This article, published by Crosscut, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: Bruce Agnew, who is heading a passenger-train “modeling” exercise for the Cascadia Project and Whatcom County governments, says, “It is clear that expansion of coal trains from the Powder River Basin through Northwest ports to China is their (BNSF) major strategic initiative.” The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
In a Washington Post op-ed, five former secretaries of state—all of whom served under Republican presidents—urged ratification of the New START Treaty, although they did not press for ratification during the current lame duck session. Could they all be wrong? In a word: Yes … The authors argue: (1) New START promotes verification; (2) New START permits missile defenses; (3) New START’s ratification Read More ›
President Obama pushed his New START Treaty through Congress before Christmas. Do not celebrate. The Russians will, and should. Why? First, the Russians got an arms-reduction treaty negotiated on their terms, relieving them of the pressure to maintain a strategic nuclear arsenal beyond what the economic base permits, enabling them to hide telemetry test data on their newest strategic missiles Read More ›
President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, “facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day.” According to distressed cultural observers, public ignorance about science is evidenced by failure to accept global warming, “animal rights,” euthanasia and Darwinian evolution. The assumption is that doubting scientists’ claims means you have divorced Read More ›
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This article, published by the TRIB Live, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: The documents could lock a person into a decision before they understand the situation, said Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow in human rights and bioethics at the Discovery Institute, a conservative Virginia-based policy group. “You can’t possibly know the circumstances in which you’ll find Read More ›
Defenders of Peter Singer like to say that his critics are just too dull to understand what he is really saying. As proof, Singer’s defenders note that opponents of his views often compare him to Hitler. And it is true: Some are so appalled by his advocacy for the permissibility of infanticide that they reflexively wield der Führer’s bones as relics of Read More ›
For bulk orders of 10 or more copies of this book, contact Pam Bailey. Accounts of the American founding often focus on its roots in Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment thought. In this textbook, Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner explore how the Protestant Reformation also influenced the thinking of America’s Founders, supplying a foundation for core principles like the dignity of Read More ›
Norman Ornstein had a piece in the Washington Post railing against “death panels” in Indiana and Arizona, both of which involved Medicaid budget limits. He omitted the death panel in Oregon — perhaps because it is a liberal state? — which has explicitly rationed care under Medicaid since being allowed to conduct rationing under the Clinton administration. In Oregon, Medicaid has a list of Read More ›
This article, published by The Gospel Coalition, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: “The new rules are a full frontal assault on religious liberty at an institutional level,” says Wesley Smith, a bioethicist who serves as a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Human Exceptionalism, as a consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, and with the Read More ›