Reading at Home
The opening of school this fall·confronted the public with many thorny problems. In some areas it is busing, in others it is controversial textbooks, and in still others…
Category: Phyllis Schlafly Report Column
Israeli-Egyptian Peace
Before we commit ourselves to station American technicians to guard the shaky Sinai peace between the Israeli and Egyptian armies, we should have a clear picture of why…
Public Health Problems
From the time John Rolfe first sent tobacco to England in the 17th century until recent years, to smoke or not to smoke was considered a matter of…
Investment Capital
Unemployment in the United States today is the highest in 35 years. There is no way the Federal Government can provide any significant number of the jobs needed,…
Brazil & Japan
First question: What is the principal export product of Brazil? If your answer was coffee, you are wrong. All the geography books and encyclopedias are now obsolete. This…
Child Services Bill
In a moment of rare candor, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey once called the teachers’ lobby the most powerful single lobby in the United States. It…
Ford’s Legion Speech
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev must have gotten a big laugh about President Ford’s speech to the American Legion in which he warned that, if Brezhnev doesn’t hurry up…
Portugal & Angola
It seems to be a reliable rule of thumb that the intensity of one’s anti-Communism increases the closer one approaches the reality of Communist rule. Conversely, acceptance of…
Streetcars and Buses
One of the hit tunes from Judy Garland’s movie “Meet Me In St. Louis” was “The Trolley Song.” “Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley.” About the time that…
TV Violence
Mark Twain is usually credited with the expression, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The same complaint might be voiced about the subject…