Is the primary purpose of the U.S. Armed Forces to defend the United States, or is it to engage in social experimentation? That sounds like a ridiculous question, but it was easy to get the impression under the Carter Administration that the answer … [Read more...] about Combat-Effectiveness Of Our Armed Forces

Whether the Legislative Veto is constitutional or not is a relatively simple question, despite the confusion caused by the bureaucracy and compounded by the federal courts. Since 1933, Congress hés progressively delegated more and more far-reaching … [Read more...] about The Legislative Veto

Should local schools be administered by elected school boards responsible to the communities they serve? Or should they be administered by teenage pupils and federal judges? That is the real issue in the Island Trees Union School case recently … [Read more...] about The Island Trees School Library Case

Teenage and young-adult unemployment is one of our nation's most critical problems today. In the large cities, thousands of young people, just out of high school, are Job-hunting without success. Although the national unemployment rate is about 9 … [Read more...] about Teenage Unemployment

The same liberals who wax indignant against any proposals to withdraw jurisdiction from the federal courts on abortion, busing, or prayer, and who indulged in the rhetoric of outrage at the recent Supreme Court decision which upheld President Richard … [Read more...] about Is “Legal Services” Above the Law?

The U.S. Senate session on the evening of May 21 was the thread from which legends are woven. Pending was the federal budget which had been endorsed by the Senate leadership and the Administration. During the preceding week, the sponsors of this … [Read more...] about The Politics of Principles and Pocketbooks

The bitterness of the battle between the British and the Argentinians over the Falklands has been matched by the behind-the-scenes word battle between our UN Ambassador and our Secretary of State over the American role in the conflict. Newsweek … [Read more...] about British Control of U.S. Foreign Policy?

Is it advantageous for children to have the benefit of two parents, or is one parent enough and the other only a physical necessity for the brief time it takes to get a new human life conceived and born? Conversely, is a child disadvantaged if he … [Read more...] about Motherhood Without Marriage

Leonid Brezhnev tried to upstage Ronald Reagan at the United Nations special disarmament session in New York, but fortunately, he didn't get by with it. It is so refreshing to have a U.S. President who is not deceived or intimidated by such tricks … [Read more...] about Truth and Rhetoric at the UN

For years I've been looking for an objective statement of the policies of the American Civil Liberties Union in order to prove that they are out of the mainstream of what the American people want. Now, at last, the ACLU has produced its own summary … [Read more...] about American Civil Liberties Union