The resignation of White House drug abuse adviser Peter G. Bourne over charges that he personally abused drugs deserves to tie with Presidential assistant Hamilton Jordan's reported expectoration at a woman in a bar several months ago as the year's … [Read more...] about Drug Abuse in Washington

With its continuing faith in the power of government to supersede economic forces, the Carter Administration sponsored a bill to force hospitals to cut costs by threatening them with federal controls. The House Commerce Committee, apparently … [Read more...] about Cutting Hospital Costs

Only a few months ago, the Carter Administration urged the Senate to give away the U.S. Canal Zone in Panama because, it was alleged, the Canal cannot be defended at reasonable cost against attack by Panamanians. The spectre of another Vietnam was … [Read more...] about Can We Defend West Berlin?

When Congress recesses for campaigning this year, among the bills that will be left in the circular file are the gun control bills. Letters from the American people run 18-to-1 against such legislation and the issue is too hot to touch in an election … [Read more...] about Gun Control Legislation

The failure of more than a million persons to pay back nearly $1 billion in college student loans is a national disgrace rivaled only by the failure of federal agencies to collect. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare even found 317 … [Read more...] about Bureaucratic Misplaced Efforts

Do we really have majority rule in the United States? Our annual extravagant foreign giveaway appropriations are about as popular as the Congressional pay raise. Neither would ever be approved by the voters. But like 01' Man River, they just keep … [Read more...] about Do We Have Majority Rule?

The Supreme Court's decision to let stand the affirmative action program adopted in 1973 by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company is likely to have far greater impact than the waffling decision on the much heralded Bakke case. In effect, the … [Read more...] about Bakke and AT&T Cases

President Carter's decision not to build the neutron weapon is another victory for Brezhnev and another insult to our allies who had counted on it. Carter has severely handicapped NATO in its current negotiations with Russia over troop parity between … [Read more...] about The Neutron Weapon

Captive Nations Week is observed each year during the third week of July as a result of Public Law 86-90, passed in 1959 and signed by President Eisenhower. This law directs our President to proclaim Captive Nations Week "each year until such time as … [Read more...] about Captive Nations Week

As America sags under the double burden of inflation and unemployment, economic doomsayers can find a much cheerier business picture in the anti-Communist countries in the Far East. Unlike Red China, which remains poverty-stricken after 30 years of … [Read more...] about Far Eastern Businessmen