It’s that time of year when the CBC asks me to look back on my annual predictions in the world of bioethics to see how I did. The answer? Quite well. In fact, I think it was my best year ever. Obamacare First, I predicted that what has come to be known generically as Obamacare—actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—would Read More ›
While I was in China, I blogged about why the US is not going to get Chinese-style high speed rail. Now the Chinese Academy of Sciences is saying that maybe China shouldn’t get it either: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) reported to the State Council recently, urging the large-scale high-speed railway construction projects in China to be re-evaluated. The Read More ›
FULL REPORT (PDF) SUMMARY In 1994 the Legislature revised Wisconsin’s telecommunications law to permit and encourage competition as a catalyst for delivering new technologies, improved service quality and choice among telecommunications providers and ultimately lower prices for consumers. Although the 1994 act opened the market to competitive entry, it contains significant vestiges of legacy regulation that are no longer necessary Read More ›
The day after the Obama administration’s shellacking at the polls, Peter Orszag, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, defended Obamacare from the ramparts of the New York Times. Dubiously asserting that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a money saver, Orszag extolled the establishment of an arcane new commission to oversee the Medicare budget: Read More ›
Andrew Brown’s comment on the debate I had with Michael Reiss missed a critical point. My contention is that “the purposeful arrangement of parts” to achieve a specific purpose is the criterion that enables us to recognise design. I argued that the conclusion of design in the bacterial flagellum and in many other biological systems is no different from discerning Read More ›
Link to Interview Senior Fellow George Gilder appeared on Fox Business Channel’s Varney & Co. this morning, discussing the negative effects of environmental laws on the economy. Click on the link above to watch the interview.
This article, published by Scripps News, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards: To learn the real lowdown on how good motives can produce bad results, it helps to heed the writings and speeches of Jay Richards, a Princeton philosophy-theology Ph.D., author of “Money, Greed, and God,” and someone whose thoughts I recently took in at a speech at Colorado Read More ›
President Obama’s push for lame-duck Senate ratification of his New START arms treaty ran into a brick wall when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, a GOP arms-treaty expert, announced that he opposes a floor vote before the new Congress is seated in January 2011, when a more extensive, detailed exploration of treaty issues can be conducted. Sen. John Kerry intends to press Read More ›
This article, published by National Review, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Eric Cantor, who is poised to become the House majority leader, reads voraciously. At one point, one of his staffers, Neil Bradley, recommended that he read George Gilder’s The Israel Test. Cantor replied that he had read it six months earlier. The rest of the article can be Read More ›
Link to Interview Senior Fellow George Gilder was featured on The Dennis Prager Show this morning, discussing his recent article in the Wall Street Journal on California and the environmental movement. Click on the link above to access the interview.