If there ever was a man entitled to say "I told you so," it is Rudolf Flesch, author of a best-selling book 25 years ago called "Why Johnny Can't Read," which presented a depressing picture of the faulty methods used to teach reading in most schools. … [Read more...] about Phony-Phonics Versus Phonics-First

It's bad enough when American taxpayers are forced to finance the export of jobs to Western nations, but it is incredible that we should be forced to finance the export of jobs to the Soviet Union. Yet the State-Commerce Department policy of detente … [Read more...] about Trading Jobs With the Russians

The Carter Administration's plan to fight inflation is to raise taxes and interest rates, increase unemployment, reduce production, and accept a lower standard of living. As explained by Barry Bosworth, former head of the Council on Wage and Price … [Read more...] about The Wrong and Right Way to Fight Inflation

"The Pledge of Allegiance shall be recited each school day by pupils in elementary educational institutions supported or maintained in whole or in part by public funds." So reads the text of an Illinois law recently enacted by the Legislature. In … [Read more...] about The Pledge to the Flag

How would you judge the humanity or the integrity of government leaders who provide for their own protection against enemy attack, but leave their people like sitting ducks, totally defenseless against enemy aggression and weapons? Yet that is … [Read more...] about The Kansas City Proclamation

The Sagebrush Rebellion is sweeping across the West and may grow into the poli- tical tidal wave of the early 1980s as powerful as Proposition 13 in the late 1970s. Behind both is a deep-seated resentment against the Federal Government's gathering … [Read more...] about The Sagebrush Rebellion

I wonder how many Americans were watching when the NBC TV Theater presented its ‘docudrama about the barbaric treatment of U.S. prisoners of war by the North Vietnamese. "When Hell Was In Session" was the true story of the American aviators captured … [Read more...] about Patriots Betrayed by Bureaucrats

The field of contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination is already more crowded than it has been in recent memory, but there is no limit on entrants. Another non-candidate, Gerald Ford, is making noises as if he would like to join the … [Read more...] about Republican Cannibalistic Tactics

As interest rates climb higher and the price of gold fluctuates wildly, some 6,000 of the world's leading bankers, financiers, and interested observers gathered for an October conference in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. They came to the first annual meeting … [Read more...] about World Bankers and Their Loans