What Time magazine did for Herpes last year, Newsweek recently did for AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome): a cover-story expose brought an incurable disease out of the closet and made it front-page news. Now the homosexuals, the largest group … [Read more...] about What Homosexuals and Lesbians Want

The U.S. Catholic Bishops have been passing resolutions for years without media coverage. But because the liberals and pacifists saw a way to use the Bishops to help promote a Nuclear Freeze, reporters converged on Chicago to make the recent Bishops' … [Read more...] about Catholic Bishops Plunge Into Politics

Australia is currently debating ratification of the "UN Convention (Treaty) on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women." It has been ratified by 15 Communist countries, but not by the United States or Western European … [Read more...] about UN Treaty About Women

The first time I saw the figure, I thought it was a newspaper's typographical error. The second time I saw it, I thought it was a wild exaggeration of sensational journalism. But the figure is now so widely quoted and used in authoritative articles … [Read more...] about The Shame of Illiteracy

When Ronald Reagan announces even minimal cuts in federal funds for education, a chorus of anguished, orchestrated yelps go up on cue from the media and academia. We are given tear-jerking rhetoric about worthy students who will be forced to abandon … [Read more...] about In the Name of “Women Courses”

The bombing in Beirut should remind us that we face a third dimension in warfare in addition to strategic (nuclear) and conventional (non-nuclear). Usually called unconventional warfare, General John K. Singlaub also calls it the "low … [Read more...] about The Low Fronteir of Unconventional Warfare

Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR) held a hearing recently on his bill S. 372 to "unisex" insurance. (Unisex seems to have become a verb.) He courteously received a dozen speakers in favor of his bill and sarcastically attempted to put down the lone speaker … [Read more...] about Costs and Chicanery in Unisexing Insurance

The rhetoric of the freezeniks appears to be based on six fatal fallacies. 1) "The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are equal threats to peace because they both have an overkill capability in nuclear weapons." But this notion of equal guilt is essentially … [Read more...] about Fatal Fallacies of the Freezeniks

In fairness to the banks, they didn't create the discrimination against homemakers. But their full-page and half-page ads running in newspapers all over the country, plus frequent radio spots, during the last three months have certainly rubbed it … [Read more...] about Discrimination Against “Non-Working” Wives

The Atlanta airport is a rather overwhelming place if your point of origin or termination is Atlanta; but it is well-designed to enable travelers to change planes efficiently in order to reach other destinations. It is fitting that the Congressman … [Read more...] about The Conservative Opportunity Society