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This article, published by The Jewish World Review, quotes Discovery Institute 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reporter on the dangers of government-controlled health care, describes the consequences if ObamaCare is not repealed by the next Congress after the midterm elections … The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by Salvo, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: Back in Salvo 9, we featured an interview with the always-intriguing Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. The rest of the article can be Read More ›

This article appears in the legal journal University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy Vol. IV(1):326-353 (Fall, 2009), published by University of St. Thomas School of Law. Click here for a PDF of the full article. Abstract: In 2000, my coauthors and I published an article proposing that public schools would violate no constitutional prohibition (and would Read More ›

Since 1988, when euthanasia advocates failed to qualify for a legalization initiative on the California ballot, the assisted suicide movement in the United States has gone from a barely noticed fringe movement to a well-funded political machine that threatens Hippocratic medical values and the sanctity/equality of human life. Consider the disturbing history: In 1994, Oregon legalized assisted suicide (by a Read More ›

This article, published by The New American, mentions and quotes Discovery Institute: In 2001, the Discovery Institute launched a list of hundreds of scientists who dissent from Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. According to the Institute, “During recent decades, new scientific evidence from many scientific disciplines such as cosmology, physics, biology, “artificial intelligence” research, and others have caused scientists to begin Read More ›

A business is not a family or a charity or a government. It has a specific social function with a specific purpose, which implies specific duties. One of its responsibilities — its duties — is to make a profit. I know that Milton Friedman argued famously in 1970 that profit-maximizing was the only responsibility of executives, and that’s an overstatement. Still, think about Read More ›