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

The anti-Reagan media and the Congressional liberals would have us believe that there is something evil, new and un-American about covert activity in Nicaragua. On the contrary, if you have read Solzhenitsyn, you would know that it is always a social … [Read more...] about Covert Activity in Central America

Let's take a true-false quiz about the claims made by the advocates of a nuclear freeze. "Nuclear freeze will prevent war." False; 6,000 years of recorded history prove that peace/freeze movements promote war, NOT prevent war. The peace/disarmament … [Read more...] about True-False Quiz About Freezeniks’ Claims

When we celebrate the Bicentennial of the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, Americans should recite in unison: Blessed are the peacemakers who understand that in peace, as in war, "there is no substitute for victory." This most … [Read more...] about The Treaty of Paris

President Reagan's talk about education doesn't score points with the "Me" or the "Self" generation who care only about their own fulfillment. But it does show he is sensitive to the concerns of those who care about their children and the future of … [Read more...] about How Parents can Evaluate Textbooks

Hardly anybody wants to come right out and say what is the real issue in Central America. Contrary to the thrust of the questions at President Reagan's press conference, the real issue is not human rights, democracy or elections; it's not a phony … [Read more...] about The Stakes in Central America

The Children's Crusade has become history's most famous example of naivete in using children to confront an enemy. The powers-that-be of Thirteenth Century France and Germany sent thousands of their own sons and daughters—most of them about 12 years … [Read more...] about Children’s Crusade Against Nuclear War

The question asked with increasing frequency is, "Do you know what GAY means?" The answer is, "Got AIDS Yet?" That's just one of the remarks currently making the conversational rounds as the panic about AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) … [Read more...] about The Political-Legal Problems of AIDS