When are the American people going to wake up to two faraway facts which nevertheless impact ferociously on our national security? (1) Africa is a prize of tremendous power and wealth because it is a storehouse of essential strategic minerals, and … [Read more...] about The Battle for Africa

Even though it's been obvious ever since the Korean War that the United Nations is incapable of keeping world peace, the popular justification for its cost is that the UN does a great many other useful things. Dr. Murray L. Weidenbaum, former … [Read more...] about UN a Global Nanny

Wouldn't you think that the U.S. Government has enough to do that it wouldn't have time to swoop down on a couple of dozen women in Ripon, Wisconsin (the birthplace of the Republican Party) and charge that they are violating the law (oh, the horror … [Read more...] about The Right to Work at Home

It is difficult to suppress a yawn, a "ho hum," and a weary sense of déjà vu, in reading the slick-paper report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. It was a media event for a day; it has given columnists something to write about, … [Read more...] about One More Report Card on the Schools’ Failure

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