With Super Tuesday behind us, the would-be front-runner ought to pull a surprise move and just drop attack ads against party rivals. Going positive with a message to save the very programs that are supported by the base of Democrat Party—by taking aggressive steps to balance government revenues and outlays and reengineer a high-growth economy—would be a surprise reversal and Read More ›
The success of new laws and regulations is best measured by how they address and fix the core problems they are designed to solve. By this simple standard, Dodd-Frank is a failure. The regulatory paperwork for banks has nearly tripled, making the processing of loans more difficult, costly and protracted when the economy can least afford it. Banks are still Read More ›
On this episode of the Discovery Institute Podcast, host David Boze discusses with senior fellow Jay Richards why economic and social issues are inextricably interlinked and how controversial issues, including abortion and redefining marriage fit in to a limited government world-view. “We argue that Americans are “like tourists on a sunny beach. We’ve heard news of an earthquake on the Read More ›
To many observers, Russia often appears to be dragging its feet in international condemnation of Iran. Last month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quick to say that after military attack on Iran the “consequences will be truly catastrophic, their real scope impossible to imagine.” Russia has also frequently pushed against the use of sanctions on Iran. This week it called Read More ›
Two bills before the Legislature, House Bill 1551 and Senate Bill 1742, aim to encourage science teachers to fully teach controversial scientific subjects by protecting them from retribution for doing so. Opponents claim the bills intend to promote the teaching of religion. But the intent of those who created these bills is to free the teaching of science from political Read More ›
The blogosphere exploded in outrage last month when two bioethicists argued that parents should be able to have their newborn babies painlessly killed. Even more radically, they claimed that “after-birth abortion” should be used to describe such homicides, as opposed to “infanticide,” because the moral status of an infant is “comparable with that of a fetus…rather than that of a Read More ›
This article, published by The Northern Light, discusses Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: To inform the public about the possibility of a train station, Bruce Agnew, the director of the Seattle-based transportation advocacy group Cascadia Center for Regional Development, will give a presentation on the work the Cascadia Center has been doing… The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva created quite a ruckus when they proposed permitting “after-birth abortion” in a recent article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. To be sure, some of the reaction was too extreme. Death threats are never acceptable. But people had every right to push back hard against an agenda that would effectively destroy the very concept of Read More ›
March 5, Los Angeles –Trial begins this week in a lawsuit over whether NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) unlawfully discriminated against an employee for discussing the scientific theory of intelligent design (ID) at work. The jury trial is set to begin Wednesday, March 7. David Coppedge, a 14-year JPL veteran and team lead computer administrator on the Cassini Mission to Read More ›
This article, published by The Stanford Review, discusses a talk given by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: George Gilder’s part of the talk offered a positive counterpoint to Thiel’s. Gilder, now age 72, described in significant detail the technological progress made since his younger years. The rest of the article can be found here.