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

The 200th anniversary of the founding of the first engineering school in America will be observed at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on June 9. It was at Valley Forge on June 9, 1778, at the end of the historic winter encampment, that General George … [Read more...] about Engineering Anniversary

Recent surveys of women imprisoned on homicide charges show that a high percentage nad been repeatedly battered by the men they finally killed. Most of the killings happened in a fit of passion and were not premeditated. In the Cook County (Chicago) … [Read more...] about Wife-Beating Remedies

A recent article in COMMERCE magazine by two businessmen asks the question, "are regulatory agencies friend or foe?" While it might be assumed that a couple of businessmen would take the position that regulatory agencies are a foe of business, Jay … [Read more...] about Regulatory Agencies