Would a Con Con Become a Runaway Convention?
If two more state legislatures pass resolutions asking Congress to call a Constitutional Convention (Con Con) to consider a Balanced Budget Amendment, Congress will be obliged to issue…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
What Happened to the Democratic Party?
The question now most frequently asked by local Democrats is, “When there are so many fine people in the Democratic Party, how could we allow ourselves to be…
How Schools Fill Children With Fear and Guilt
All about us, we hear that children are depressed, afraid of the future, having nightmares, worrying about adult problems, and in fear that they won’t grow up. Teenage…
How Rumania Steals U.S Technology
One of the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence officials ever to defect to the West, Ion Mihai Pacepa, recently revealed some of his first-hand knowledge about the strange world…
The Feminization of Poverty
We have heard a great deal of comment in the last couple of years about a phenomenon called “the feminization of poverty,” which means that more of the…
Catholic Thought About Capitalism
A committee of prominent Catholics has published a learned and eloquent “Letter” on the American economic system of private enterprise capitalism. In so doing, this committee has upstaged…
The Spirit of Enterprise
I thought of George Gilder this week when I was doing some research on a new U.S. constitution written a few years ago by the Center for the…
Thanksgiving Thanks
Although the United States celebrated its 208th birthday last July 4th, and will celebrate the Bicentennial of the Constitution in 1989, this year’s observance of Thanksgiving Day will…
UNESCO Doesn’t Deserve U.S. for a Member
UNESCO is run by Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, a Marxist from Senegal, Africa, who is its Director General. Twenty senior staffers have left UNESCO since 1980 when M’Bow was…
Calls for a Constitutional Convention
Thirty-two states have passed resolutions requesting Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of submitting a constitutional amendment on a balanced budget. Article V of the…