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If the August 2007 implosion of the subprime mortgage lending market signaled the impending burst of the housing asset bubble, the March 2008 collapse of the old-line investment banking firm Bear Stearns & Co. heralded the stock market crash and global financial crash of 2008. Cohan is an ex-investment banker who previously published a history of the investment-banking firm Lazard Read More ›

TO: Texas State Board of Education FROM: Ralph Seelke, Professor of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Superior SUBJECT: Response to David Hillis’ comments on my research DATE: March 23, 2009 This is in response to Dr. David Hillis’ comments at the January 21 meeting of the Texas State Board of Education concerning my research on evolution. As you may recall, I have Read More ›

This article, published by Crosswalk, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: Ominously, Wesley J. Smith has documented the “growing utilitarian emphasis in medicine,” in which saving money increasingly takes precedence over “doing right by suffering patients.” The rest of the article can be found here.

From the moment President George W. Bush imposed federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, Big Biotech, patient advocacy groups, celebrities and the media have been obsessed with eviscerating the policy. Indeed, although the Bush administration funded about $175 million in grants for human embryonic stem cell research, and despite the literally billions poured into the field from public Read More ›

The editorial ‘Too many posers’ in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer assails the majority Democrats in the Washington State Legislature for not following through on their promise to adopt green “cap and trade” legislation. It would have been much better for them to respond to the recession by committing political suicide, apparently. It was a perfectly pitched swan song for the unfailingly liberal voice of Seattle’s Read More ›

Students and faculty who care about open debate should be aware of a revealing postscript to the Ben Stein imbroglio at UVM. An entertainer and a legal scholar, Stein was first invited to be this year’s graduation speaker. Then, because he has criticized Darwinian evolution, he was pressured by University President Daniel Mark Fogel to withdraw, and he graciously did Read More ›