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Israel Must Be More Than an Emergency

An ardently pro-Israel Catholic friend regularly takes out his frustration on me. He demands to know why American Jews aren’t outraged at President Obama for his chilliness to the Jewish state, why, when it comes to the existential dangers facing Israel, most Jews don’t seem to “get it.” A partial explanation may lie, surprisingly, in what conservative journalist William Kristol Read More ›

Billboard Campaign Puts Controversial Right-to-Die Group in the Spotlight

This article, published by Fox News, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: “The signs communicate a pro-suicide message that sends a dangerous message throughout society, including to people like the young who would not legally qualify for a lethal prescription,” said Wesley J. Smith, a California-based bioethicist who opposes assisted suicide. The rest of the article can be found Read More ›

A Vexing Problem

This article, published by Catholic World Report, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith, on his blog Secondhand Smoke, recently wrote that potential targets include “patients with profound cognitive impairments who will remain unconscious or minimally aware for the rest of their lives.” The rest of the article can be found here.

Health Care Rationing Obama Believes In

This article, published by Real Clear Politics, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith, an invaluable investigative reporter on the dangers of government-controlled health care, describes the consequences if Obamacare is not repealed by the next Congress after the midterm elections … The rest of the article can be found here.

Obama’s NASA: Fly Me to the Crescent Moon

This article, published by The Daily Caller, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder and his book The Israel Test: They might also read George Gilder’s latest book, The Israel Test. Gilder, who is not Jewish, says Israel is a wonderful test for everyone. The rest of the article can be found here.

A Classic Evolution Policy Blunder

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law last year an act that sets parameters for teachers who introduce scientific supplements on Darwinian evolution, global warming, human cloning and other controversial subjects. The state’s Science Education Act encourages “open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied.” It specifically prohibits religious instruction or interpretations (or irreligious interpretations, for that matter). The law is Read More ›

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The Dark Side of Darwinism

Between 1934 and 1939, in the interests of evolutionary hygiene, the eugenic program in Nazi Germany forcibly sterilized about 400,000 people. The victims were men and women suffering from hereditary and mental illnesses along with the deaf, the blind, alcoholics and others judged unfit to reproduce. At the time, another government was also busy sterilizing citizens it deemed racially unhygienic. Measured for eugenic enthusiasm, this other state entity ran second to Germany worldwide. And what state was that? Read More ›