Carter’s Credibility
The American people have traditionally been very supportive of our Presidents conduct of foreign affairs. The President’s constitutional powers in this area have been broadly interpreted by the…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
OSHA
In most cases, the individual citizen doesn’t have much of a chance if he undertakes to do battle with a federal agency. One federal Goliath, however, is reeling…
Loss in Productivity
According to President Carter’s economic advisers, the productivity growth of the last few years has shrunk from three percent to almost nothing. In his annual economic report to…
Faulty U.S. Intelligence
Defense Secretary Harold Brown, in making the Pentagon’s Annual Posture Statement to Congress, testified that the Soviets have added 1,000 strategic nuclear warheads to their forces — twice…
Tax Law Confusion
The Tax Reform Act of 1976 is a good lesson in how the word “reform” is often a cover word for a change that produces more cost, complexity,…
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe’s two-and-a-half-hour match with John McEnroe in the finals for the Grand Prix Masters, a major tennis tournament involving eight of the world’s best singles players, was…
Compelling a Balanced Budget
No longer are the political innovators those who devise ways and means of spending more money and extending their control over our lives and fortunes. No longer are…
Taxpayer Financing of Elections
It would seem that a fundamental First Amendment right would be the right to contribute to any political candidate of your choice and, conversely, to refuse to contribute…
Businessmen’s Trade Fashions
One continuing debate in our family is over the question of whether men or women are more of a slave to fashion. Of course, I take the position…
Different Goals of SALT II
Paul Nitze chose an apt analogy when he compared the SALT II negotiations to the courtship between a rich bachelor and an acquisitive beauty — each aspiring to…