may not be smart about understanding her husband's finances, but she certainly has been clever about harnessing the news media to shift the focus of national debate. Instead of talking about her own actions, she has used the media … [Read more...] about Is Ferraro Being Blamed for Zuccaro’s Actions?

Are the schools in your area pro-parent or anti-parent? Anyone with a child attending school should take time to evaluate the school and its curriculum in order to find out the answer to that question. The reason it is necessary to ask such a … [Read more...] about How Schools Alienate Children From Parents

The credibility of the media in covering Geraldine Ferraro is one of the most interesting issues in the 1984 presidential campaign. For a couple of weeks after her nomination in San Francisco, she received massive, laudatory, uncritical coverage. … [Read more...] about Ferraro and the News Media

Sometimes a party platform is mere rhetoric, swept under the rug and forgotten after the convention is over. Other times, the party platform can be a powerful political tool to motivate volunteers and to elect candidates to office. The Democratic … [Read more...] about Platform Comparisons

The principal problem with Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro to be his running mate is that she had never run for President. She was an Affirmative Action Veep selection; that is, she was chosen to satisfy an artificial gender quota … [Read more...] about An Affirmative Action Veep

In a typical half hour in the United States, one person is murdered, nine women are raped, 76 people are robbed, 284 are assaulted, and 380 homes are burglarized. Congress has been working for years on criminal justice reform, and now the Reagan … [Read more...] about Reagan Crime Control Act

"Mastery learning" is a term which has become dear to the hearts of educators in the last couple of years. With this system, pupils must thoroughly "master" one task or subject before proceeding to another. However, the typed transcripts from the … [Read more...] about The Sad State of Spelling