The U.S. Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence is about to start hearings around the country to see if we can identify causes and remedies for this difficult problem. Already bills have been proposed in Congress by those who think that … [Read more...] about Domestic Violence Against Women

Although the "emperor who wore no clothes" is an overworked metaphor to describe a false establishment consensus which no one but a child has the temerity to puncture, it certainly is appropriate when it comes to "arms control." That shibboleth is … [Read more...] about Arms Control Without Compliance

UNESCO GOT WHAT IT HAS LONG DESERVED When President Reagan notified UNESCO that the United States will withdraw at the end of this year, it proved that our representative government can finally catch up with grassroots opinion. There is nothing … [Read more...] about Unesco Got What It Has Long Deserved

UNESCO GOT WHAT IT HAS LONG DESERVED When President Reagan notified UNESCO that the United States will withdraw at the end of this year, it proved that our representative government can finally catch up with grassroots opinion. There is nothing … [Read more...] about Unesco Got What It Has Long Deserved

"Equal Pay for Comparable Worth" has become a new slogan echoing through state legislative debates, Congressional hearings, Federal courts, television talk shows, TV and newspaper advertisements, and politicians' position papers. Since the American … [Read more...] about Equal Pay for Comparable Worth

Some people have very strange ideas of what should be punished as a crime. While all sorts of people who commit horrible offenses go unapprehended and unpunished, in some states parents are arrested and even jailed for the alleged crime of either … [Read more...] about Victory for Home Schooling

Although laws against pornography have been singularly ineffective since the late 1960s, our nation may be recouping both its will and its ability to deal with this criminal deviation, at least when it impacts on children. The Child Protection Act of … [Read more...] about Child Pornography

Few issues show the difference between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale so dramatically as education. Mondale wants to tax everybody an additional $11 billion so that the Federal Government can spend more on schools, whereas Reagan wants tax relief … [Read more...] about Tuition Tax Credits

Since Speaker Tip O'Neill buried immigration reform legislation last year (by simply taking it off the House calendar), the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is seeking a 50% increase in the number of Border Patrol officers along the … [Read more...] about Immigration Reform?

This column has repeatedly complained that today's children can't read, write, spell, add, subtract, and do other elementary basic skills as well as children of a generation ago. We've discussed the inadequacies of the schools and the textbooks. All … [Read more...] about Why Teachers Can’t Teach