What has President Obama accomplished with his twin nuclear thunderbolts regarding the April 6th Nuclear Posture Review [NPR] & the April 8th New START Treaty? Put simply, President Obama has “done in” strategic nuclear policy — what in business is called “betting the company.” If he gets a bad result from any of a half-dozen nuclear gambles, he is likely Read More ›
The first of three TV debates in the British national campaign brought Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg to the considered attention of many voters for the first time. He made a strong impression as the reasonable man in beteween two parties that, for various reasons, fail to inspire. By most accounts he “won” the debate. The last time the Liberal Party Read More ›
Link to Interview Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith was featured recently on The Michael Medved Show, debating animal rights with noted legal scholar Gary Francione. The link above provides the audio of the conversation.
Supervisors at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory illegally harassed, demoted and humiliated a computer specialist and high-level system administrator for his beliefs about intelligent design, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court. BACKGROUND: David Coppedge has worked on the Cassini mission since 1997. In 2000 he earned recognition for excellence, receiving the important role of “Team Lead SA” (system Read More ›
PASADENA, CA—Supervisors at NASA’s prestigious Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) illegally harassed and demoted a high-level computer system administrator for expressing support of intelligent design to co-workers, according to a discrimination lawsuit filed in California Superior Court. The lawsuit (case number #BC435600) was filed by David Coppedge, an information technology specialist and system administrator on JPL’s Cassini mission to Saturn, the Read More ›
This article, published by The Atlantic, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: … Wesley Smith at First Things: “Nebraska’s new law seems entirely reasonable to me, particularly since 20 weeks is potentially (barely) within the potential viability time period… No other right is absolute–even those expressly stated in the U.S. Constitution and not based on ‘penumbras.’ Abortion shouldn’t be either.” The Read More ›
So what, in the end, can be said for Darwin's Sacred Cause? To Desmond and Moore's credit, they do a fine job of explaining how Darwin ended, pretty much once and for all, the old monogenist/polygenist controversy over human origins. But, as mentioned earlier, this was already known. Their critical thesis, namely, that Darwin's anti-slavery views were integral to the development of his evolutionary theory remains questionable, but perhaps more significantly, irrelevant.
Read More ›What is the proper Christian view toward “animal rights?” That depends on how one defines the term. Christians—like all people—certainly have the duty to treat animals humanely and with proper standards of care. But that is properly called animal welfare, not animal rights. So what’s the difference between animal welfare and animal rights? Animal welfare acknowledges that humans have unique dignity and value. In Read More ›