PBS television last month aired a two-hour program attempting to justify the giving away of our U.S. Canal at Panama by the Jimmy Carter Administration in 1978, a transfer which will take final effect in the year 2000. That date is approaching … [Read more...] about The Panama Canal Issue Revisited
The Failure of Our Monopoly School System — June 1990
The Anti-Communists Were Right, After All — April 1990
Gone With the Wind Revisited
So often, nostalgia about events and persons of our youth make them seem better and larger than life. We remember the special hand-beaten cake that Grandmother used to bake, the ice cream we licked from the dasher in the old hand-cranked freezers, … [Read more...] about Gone With the Wind Revisited
The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
For those of us who lived through the dramatic events of November 22, 1963, the many recent television programs revisiting the Kennedy assassination had a morbid fascination. There still are, as Walter Cronkite opined in his PBS documentary, an … [Read more...] about The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
The Phyllis Schlafly Report – July 1988
WHO HAS THE MORAL RIGHT TO PREACH?
Among the several times that Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev showed their bad manners while ln Washington for the recent Summit, the most outrageous was when Gorby declaimed, " What moral right does the United Stales have to preach to us, to the rest of … [Read more...] about WHO HAS THE MORAL RIGHT TO PREACH?
Reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine — May 1987
A group of distinguished persons from the North American continent gathered in the U.S. State Department Diplomatic Rooms on April 28, 1987 to proclaim the lasting vitality and relevance of the Monroe Doctrine. It was an event of political, … [Read more...] about Reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine — May 1987
A Short History of E.R.A. — September 1986
Hope and Despair
When the American POWs coming home after the Korean War were debriefed by the Army, the doctors discovered that some Gls had become victims of a strange new disease which they labeled "giveupitis." Major William E. Mayer, the chief Army psychiatrist … [Read more...] about Hope and Despair