With privacy concerns already heightened, and Colorado judges making private expense accounts public, now comes something even more alarming: An Obama administration proposal would allow FBI access to the customer records of Internet access providers without a judge’s order. As a result, the proposal means Internet records are now less protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures Read More ›
This article, published by the American Farm Bureau Federation, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: From this provocative statement comes the title of Wesley J. Smith’s new book “A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy.” In this exceptional book, published earlier this year, Smith makes the strong case that the animal rights movement is Read More ›
With the help of prognosticator John R. Miller — former U.S. ambassador-at-large on modern slavery, visiting scholar at the Institute for Government Studies at UC-Berkeley, and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute — we present this memo from the year 2016, which explains what misfortunes might have befallen the Middle East by then. SBU (Sensitive but Unclassified) February 20, 2016 Read More ›
Dr. Jack Collins, Sr. Fellow at the Discovery Institute, answers the center question by going through definitions, history, and various aspirations of past and present theologians and religious groups. Listen to how he surprisingly answers the question.
The news about the court victory for critics of embryonic stem cell research is huge, though it is not being played that way. You can be sure it would have been a bigger story if the case had been won by the government. Nonetheless, it is in the first section of most papers and even on page one of the Wall Street Read More ›
George Gilder lectures on his book, The Israel Test. He notes the intimate relationship America has with Israel and how very important this intimacy is for our economy. He suggests there are a number of ways we need to learn from the nation and start implementing their various beliefs and strategies. Read More ›
This article, published by , mentions a presentation organized by Discovery Institute and quotes from Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellows Bruce Gordon and Michael Behe: At a July 12 Seattle presentation, hosted by the Discovery Institute, Father Spitzer emphasized that his talk was specifically about “what contemporary astrophysics and cosmology is saying about God, creation and Read More ›
Over the course of a year, Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell has made a powerful impact for intelligent design, reaching a wide audience with its cutting-edge science. Visit http://www.signatureinthecell.com for more information.
In World magazine on July 17, Marvin Olasky called on “progressive evangelical” Jim Wallis to come clean and admit that he is not a non-partisan, as he likes to claim, but rather a devoted man of the Left. Olasky reported that Wallis’s organization, Sojourners, had received grants from George Soros’s foundation, the Open Society Institute (OSI), and had lent Sojourners’ mailing list to Read More ›
In a castle in Newcastle, complete with reflecting pool, dappled woods nooked with marble sculptures, and pastures lowing with cattle, Matt Ridley, dean of British science writers and author of four erudite, Darwinian bestsellers, might seem an intellectual grandee ready for an honorable, bland retirement in a North Country Eden, perhaps readying himself for the House of Lords. But at Read More ›