The quick, pragmatic answer is the national passenger snail service known as Amtrak cannot be allowed to collapse. That means the railway should receive the short-term financing needed to keep it alive through October and into next year. Clearly, however, the three-decades-old Amtrak is a failure as it is now configured. Last week, the Bush administration proposed shifting more of Read More ›
To put the upcoming seven-part PBS series Evolution in perspective, think fat. Dietary fat. For decades folks in white coats have confidently assured the public that shunning fatty foods — bacon and eggs, butter, steak — would make for longer, healthier lives. Well, guess what? In The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, published in the March 30 issue of the Read More ›
Move over, Darwin. Most Ohioans think the long-standing scientific theory that life evolved by natural processes – a mainstay of high school lessons for decades – ought to share classroom space with an upstart concept that a supernatural designer guided human development. A clear majority of the state’s residents – 59 percent – favor teaching evolution in tandem with intelligent Read More ›
Larry Witham discusses the PBS series “Evolution” in an article published for The Washington Times: The PBS documentary “Evolution” has generated a cultural debate that its producers expected. … The Discovery Institute, a public policy organization in Seattle, commissioned a public poll finding that eight in 10 Americans said a public television program on evolution should present scientific arguments for Read More ›
With all the recent media attention that has been given to the G-men memos, secret intelligence reports that vaguely or clearly detailed the terrorist action that came to be known as 9/11, it gives me great pleasure to point out an unknown local author named Philip Gold who also predicted the catastrophe. Here in Seattle we have a man who, Read More ›
If you boarded an airplane and had some concern about it being hijacked, would you be more concerned about an older woman with a sewing kit, or a young man in casual clothing with no visible carry-on items as a fellow passenger? If you answered the young man, you are being rational rather than an anti-young-man bigot. Older women are Read More ›
“It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).” Leading Darwinist Richard Dawkins The wicked and insane will presumably have to fend for themselves, but for the rest of us, PBS has undertaken a massive new Read More ›
A trip down to Portland on Amtrak’s comfortable Cascades train leaves you relaxed and ready to enjoy tales of woe from those who have dealt with airport security or traffic on Interstate 5. As well, riding the rails gives passengers time to reflect on a trio of topics: how we deal with Northwest growth, the Mickey Mouse aspects to the Read More ›