Abortion and Holocaust Parrellels
The appointment of Bishop John J. O’Connor to the “first among equals” post of Catholic Archbishop of New York has sent a powerful message through the Roman Catholic…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Will Education Dept Hearings be Published?
Will the Department of Education publish — or censor — the record of the seven days of hearings it recently completed across the country on regulations for the…
Questions Raised by the Medal for Whittaker Chambers
The orchestrated antagonism of the media against President Ronald Reagan for awarding the Medal of Freedom posthumously to Whittaker Chambers is a fascinating example of a Pavlovian-style conditioned…
Unisex Insurance Suffers Fatal Blow
When Congressmen had to choose between voting for a mandate for total gender equality in insurance (the Unisex Insurance bill) and voting for an amendment to allow lower…
WHAT IS PAY EQUITY?
Hearings were held recently by the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee on a bill “to promote pay equity” (H.R. 4599). “Equity” means justice, but what is…
EDUCATION DEPT HEARINGS ON PUPIL RIGHTS
The U.S. Department of Education recently concluded a series of seven hearings on proposed regulations for the Protection of Pupil Rights Act. It is a mystery why no…
TRUTH IN MONEY
Who creates our U.S. money — and what controls its value? That question is rarely asked; if it is asked, there are few coherent answers and certainly no…
THE SAD STATE OF SPELLING
A Nation at Risk, the title of the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, was the subject of a debate in which I participated in…
DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR DEBTORS
The saddest stories in daily newspapers in recent weeks have been about the foreclosures and forced sales of family farms. The eyewitness news accounts of the auctions, during…
THE PEOPLE PROTECTION ACT
The People Protection Act is a brilliant use of contemporary semantics. Who could be against protecting people? The ABC film “The Day After” certainly dramatized the fact that…