Sometimes radical changes in the tax law coast through Congress with little or no reaction or opposition from those affected. Then, when the tax collector starts knocking at the door, an explosion erupts. That happened with the law to withhold tax … [Read more...] about Did Congress Really Mean to Tax Churches?

Those who deplore the steady migration of children from public schools into private and religious schools are striking back. They are resorting to a variety of strategies to circumvent what has been established law in the United States since 1925, … [Read more...] about Regulation of Non-Public Schools

Some seek the meaning of Christmas in the Christ Child, some from their own children gathered around the hearth, and millions, apparently, from a Cabbage Patch Doll. As dolls go, the Cabbage Patch Doll is not pretty. It has no silken hair, no … [Read more...] about Christmas, Children, and Cabbage Patch Dolls

There’s an old saying that, if you lend a man some money, you make an enemy for yourself, not a friend. Instead of being glad to see you, he will cross the street to avoid meeting you lest you ask him when the loan will be repaid. Nothing in all … [Read more...] about Brazil and the Folly of Bad Loans

The definition of words makes a tremendous difference in how things are perceived, understood, and litigated. A rose by any other name may indeed smell as sweet, but giving pornography another name may produce very different legal … [Read more...] about New Approach to Pornography

It is amazing how changes of vast magnitude can take place in our American social society with hardly any reportage by the media or discussion by commentators or public officials until after the change is a fait accompli. Among the changes of truly … [Read more...] about The Black Family

It would be nice if we lived in an age when reason and rational discourse guided political discourse. Since we seem to live in a time when demonstrations and media events rank highest in the pecking order of power (when you want something, you take … [Read more...] about Lady Olga Wages War Against the Peaceniks

After the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, savage criticism was leveled at those who had supported or voted for scrap iron shipments to Japan, which allegedly had been turned into weapons of war. The Pearl anniversary is a good time to … [Read more...] about Pearl Harbor Lesson

An "400-pound gorilla"™ (to use a current political cliché) is waiting in the shadows of the federal bureaucracy which could devour almost any political candidate in the 1984 elections. The "gorilla" is the proposed F.C.C. regulation which would … [Read more...] about The Fairness Doctrine

A new book called "American Couples" is a gold mine of research to support very traditional attitudes about sex, marriage, and family. The book was certainly not written from a moralistic, traditional, or conservative perspective; that is obvious … [Read more...] about American Couples