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

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