Every President hopes that history will remember him favorably for some great or unique achievement of his regime, although few have such ambitious designs as Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase or Theodore Roosevelt's building of our Panama Canal. … [Read more...] about The Battle For Africa

The high standard of living that Americans enjoy is due not to superior intelligence, natural resources, or quantity of work, but to our unique system of political and economic freedom that encourages individuals to make use of their initiative, … [Read more...] about Deep Sea Mining Incentives

While the rigged trial of Yuri F. Orlov was making a farce of the Helsinki Agreement, elsewhere U.S. negotiators were blithely pursuing still another U.S.-USSR treaty. Yet there is no reason to think that the forthcoming SALT II Treaty will be … [Read more...] about Treaty Watchdog Committees

Social Security is the target of a tug-of-war that pits fiscal reality against practical politics. The unpleasant facts of life are that Social Security taxes are not sufficient to pay Social Security benefits, and the future prognosis is for the … [Read more...] about Social Security Problems

Inflation is picking the pockets of Americans at a galloping rate. Workers are earning more dollars but realizing less in real income. Inflation is forcing wives into the labor market and husbands to moonlight with a second job, just to make ends … [Read more...] about Indexing Income Taxes

Tax credits to help pay tuition of students in private elementary and secondary schools as well as colleges is an idea whose time has come. Its easy passage in the House, once the Congressmen were compelled to face up to the issue, showed that they … [Read more...] about Tuition Tax Credits

Flushed with its "victory" in putting over the surrender of the U.S. Canal to a small-time dictator, the Carter Administration is grinding up its team of lobbyists and propagandists to put over another treaty-surrender to a big-time dictator. The … [Read more...] about Salt II “Equality”?

Dr. Peter G. Bourne, the President's Assistant for Health Issues, was recently asked how the Carter Administration plans to put National Health Insurance over on the American people knowing it will push Federal payroll taxes even higher than they are … [Read more...] about Carter Health Insurance

Every one of our 50 states has two Senators and one to 43 Representatives in the U.S. Congress. Now comes Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) promoting a constitutional amendment to enlarge the Congress by adding two Senators and one or two … [Read more...] about District of Columbia Representation

Is there no limit to the insults that foreign dictators can get by with hurling at Americans? Within hours after the U.S. Senate ratified the Panama Treaty giving our Canal to dictator Torrijos, he arrogantly boasted that, if the vote had gone the … [Read more...] about Dictator’s Insults