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The “Rule OF Terri’s Case” has struck again. The term was coined by Pat Anderson, attorney for Terri Schiavo’s parents Bob and Mary Schindler, who complained: “If following a legal procedure will likely result in Terri dying, it will be adhered to. But if a procedure could make that outcome more difficult to attain, it will not be followed.” Anderson’s Read More ›

JANUARY 29, 2004 – New science standards proposed by the Georgia Department of Education eliminate all references to “evolution” and instead use the term “biological changes over time,” in order to avoid public protest over the lack of thoroughness in how evolution is presented. “This is just absurd. Georgia needs to teach more about evolution, not less,” said Rob Crowther, spokesman Read More ›

Remarks of Discovery Institute Sr. Fellow David Dewolf, Professor of Law Gonzaga Law School to Darby School DistrictJanuary 28, 2004 Thank you. I am very appreciative of your allowing me to offer my reflections on the proposed policy. Before I do so, I’d like to clarify my role in this process. Although I have an opinion regarding the constitutionality of Read More ›

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/122004a.asp (AgapePress) – CNN is being asked to recant a story about a bill in the Missouri legislature that would allow teachers to be fired for not teaching alternatives to the theory of evolution, such as the Intelligent Design theory. Recently on the program CNN Sunday Morning, correspondent Denise Belgrave stated that nine states were grappling with the debate over Read More ›

Original Article Conservative group says network got it wrong in reporting on challenges to the exclusive teaching of Darwinian evolution in schools. CNN has been accused of distorting a conservative think-tank’s position on how children should be taught about the origins of life. At issue is a recent report suggesting there’s a national movement under way to fire teachers who Read More ›

“I am from the government and I am here to help you,” is a well-known oxymoron again proving to be true. A decade ago, we had a mean Internal Revenue Service that did all sorts of terrible and unjustified things to innocent taxpayers. The people got mad, and the people’s representatives — the House and the Senate — held hearings Read More ›

A group turning to trains to improve transportation in Snohomish County has set its sights on a little-used rail line on the Eastside. The group, made up of residents and elected leaders and backed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project, is trying to bring a new kind of high-speed rail car to the Puget Sound region. Burlington Northern Santa Read More ›

Consumer’s Guide to aBrave New World,by Wesley J. Smith(Encounter, 219 pp., $25.95) Leo Strauss found it telling that Machiavelli mentioned only one other figure who served as the teacher of princes, the office that Machiavelli was claiming for himself. And that was Chiron the centaur, who was aptly constituted to be a tutor of princes because he was half man, Read More ›

Original A new website designed to help teachers teach evolution encourages the use of religion when arguing in favor of the theory and uses federal tax dollars to do so. The site, Understanding Evolution, was developed in part using a $450,000 grants from the National Science Foundation. According to a statement from the Discovery Institute, the website was put together Read More ›