We all think we’re pretty valuable stuff. But what are we really worth? That all depends on whether you ask your mother, grandmother, siblings, your priest or rabbi, pharmacist, local chemist, philosopher, organ salesman, or the government and its endless agencies. With all the concern about health-care costs, a number of statistical czars in various branches of government have pegged Read More ›
Cars are just too expensive for seniors, proclaimed the politician when he unveiled his new plan. The bill passed, and so the government collected money from every worker’s paycheck to buy the cars, then paid the dealers about 20 percent of the market prices. Soon every senior had a car through the government program cleverly called “AutoCare.” But there were Read More ›
Warning! There are some new contagious diseases that even the modern miracles of medicine won’t ever be able to cure. Spread through close contact with trial lawyers, they include lawsuititis, legal paralysis and class-action insanity. Unfortunately these societal diseases will have to be treated by some person or group other than the same modern day “out-law” group that caused them. Read More ›
So the United States Army finally made a decent decision and decided to trash all those Made-in-China and “Chinese Material” black berets. Perhaps we should follow their lead. A boycott? No way. Still, there may be good reasons for individuals, as individuals, to start looking more carefully at those labels. We take as our text the American Revolution, and a Read More ›
When the Bush administration took office last January, the Pentagon ended several years of (to borrow from a recent movie) “Waiting to Exhale.” Soon they were gasping again. Now, once more, they’re holding their breath. Nothing quite like this has ever happened in Washington, D.C. That’s because no nation has ever faced the military situation this nation confronts. And the Read More ›
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2001-06-20/feature.html/page1.html A provocative theory called “intelligent design” claims evolution is hogwash. But it’s not the usual religious zealots leading the latest attack on Darwin. It’s scientists and professors at Cal. In a crumbling UC Berkeley research lab, Jed Macosko is looking for God. Macosko is a molecular biology researcher who holds chemistry degrees from Cal and MIT. As a Christian, Read More ›
Note: This article originally appeared on 6/19/01. We can all agree that the Democrats have got it right this time on the subject of energy price controls. They want to pass a federal law that will put a limit on how much anyone can charge for electricity, natural gas and gasoline. The current term that they are using for this Read More ›
Proceeding’s summation by then sitting board member Robert P. George: Authentic education plainly requires fair consideration of all reasonable points of view. It is disturbing that there are efforts to exclude from the curriculum responsible criticism of Darwinism. There is nothing to be lost, and everything to be gained, from free and open inquiry. Robert P. George McCormick Professor of Read More ›