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

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