In the interest of the public’s right to know, Senator Jim Jeffords’ Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions conducted an oversight hearing last week on the controversies surrounding “Channel One.” That’s the 12-minute-a-day news and advertising program beamed into the classrooms of 40% of all 11 to 18-year-olds.
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Everybody’s looking for the causes of the terrible tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and for ways to prevent such horrible happenings in the future.
Continue reading →Bill Clinton’s threats to enter the Kosovo conflict are a direct attack on national sovereignty, our own as well as Yugoslavia’s. The foreign policy gurus of the Clinton Administration don’t believe in the concept of sovereignty and are trying to replace it, piece by piece, with their global utopian vision.
Continue reading →We had hoped that the 106th Congress would address the health care and HMO issue by giving more power to patients. Instead, the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property has scheduled a hearing this week on a bill to lay the groundwork for corporations to control, manipulate, and market our most intimate medical records.
Continue reading →Do you sometimes wonder why bills that create a financial windfall to narrow special interests slide easily through the intricate legislative process, while bills that benefit the general public seem to get bogged down?
Continue reading →The good news is, we were saved from the threat of a mega-union running the public schools when delegates to the National Education Association (NEA) convention this summer repudiated their own leadership by voting down a merger with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Continue reading →If trend-setting California passes the English For the Children initiative on June 2, that will be good news for public school children all over the country.
Continue reading →Sometimes I think there are only two classes of people: those who can profit by the mistakes of others and those who insist on making their own. With the glaring example of Quebec just across our northern border, a festering wound of ethnic disunity verging on national dissolution, how could the Republican Congress even think of permitting Puerto Rico to play a similar role in the United States?
Continue reading →G.I. Jane (Demi Moore) proves she is a liberated woman by getting herself beaten to a bloody pulp, almost raped, and subjected to extreme bodily harassment. To the feminists, this is okay because her goal is to be treated just like men.
Continue reading →Last week in Philadelphia I stopped by to revisit Independence Hall, the cradle of our republic where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the United States Constitution was written.
Continue reading →While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA) convention were meeting in Atlanta to gloat about their political victories.
Continue reading →Now we are told that adultery may pay off big for Kelly Flinn.
Continue reading →All segments of the conservative movement are united in opposing Most Favored Nation (MFN) status and World Trade Organization (WTO) membership for Communist China. Newt Gingrich has a golden opportunity to step out in front of his troops and lead them to victory on this issue.
Continue reading →Did we elect a Republican Senate last November or didn’t we? We’ll find out when the Senate votes on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). That will be the first important test of whether or not Republican Senators are willing to stand up for American interests against the internationalist ploys of Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright.
Continue reading →School-to-work (STW) is the most recent “reform” that is “restructuring” the nation’s public schools.
Continue reading →If the education establishment wants to know why public schools don’t get much respect from our citizenry, they need look no further than an Op-Ed editorial in last week’s New York Times. This prestigious newspaper donated an expensive half page to complaints about the alleged problem of “censorship” in public schools.
Continue reading →“Deceptive and mischievous” is the way the Denver Post characterized a Term Limits initiative that will be on the Colorado ballot on November 5.
Continue reading →Now that women are attending law schools in greater numbers, feminists are turning up as law school professors, law review writers, state legislators, congressional staffers, prosecutors, law clerks, and even judges.
Continue reading →It’s many years overdue, but the scandal of widespread illiteracy has finally become a topic of general discussion and debate, from local newspapers to network TV news. Americans are at last being told the tragic fact that the public schools are failing to teach children how to read.
Continue reading →Bill Clinton’s policy of cozying up to Communist China by granting Most Favored Nation (MFN) status is in shambles.
Continue reading →One of the most popular and successful grassroots movements of the last decade has been the movement for Term Limits.
Continue reading →One of the most obnoxious features of the Clinton health care plan (which died the death of a thousand cuts in 1994) was its creation of a long list of new federal “Health Care Crimes.”
Continue reading →Why do some people persist in mouthing the mantra “free trade” when foreign countries can and do engage in all sorts of dishonest tactics that interfere with trade, such as devaluation or other manipulation of the value of their money, confiscation (or nationalization) of U.S. property, refusing to live up to the contracts and agreements they sign, stealing our patents and copyrights, and counterfeiting our money?
Continue reading →When Bob Dole said in New Hampshire, “I didn’t realize that jobs and trade and what makes America work would become a big issue in the last few days of this campaign,” he revealed the cloistered mindset of government officials who have relative job security backed up by a golden parachute.
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