John Maynard Keynes is a perfect illustration of the truth of his own words when he said: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the … [Read more...] about The Santa Claus State

Three outstanding black athletic stars strengthen our chances for winning the 1980 track and field Olympics in Moscow. The newest and youngest is Franklin Jacobs, still only 17, who recently set a world indoor record for the high jump. High jumpers … [Read more...] about Successful Black Athletes

Our bitter experience of the last four years with the OPEC oil cartel should have taught us the lesson that we should avoid U.S. dependence on imports of any essential commodity. Yet the United States has done nothing to shake our dependence on … [Read more...] about Deep Seabed Mining

As a result of Watergate, Congress and many state legislatures passed a plethora of new laws supposedly designed to reform election machinery and prevent Watergate-type abuses from happening again. Several years' experience with these laws indicate … [Read more...] about Watergate “Reform” Laws

Although the U. S. Constitution says that "all" Federal legislative powers reside in the Congress, a great deal of de facto lawmaking in the last 20 years has been done by the Federal courts. Tremendous changes in our laws have been brought about by … [Read more...] about Judicial Activism and OSHA

Zbigniew Brezezinski, President Carter's national security assistant, is getting his lumps in the press. While he holds the same position that Henry Kissinger did under President Nixon, Brezezinski shows no signs of being able to parlay it into … [Read more...] about Understanding Soviet Tactics

The latest ploy of the proponents of the Panama Canal Treaties is to get Panama dictator Torrijos to say he will permit the United States to "maintain the neutrality of the Canal" after Panama takes full control in the year 2000. Why in the world … [Read more...] about Panama Canal Neutrality

The "worst political failure" of 1977, according to a leading West German newspaper (the Hamburg Morgenpost), was President Carter. Newspapers around the world have been caustic in commenting on President Carter's recent trip to Europe and Asia. Its … [Read more...] about Carter’s Political Mistakes

The State Department plunged to new depths of diplomatic failure when it leaked out that, since the Soviets steadfastly refuse to include their new Backfire bombers in the number of strategic delivery vehicles limited by SALT II, the Carter … [Read more...] about Letter From Leonid