This article, published by Seattle PI, is about Slade Gorton of Discovery Institute: Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, who lost his seat in 2000 thanks to King County voters, is to be honored by the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors with their 72nd annual “First Citizen” award. The rest of the article can be found here.
Should animals, like indigent criminal defendants, be provided with legal representation by the state? It could happen. As Time has reported, on March 7, voters in Switzerland will decide whether to give “domestic creatures . . . the constitutional right to be represented by (human) lawyers in court.” What? Treating animals at law as if they were human? Don’t laugh. Lest we be Read More ›
This article, published by The New York Times, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John G. West: John G. West, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute in Seattle, a group that advocates intelligent design and has led the campaign for teaching critiques of evolution in the schools, said that the institute was not specifically promoting opposition to accepted science on Read More ›
The United States Supreme Court issued a decision that may result in profound changes in the conduct of future elections. During the political campaigns of 2008, a nonprofit organization named Citizens United produced a 90-minute movie titled “Hillary: The Movie,” which is very critical of Hillary Clinton. Citizens United wanted to run the movie during the campaign, but the Federal Read More ›
Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term “animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But although animal rights groups do Read More ›
[Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from a series of posts originally posted on Evolution News and Views. The originals may be seen here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8.] I. Introduction Not long before the beginning of the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, then-National Center for Science Education staff Read More ›
The 5 Big Lies About American Business: Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy—by Michael Medved (Crown Forum, $26.99). Must reading for the White House and every anticapitalist politician, pundit and economist. Employing a mother lode of facts, Medved, with verve and wit, thoroughly demolishes five myths about business: capitalism is dying because of the economic crisis; when the rich get Read More ›
Al Gore seems to have thawed out from the deep freeze that descended over Copenhagen in early December. In light of the embarrassing failure of the Copenhagen climate summit, the string of scientific blunders issued by the UN’S Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the scandalous behavior revealed in the Climategate documents, a well-grounded person might sound a little penitent. Read More ›
This article, published by Humane Watch, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith’s book A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: When Wesley J. Smith first told me he was thinking of writing a book about the animal rights movement, my initial reaction was one of very cautious optimism. … Happily, my worries Read More ›
