The only real solution is to create schools that are allowed to teach value standards, even religious ones. But this requires private schools competing with the government ones. Let the national greatness media confront the NEA with the voucher head on, not leisurely, but every day. Not the strategic defense initiative, which everyone now purports to support, but a tough one like military standards. At the Naval Academy, female midshipmen were almost 2.5 times more likely to suffer torn ligaments as men, and were injured 11 times more on the obstacle course.
Pregnancy is now officially compatible with a military career.
Before confronting Slobodan Milosevic, Bill Kristol, solve that. But if name-calling is what it takes to begin the debate, then so be it. Before we trip into something even worse, it is time to decide whether American greatness consists of world crusades of moral cleansing or of building free institutions peacefully, from the bottom up. Donald Devine , former director Of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is a columnist and a Washington-based policy consultant and Treasurer for the American Conservative Union.