Probably everyone has had the experience of speaking words spontaneously and unexpectedly that can never be recalled. Sometimes they are a truth that was better left unsaid; sometimes they are an unfortunate choice of words that were misunderstood. … [Read more...] about Get the U.N. Out of the U.S.

One would have to be blind and deaf not to notice the acceleration of media attacks on General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Easy access to network newscasts is given to anyone in any part of the world who demands or predicts Pinochet's overthrow or … [Read more...] about Why the Liberals Hate Pinochet

"I care not who writes my country's laws so long as I can write its songs," says a centuries-old aphorism. The modern version would be, "I care not who writes my country's laws or who is elected its officials, so long as I can write its television … [Read more...] about ABC Film: “The Day After”

Armando Valladares is a very brave man. He survived 22 years in Castro's prisons, and he is now telling the world what it was like. It's very similar to Solzhenitsyn's descriptions of the Soviet Gulag, only Cuba is a lot closer to America. A … [Read more...] about A Voice From Castro’s Prisons

The missile that tragically shot down Korean Air Lines #007 also mercifully terminated the embarrassment of much of the media over the way they had been "Honeggerized." That's the new word for how a nobody can get tremendous access to the national … [Read more...] about How the Media Were Honeggerized

The "China card" is a favorite liberal expression to indicate that the U.S. President is somehow playing a trump card by being gracious to Red China at the expense of Taiwan. The China card metaphor has always been more perception than substance and, … [Read more...] about China’s Hong Kong Card

Anti-Reagan media reporting about the Grove City College case, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, is a good example of how news is manufactured in order to feed the media myth called the "gender gap." The real problem is an information gap. A … [Read more...] about Unfair Attacks on Reagan

As Congress in late summer rushed through an appropriation of $8.4 billion to the International Monetary Fund in order to bail the big U.S. banks out of their bad foreign loans, the New York Times published a full page of questions and answers called … [Read more...] about Explaining the Big Bank Bailout

What do former liberal presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, conservative activist Terry Dolan, millionaire liberal Stewart Mott, and conservative Senator Steven Symms have in common? They oppose a bill sponsored by 101 liberal Congressmen which … [Read more...] about Why Liberals Want to Abolish PACs

As part of the growing national debate on education, the New York Times recently presented a chart showing a comparison of "who learns what when." The chart showed at which grades American and Japanese students are usually taught particular … [Read more...] about Schools Compared With 40 Years Ago