Several months ago, I received a letter from Bob Hope asking me to contribute to build a memorial to pay tribute to all the veterans who served in the Vietnam War. I knew it was a form letter which went to millions of other people, but I read it … [Read more...] about The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

One of the legacies of the Carter Administration was the sharp upward curve showing the percentage of women in the U.S. Armed Services. In 1972 the percentage was 1.5%; in 1980 it was 8.5%; the 1986 projection is 12.5%. The Reagan Administration … [Read more...] about The Military Pauses to Evaluate Women

Frances and Earl Frederick of Louisville, Kentucky, have provided a dramatic example of what parents can do to stop the sex stimulation courses that are invading classrooms across the country. They hired a lawyer, filed suit, and successfully … [Read more...] about Lawsuit Stops Mandatory Sex Education

The best thing that could come out of last month's White House Conference on the Aging is a hope that it will be the last "White House Conference" for any Special Interest Group. The real purpose of such conferences is for federal employees and … [Read more...] about White House Conferences

Three years ago, I wrote a column deploring the dreary sameness of the diet of so many Americans, especially of those in the fast-food generation. The column expressed bewilderment that, although our supermarkets offer a daily dazzling display of … [Read more...] about New Fashions in Food

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world," proclaimed Benjamin Disraeli in 1865 on the occasion of the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. Whether his statement was fatuous or disingenuous (England backed the South during the Civil … [Read more...] about Assassinations and Their Influence

The Christmas season is a good time to recall that two remarkable pictures on opposite sides of the world reaffirm the reality of the supernatural. Teams of scientists have examined and investigated them, but they can find no natural explanation for … [Read more...] about Two Miraculous Pictures

The Gospel of St. John quotes Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, as saying after the crucifixion: "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the néils, and éut my finger into the place of the nails; and put my hand into his side, I will not … [Read more...] about New Evidence on the Holy Shroud

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has secretly put into effect a policy of encouraging abortions and of allowing the cadets who have them to remain in good standing. The policy induces abortions rather than 1live births for cadets who have … [Read more...] about Encouraging Abortions at West Point

When President Ronald Reagan, in discussing the alleged differences between the legislative priorities of the social conservatives and the economic conservatives, said that "we have only one agenda," he was widely reported to be giving lip service to … [Read more...] about Social and Economic Conservatives Join Hands for Judicial Reform