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

Suicide is the second highest cause of death among teenagers. Whenever there is a rash of suicides, schools and psychiatrists initiate studies to search for explanations of this unprecedented phenomenon. They ought to look directly at the classroom … [Read more...] about Classroom Curricula Promote Suicide and Murder

A major eastern university recently tried to schedule me for a debate on "Is America Ready for a Woman Vice President?" I declined because that question makes as little sense as "Is America ready for a candidate from Minnesota?" The issue is not "a … [Read more...] about A Women on the National

Since Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell got front-page publicity with his slashing attack on textbook publishers, accusing them of "dumbing down" their books to accommodate pupils at the bottom of the class, many parents have been taking a look … [Read more...] about Dumbing of Textbooks–Or Numbing of Standards?

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has just dealt what is described by the Bureau of National Affairs as "a major blow to supporters of the Comparable Worth concept." This decision warned that acceptance of this untried theory "would … [Read more...] about “Comparable Worth” Loses Appeal

Did you think that "homework" is a word that means lessons which children carry home and do in after-school hours? That kind of homework seems to have gone out of style in the last decade. Today, the word "homework" is more apt to mean something very … [Read more...] about Women Working at Home

An amazing group of prominent and powerful persons is waiting in the wings to bring about a radical restructuring of our American Constitution. Just to call the roll of the big names is enough to reveal what enormous power in business, finance, the … [Read more...] about Plans to Rewrite the U.S Constitution