In the Public Interest

In a fit of cowering frenzy, the bipartisan cabal of Speaker Jim Wright and Republican leader, Bob Michel, have shut down the House of Representatives until February 8th when they expect to get their Pay Raise of 51%. Forcing the House of Representatives to go on strike and lock out Representatives from raising this or…

The showdown over the Reagan Salary Grab for top government officials of 51% or a $45,000 raise will reach a climax on February 8th. If both the House and Senate do not vote it down, by then, members of Congress, federal district court judges and top government officials will go to $135,000, plus many benefits,…

The bands are ‘a playing, the flags are ‘a waving and the taxpayers are ‘a paying for Ronald Reagan’s finale and departure, as they have paid for the past eight years of fiscal and political profligacy. Elaborate publicity events, planned by White House public relations, are taking the media by storm. Nor are the supine…

With Ronald Reagan announcing his gigantic salary grab to increase by 50% the pay of members of Congress and other top government officials (including his own pension), the 32 year career of retiring Senator, William Proxmire (0-WI) stands in even more startling contrast. Senators don’t come along like Proxmire anymore. Replacing Joseph McCarthy in 1956,…

There are not many people who can marshall facts and arguments better than physics — trained, Amory Lovins, the Director of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Old Snowmass, Colorado. His specialty for the past fifteen years has been energy and his target — the massive waste of energy in this country. You do not see…

The irrepressible Clint Reilly, who managed to spend a war chest of $70 million for the insurance companies and lose three ballot referendums in California, is drumming up new business for this firm — Clinton Reilly Campaigns. In a private 13 page memorandum, titled “Agenda 1989: The Lessons of the 1988 Insurance Campaign”, he advises…

The problem with President Reagan’s Commission on the salaries of top government officials is that the millionaires are not. as well represented as the multimillionaires on the nine-member panel. As might be expected, these moguls — mostly corporate lawyers and corporate executives (Aetna, Metropolitan Life, Loews Corp., Morrison Knudsen Corp.) recommended 50 percent increases in…

What incompetent physicians do to their women patients in this country amounts to a nationwide mayhem and carnage, regularly observed by their competent colleagues, who know of this chronic malpractice, yet remain silent. For over a generation, physicians have conducted unnecessary hysterectomies which now total in the millions. Despite numerous authoritative studies condemning the abuse…

Since 1985 the Japanese Yen has become stronger as against the U.S. dollar which has become weaker. It takes less than half the Yen now to buy a dollar than it did a little over three years ago. What this means for our country is that America is becoming cheaper to buy for the Japanese…

Lowell Weicker, the Senator from Connecticut, the maverick Republican, will soon be a former Senator. Attorney General Joseph Lieberman narrowly defeated him on November 8th, in part with a television ad likening Weicker to a snoozing bear to illustrate a number of absences from Senate floor votes. When it comes to defending the U.S. Constitution,…