You would think that the people who are always complaining about the Defense Department budget would cheer if the Pentagon saves money. But no. The recent announcement that the Defense Department underspent its budget by some “13 billion last year … [Read more...] about Military-Industrial Complex

President-elect Jimmy Carter is spending a large share of his time this month digging through some 7,000 names of job applicants and other possible appointees to fill the 2,200 positions in his administration that are not covered by Civil Service. … [Read more...] about Carter’s Appointments

A Federal judge in Los Angeles has just provided new grist for the mills of those who think that the Federal courts are the principal cause for the flood of pornography that has inundated newsstands, movies and television during the last several … [Read more...] about TV Family Hour Decision

The head of the AFL-CIO labor union in the U.S. Canal Zone recently sued Secretary of State Kissinger, Special Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, and President Ford in the U.S. Federal Court in Panama. This suit seeks to enjoin the Kissinger—Bunker … [Read more...] about Lawsuit on Panama

The birth of any new nation is usually accompanied by labor pains and blood-letting. In sharp contrast was the quiet and painless birth last month of a new African country called the Transkei. In an era when black majority rule is accepted as the … [Read more...] about Independence for Transkei

Most Congressional bills or amendments that pass one House but are not voted on in the other House die quietly without further controversy. An exception to this rule is an amendment to the education bill proposed by Congressman John Conlan which … [Read more...] about Secular Humanism

The announcement that Milton Friedman, probably the world's most famous champion of the free market, has received the Nobel prize for economics, is the latest in a series of events this year confirming the new respectability of conservatism. In the … [Read more...] about Nobel Prize to Friedman

Great All-American football star President Ford is staggering in his effort to carry both Henry Kissinger and Kissinger's top assistant Helmut Sonnenfeldt up to election day. When Henry Kissinger agreed in Paris to let the North Vietnamese troops … [Read more...] about Ford’s Position on Eastern Europe

One clearcut policy difference between President Ford and Governor Carter that surfaced in their foreign policy debate, but has unfortunately received little comment since then, is the matter of arms shipments to Iran. Although Iran is a faraway … [Read more...] about Arms to Iran