A combination of President Bush’s “read my lips” determination to veto any tax increases plus the shadow of the federal deficit has kept the liberal Democratic Congress from initiating any new spending program. But now, rash talk of a “peace … [Read more...] about How to Spend the Peace Dividend
Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
California is a trend setter for all sorts of movements that have swept across our nation from no-fault divorce to the tax-cutting Proposition 13. Now the California Republican State Central Committee meeting on March 9-11 will set the stage for … [Read more...] about Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
People Just Don’t Want Government Child Care
There’s a nasty little secret circulating in the cloakrooms of Congress. While liberal Democrats publicly proclaim that a bill will soon pass to plunge the Federal Government headlong into the business of babysitting preschool children, these same … [Read more...] about People Just Don’t Want Government Child Care
Censoring Out Western Culture
The educators have come up with all kinds of excuses to explain why some minorities are falling behind in the essential skills and knowledge which we expect them to acquire during their years in public schools. The public is no longer willing to … [Read more...] about Censoring Out Western Culture
Look Who’s Censoring Books!
John Buchanan, chairman of the lobby group called People for the American Way (PAW) appeared before the Alabama State Textbook Committee recently to urge censoring a 1989 supplementary science book called Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis, Dean … [Read more...] about Look Who’s Censoring Books!
Why University Standards are so Low
You may have suspected that academic standards of American universities have declined, but you won’t know how low until you read ProfScam by Charles J. Sykes (just published in paperback: St. Martin’s, $9.95). This book is a devastating indictment of … [Read more...] about Why University Standards are so Low
The Lesson of Women in Combat in Panama
The real lesson we learn from the use of women in the Panama invasion is that most of what we hear about the performance of women in the U.S. Army is grossly exaggerated even to the point of falsehood. The U.S. Army finally admitted that, contrary … [Read more...] about The Lesson of Women in Combat in Panama
Look Who’s Lobbying for Federal Daycare
The alleged demand for the Federal Government to initiate a giant daycare apparatus, with all the trappings of new bureaucracy and regulation, is a creation of the media who are pursuing a liberal agenda and of special-interest groups which seek to … [Read more...] about Look Who’s Lobbying for Federal Daycare
Tell it Like it is, Al Shanker
“American education as it exists today will not be tolerated by the American people, by our business community, by our policy leaders for more than another few years.” That was said, not by some so-called “enemy” of public schools, but by Al Shanker, … [Read more...] about Tell it Like it is, Al Shanker
Time to Take Back Our Canal
Ask yourself the question, why is President Bush receiving such overwhelming approval (the ABC poll said 80 percent) for his invasion of Panama? Why did the usually super-cautious, non-risk-taking President feel that he could order an American … [Read more...] about Time to Take Back Our Canal
