New Evidence on Marijuana
The “trivialization of marijuana” is one of the major problems in curbing drug abuse, according to a panel of five experts who held a news conference recently in…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Hearings on Women in Combat
In the midst of the Iranian crisis, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel held four days of hearings on the proposal to repeal the existing laws…
Power Counts, Not “World Opinion”
The real explanation for why the great United States had to endure weeks of unprecedented national humiliation and mistreatment of our citizens at the embassy in Teheran was…
Free Federal Bucks
What do the letters FFB mean to you? Officially, they stand for Federal Financing Bank, but colloquially they stand for Free Federal Bucks. FFB is an obscure, off-budget…
The International Human Rights Treaties
Four international human rights treaties have been signed and sent to the Senate for ratification by President Carter, and hearings have already been held. They could be reported…
Holding Judges Accountable
We are used to report cards on students and sometimes on teachers, to voting record tallies on Congressmen to publicized platforms of important candidates and political parties, but…
Social Security: Policies and Proposals
One of the outstanding features of the Social Security system for the last 40 years is that it has never reneged on paying benefits to any class of…
Secretary Brown’s Admission
When Defense Secretary Harold Brown submits to questioning by reporters or Congressmen, he speaks so slowly and deliberately that it almost seems he is hoping that his interrogators…
Phony-Phonics Versus Phonics-First
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…
Trading Jobs With the Russians
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…