Amidst the horrific news all over the globe, this holiday season has been a time to count our blessings, and pray for better days ahead for all civilized humanity and for deliverance from atavist barbarism. This season brings us the gift of Francis Albert Sinatra (1915–1998), in the marking of his birth centennial. Nearly seven years ago I penned a TAS article, Awaiting Read More ›
December 11, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Hance Haney hhaney@discovery.org 202-558-7083 George Gilder, Hance Haney and John Wohlstetter of the Discovery Institute’s Technology & Democracy Project urge Congress to pass the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 644). “The Internet Tax Freedom Act has prevented broadband Internet access services from being taxed like alcohol, tobacco and telecommunications since 1998. Had the Internet been taxed like telecom, it would have added 18% on average to the cost of a monthly subscription and slowed the growth of Internet services. “The time has come for Congress to extend this important consumer protection, which expires today. A tax on broadband would be regressive, inefficient and contrary to the goal of affordable broadband for all Read More ›
The other day, I read a column in the National Post that made my stomach turn. It wasn’t the quality of the writing, which was quite good, but the content. The writer celebrated a recent Canadian Supreme Court ruling that determined lethal-injection termination is a charter right. As a result, euthanasia will soon be bureaucratized and normalized—made banal—in Canada: [S]ooner or later, death will become a Read More ›
How many political insiders do you know who are opposed to Barack Obama and his nefarious works — IRS abuses, corporate bribes, climate fantasies, bailouts for Iran, importing saboteurs — yet save their peak agitation for Donald Trump, a presidential candidate they say “can’t” be nominated? If it “can’t” happen, why sputter to the point of apoplexy? Perhaps because “it” Read More ›
The federal technocracy, like the old B-horror-movie monster The Blob, grows by sucking all surrounding life into its amoeba-like digestive system. There are never enough bureaucratic controls or government programs to “incentivize” us—in the jargon—to behave in ways the technocrats think best. That is why we should look with a jaundiced eye at new legislation that would pay Medicare beneficiaries for Read More ›
Speaking at a session of the Hillsdale College lecture series Money: History and Controversies, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow dissects “The Problem of Crony Capitalism Today,” discussing how the rise of the regulatory state has brought about an increasingly cozy relationship between Washington and big business. Read More ›
Speaking at a session of the Hillsdale College lecture series Money: History and Controversies, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow dissects “The Problem of Crony Capitalism Today,” discussing how the rise of the regulatory state has brought about an increasingly cozy relationship between Washington and big business. Lobbying, Walton points out, has evolved from companies protecting themselves from such things as tax Read More ›
Speaking at a session of the Hillsdale College lecture series Money: History and Controversies, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow dissected “The Problem of Crony Capitalism Today,” discussing how the rise of the regulatory state has brought about an increasingly cozy relationship between Washington and big business. Lobbying, Walton points out, has evolved from companies protecting themselves from such things as tax Read More ›
Below is the text of the statement on intelligent design that the Dover Area School Board in Dover, Pennsylvania required to be read in sciences classes before students studied the topic of evolution. The policy mandating the reading of the statement was adopted in 2004. The main group representing scientists supportive of intelligent design, Discovery Institute, opposed the Dover policy. Read More ›
Most readers of Evolution News likely know the central thesis of Stephen Meyer’s bestseller, Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. Meyer argues that the functional biological information necessary to build the Cambrian animals is best explained by the activity of a designing intelligence, rather than an undirected, materialistic evolutionary process. Most reviews of Darwin’s Doubt curiously omitted Read More ›