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

"Academic freedom" is a favorite slogan of the liberal intellectuals. We've been told for several decades that professors and lecturers in universities must have the freedom to express themselves no matter how non-conformist, radical, or … [Read more...] about Academic Freedom and Anthropology

Future historians of social trends, morals and mores may well record that August 2, 1982 marked the day the sexual revolution of the 1970s died. That was the day when Time magazine ran its sensational cover story on "Herpes: Today's Scarlet … [Read more...] about Is Sex Dead?

Andropov doesn't like President Reagan's new plans to build a defensive anti-missile system to protect the United States. Neither does Ted Kennedy or Mark Hatfield or a bunch of liberal scientists. But unless they come up with some better arguments … [Read more...] about Regan’s Star Wars Proposal

Two bills are now "cooking" in Congress which would have a costly adverse effect on women, but which are deceptively packaged in the wrapper of "women's rights." They would cause dramatic rate increases in automobile accident insurance and in life … [Read more...] about The Unisex Insurance Uproar

Adults who resist fashions in social experimentation demanded by the avant-garde liberals have a way of shoving those styles on little children who can't fight back. Thus, adults acquiesced in allowing their children to be forcibly bused across town … [Read more...] about The Failure of Coed Sports

It's now pretty clear why President Reagan is finding it so difficult to cut the federal budget. The special interests which profit from big federal spending are lobbying hard and effectively to keep spending high, and they are using our tax dollars … [Read more...] about Tax-Funded Lobbying