Citizen Leadership

When I was young, I lived in Chicago. As a college student, I lived in Evanston, Ill., which borders Chicago on the north, and later, as a law student, I lived in the heart of the city itself. Richard J. Daley was the mayor, the Democratic Party ran the city, and voter fraud was accepted as a fact of life. Read More ›

When a family member learned not long ago that he was dying of cancer, he visited a church he hadn’t much seen and, while leaving, he picked up a tract on the topic of facing death. The very first suggestion was to give thanks. Initially, it seemed perverse to him; after all, he was counting his impending losses, not his Read More ›

A week after the recent election, some Washington candidates and measures were still agonizing over what has become routinely The World’s Longest Vote Count. Not since the 19th century have election results arrived so slowly. Some nations run almost an entire election campaign in the time we take to count the votes. Canada counts its ballots in hours. Most U.S. Read More ›

This article, published by Seattle Weekly mentions Discovery Institute Board Member Jim Spady: The younger Spady is also a board member of the Discovery Institute, a group that advocates for free markets, individual liberties, and intelligent design, among other issues. The rest of the article can be found here.

WASHINGTON – If you are anything like me, you love the city. Or at least you think you do. I mean, you love the street. You siphon energy from a crowd. You love passing by businessmen, women strolling with children, gangsters, white people, black people — people of all ethnicities — on the same city block. You fancy yourself a Read More ›

Note: Read Bruce Chapman’s comments on this editorial at Discovery Blog. This article, published by The Seattle Times, is about Discovery Institute Board Member Slade Gorton: Slade Gorton could be the answer to President Bush’s latest challenge —— replacing his embattled attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by the Dallas Morning News, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer and his book Shattered Tablets: Another dangerous book this summer, this one for grown-ups, is David Klinghoffer’s marvelously lucid Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore The Ten Commandments at Our Peril. The rest of the article can be found here.

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 ›