Punishing Ourselves at the U.N.
Sadomasochism is beyond the comprehension of most people. How could anyone get pleasure out of voluntarily submitting to mistreatment or abuse, or being chained and whipped for the…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Tax Exemptions and Federal Subsidies
The oft-told story about the advice the old lawyer gave the young lawyer, “When you are weak on the law, argue the facts; when you are weak on…
Tax Exemptions For Children
In 1950, I had my first child, a bouncing baby boy whom we named John. In addition to all the love and sunshine he brought into our home,…
The Cuban Missile Crisis
George Orwell’s “1984” describes how, in the advanced Communist society, history is rewritten in a new language called Newspeak, and those pieces of history which the ruling clique…
Hope and Despair
When the American POWs coming home after the Korean War were debriefed by the Army, the doctors discovered that some GIs had become victims of a strange new…
Hope and Despair
When the American POWs coming home after the Korean War were debriefed by the Army, the doctors discovered that some Gls had become victims of a strange new…
Automobiles and Tobacco: The U.S. and Japan
The trouble with many politicians is that they don’t understand business, and the trouble with many businessmen is that they don’t understand politics. Businessmen tend to believe that…
Women’s Studies Courses at Universities
The ACLU certainly does get involved in interesting cases. Its latest is a suit in a California court designed to assure that “Women’s Studies” courses at state universities…
Time to Renounce the ABM Treaty
The SALT I Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, signed in 1972, comes up for its second five-year review this month. It is time to renounce the treaty according to the…
Censorship
Ever since the specter of “McCarthyism” faded into history, the liberals have been searching for a new boogeyman to frighten people into contributing generously to left-wing causes. Since…