Education Secretary Terrel Bell is moving valiantly to cut out some of the federal regulations which are excessive, over-reaching, redundant, conflicting, or all of the above. In so doing, he is simply trying to fulfill the Reagan mandate by reducing … [Read more...] about Unraveling Title IX Regulations

Political pundits have speculated for years about why the United States has such a low percentage of voter turnout in national elections. I think one of the major reasons is that the voters intuitively recognize that, somehow, the November election … [Read more...] about New Truths About Old Elections

Eric Brodin, a Swedish economist who left his native country to become a professor at a U.S. university, is the answer to the Childs-spun mythology about Sweden which has deceived Americans ever since journalist Marquis Childs traveled there in 1936. … [Read more...] about The Moral Corruption of Welfare Statism

One of the biggest mysteries in the politics of national defense in recent years has been the peculiar push to assign women to serve in military combat. It is very difficult to find anyone who favors it; no country in the world does it; nothing in … [Read more...] about Who Promoted Sending Women Into Military Combat?

A case now before the Supreme Court called Widmar v. Vincent is a good example of how the lower federal courts have become more extreme even than the U.S. Supreme Court in their determination to eliminate all vestiges of religion wherever they can. … [Read more...] about Religion on College Campuses

With the regularity of leap year, every four years we hear noises from intellectuals and academicians about abolishing the Electoral College. We are told that it is "obsolete," an "anachronism," and in need of "reform." The only way it could be … [Read more...] about Electoral College Reform?

A few years ago, we heard a lot of talk from the Watergate reporters about the danger to democracy from "the Imperial Presidency." After many months of hammering by the media, all threats from that source were thoroughly eliminated. We don't hear … [Read more...] about Limiting the Imperial Judiciary

A serviceman's ex-wife cannot be awarded up to half of his military retirement pay by a state divorce court. That's what the Supreme Court ruled in McCarty v. McCarty when it preempted California's domestic relations statute by extending the reach of … [Read more...] about The Servicemen’s Pension Case

The nomination of Sandra 0'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court provides a perfect opportunity to arouse the nation to restore a proper balance of powers among the three branches of our federal government. Over the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has … [Read more...] about End Life Tenure for Federal Judges

The Reagan Administration's plan to cut back on federal loans to college students from middle-income families has brought renewed interest in the drive for tuition tax credits. One such bill nearly passed Congress in 1978, and the Packwood-Moynihan … [Read more...] about Tuition Tax Credits