Do you believe a married couple should pay the same federal income tax rate regardless of whether the income is earned by the husband or wife or both? Married couples do pay the same tax rates now, and have paid the same rates for decades. While … [Read more...] about What’s Behind the “Marriage Tax”

New evidence keeps surfacing all the time to confirm the authenticity of the Shroud in which the body of Jesus was wrapped. It has been kept in the cathedral at Turin, Italy since 1578. It was the practice in burials at the time of Christ to place a … [Read more...] about New Evidence on the Holy Shroud

Child custody has become the orphan of the changing attitudes toward marriage, family, sex roles, and sex morals. In the "Me Generation," when each individual seeks his or her own self-fulfillment in a personal and selfish way, when divorce is easy, … [Read more...] about Problems of Child Custody

The recent resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin "on health grounds" was heralded by the press as the most significant leadership change since Brezhnev and Kosygin came to power in October 1964 after Nikita Khrushchev was ousted as Soviet … [Read more...] about Kosygin’s Resignation

Ever since the November 4 election, the pollsters and the pundits have been trying to explain away their failure to predict or anticipate the landslide victory that washed Reagan and the Republican Senate into office. The chief reason why the … [Read more...] about The Pro-Family Factor in the Election

"Get America back to work again" is one of the Reagan promises which should receive priority attention from the new Congress convening in January. And the agenda to achieve that goal should start with a reduction in federal income taxes. The … [Read more...] about How Taxes Hurt Capital Formation

Should Illinois abandon its unique system of electing its State House of Representatives, which has served well for 110 years? That was one of the many issues decided by the election of November 4, and the voters answered yes. Most states are … [Read more...] about The End of Proportional Representation

It is reassuring to note that the new style "spoils system" -- the use of the vast powers of incumbency to assure reelection -- could not reelect Jimmy Carter to a second term. Carter was probably more skilled than any other President in history in … [Read more...] about New Style Spoils System