Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership
Third Avenue in downtown Seattle, especially in the blocks around Pike Pine streets, is so dangerous that ordinary office workers are anxious for their safety when they go out to lunch. In winter, when dark settles at 4:30, female office workers go in twos to their cars or buses. There have been a number of murders and many muggings, some Read More ›
Charges and countercharges swirl in the campaigns for election to judicial office in Washington state, particularly the closely watched campaign for Position 2 on the Washington Supreme Court. When phrases such as judicial activism, justice for sale, legislating from the bench and destroying judicial independence are being tossed about, it’s hard for the average voter to know what is appropriate Read More ›
Consider the case of Michael Savage, right-wing radio guy, and the not trivial effect he could have on the upcoming election. What’s curious about him is the tantalizing possibility — now with a smoking gun — that his three-hour daily show is an act, a put-on. According to Talkers magazine, he’s the country’s third-most-listened-to radio talk host, with 8.25 million listeners who Read More ›
We Americans celebrate several important anniversaries and commemorate a number of others, most recently the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. But a significant date went by last month with very little notice, in the press or otherwise. April 9 marked 140 years since Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, commander Read More ›
George Gilder delivered the keynote address at the Fourth Annual Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law Symposium held at Duke Law School on April 1, 2005.
Critics of George Bush’s Iraq policy have bemused themselves with anti-war demonstrations and public opinion overseas, plus the pronouncements of France, Germany and Russia. They conclude that America has suffered diplomatic rejection by “the whole world.” The war is about to recruit new waves of terrorists, they say, and at last precipitate the downfall of the American “empire.” But while Read More ›
It is all well and good, as TomPaine.com does in its Feb. 19 blast at President Bush, to go after a political opponent. That would be fair, if it were based on fact. But the regulations being changed impact no families, adoptive or otherwise, because not a single state chose to implement them. To criticize President Bush for an action Read More ›
Bruce Chapman, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, deputy assistant to President Ronald Reagan, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna, Austria, has been president of Discovery Institute since 1990. In 1967 he made an early case for an all-volunteer military in The Wrong Man in Uniform (Trident Press of Simon & Schuster). If each woman Read More ›
There has been general agreement from those across the ideological and political spectrum that Florida’s new law requiring women to publish the details of their sexual resumes if they want to place a baby through private adoption should be changed. But now, in an Aug. 22 column in The Washington Times, Dianna Thompson and Glen Sacks claim that the law Read More ›