Will Ronald Reagan become another Margaret Thatcher? Prime Minister Thatcher won a splendid conservative victory two years ago. But after her election, she became timid and failed to cut taxes as she promised. (A small tax cut was offset by another … [Read more...] about TAX CUTS NOW ARE ESSENTIAL

If Dave Stockman is looking for more places to cut the federal budget, one of the best places to start would be the Legal Services Corporation. Most Americans have never even heard of it, but they are paying dearly for it. The Legal Services … [Read more...] about TAX FUNDING OF LEGAL SERVICES

"What's in a name?" Shakespeare asked. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But would it? American businesses spend millions of dollars to research and choose (or invent) a name before marketing a product. Publishers … [Read more...] about THE PRODUCTIVITY STATE

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff David Jones has been hustling up to Capitol Hill telling Senators and Representatives how weak our military defenses are, and how we need immediate programs to remedy our critical deficiencies. "In most … [Read more...] about HOW REAGAN CAN REBUILD U.S. DEFENSES

In many legislatures this spring, a controversy is raging over whether "scientific creationism" should be taught in the public schools as an alternate theory to evolution. The liberals who used to demand "academic freedom" to teach unpopular views … [Read more...] about WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM?

In the final hours of the Carter Administration, the Justice Department filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to reverse a lower federal court's ruling which had invented a new constitutional right no one had ever heard of before, … [Read more...] about THE GOVERNMENT’S BRIEF ON DRAFTING WOMEN

It looks like the Nielsen ratings won't be the only television ratings during March, April and May. Thousands of citizens will be marking their rating sheets and forwarding them to the Coalition for Better TV (CBTV). The Nielsen ratings tell only … [Read more...] about CAN RATINGS PRODUCE BETTER TV?

How many skeletons will the Reagan Administration find in the closet as a new team opens cupboards and reads documents in the State and Defense Departments? Secretary Alexander Haig has already uncovered Dobrynin in one of the closets, and thereby … [Read more...] about SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET

Ronald Reagan's head of the Office of Management and Budget, Rep. Dave Stockman, faces the biggest and most immediate challenge of the new Administration. His goal is to reduce the Misery Index -- the inflation rate plus the unemployment rate plus … [Read more...] about Stockman’s Bold New Program

William Raspberry, the black columnist whose essays are always interesting and usually perceptive, has commented on the performance of Ben Vereen, the black who danced at the Frank Sinatra Gala the night before Ronald Reagan's Inauguration. The show … [Read more...] about The Need for Political Clearance