Mr. President, Come to Your Census!
Discovery President Bruce Chapman was featured on Tuesday’s “Fox and Friends” to discuss the recent controversy over the 2010 census.
Let Statisticians, Not White House, Conduct the 2010 Census
For a while it seemed that the Obama Administration really didn’t mean last week’s suggestion that it would take conduct of the 2010 Census out of the Commerce Department and have the Census Bureau report directly to the West Wing. Perhaps, one was about to concede, the White House merely aims to create the kind of independent agency—with all the Read More ›
White House Grabs 2010 Census Power
This article, published by WorldNetDaily, quotes Bruce Chapman of Discovery: Bruce Chapman, director of the U.S. Census Bureau under President Reagan, explains the Republican objection and why the census is so important in his Discovery blog The rest of the article can be found here.
Christmas in the White House – Seven Decades Ago
“You should dream of a white Christmas, not pray for it!” joked Fr. Mike Ryan of St. James Cathedral in Seattle this week. The unusually insistent snows of recent days were frustrating for anyone trying to organize anything, including church services, but they also were lovely. They fed nostalgia, even for days before we were born. A couple of weeks Read More ›
Rogues and Prorogues in Canada
The Canadian media are filled with the exciting story of a possible, even likely, removal of the Conservative government after only six weeks’ tenure since October’s parliamentary election. Conservatives, with 46% of the seats in Parliament, still lack a majority and now the other parties—the Liberals (who have about a quarter of the seats, the New Democrats (NDP) and the Read More ›
Canada’s Strange and Marvelous Election – A Preview
If you are frazzled by the endless American election campaign, go to the Canadian press and television and look into the brief, spirited federal elections that began up North a little over a month ago and will end in eleven days. If for no other reason than that it is enjoyable to watch a campaign where one is intellectually, but Read More ›
Canada Calls Election and Holds It, While U.S. Stumbles On
William F. Buckley’s Intellect Went Beyond Basketball and Bob Knight
The first time that I met Bill Buckley we had lunch in an Italian restaurant on the lower East Side of New York City. I belong to The Quest Club, a group that meets in Fort Wayne on Friday noons, and each week members present papers they have written on a variety of topics. I had been assigned to speak Read More ›
