The Myth of a “Destabilizing” Defense
“The best offense is a good defense” would be a better slogan in the nuclear age than the version that is customarily heard in sports and war. In…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
It took parents more than a decade after the Supreme Court expelled prayer and Bible reading from the public schools to discover that the intellectual and moral vacuum…
The Strange Career of Paul Nitze
“How is it that an American arms control negotiator can take a talk in the woods near Geneva with his Soviet counterpart, work out an understanding that violates…
Raising the Drinking Age
More than 58,000 American servicemen were killed in the Vietnam War, and another 155,000 are listed as casualties. But many of the 250,000 who have been “slain” by…
Who Reports the News First?
CBS’s Dan Rather, the Washington Post, and the New York Times have recently discovered Raoul Wallenberg. Until a few months ago, he had zero name ID with the…
The Legislative and Judicial War Against Wives
A drama is currently being played out in the New Jersey Legislature which parallels similar dramas in other state legislatures over the last several years. These controversies reflect…
George Washington’s Advice
The man who is known to all Americans as “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen” gave us much sound advice…
Capital Gains Rollover
Federal tax statutes are not merely a means of raising government revenue. Their built-in incentives and disincentives provide powerful inducements — even coercions — to motivate/compel Americans to…
School Prayer is Constitutional After All
In a sensational decision, a U.S. District Court has held that prayers offered by teachers in public schools are NOT unconstitutional. This scholarly 66-page decision in Jaffree v.…
Women in Army Combat(?) Jobs
“We are becoming the men we once wanted to marry,” proclaimed feminist theorist Robin Morgan on the Phil Donahue Show in January. Neither Donahue nor any of the…