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State, King County, City Should Keep Tunnel Option

Cascadia Center has sent a letter to Governor Gregoire, King County Executive Ron Sims, and Mayor Greg Nickels, urging full inclusion of sub-surface options to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. In the letter, Cascadia, a longtime supporter of surface transit options, writes, "Surface transit options can be a part of a short-term solution. But lasting, long-term solutions can best be found in sub-surface scenarios." Read the full article here. Read More ›

Rogues and Prorogues in Canada

The Canadian media are filled with the exciting story of a possible, even likely, removal of the Conservative government after only six weeks’ tenure since October’s parliamentary election. Conservatives, with 46% of the seats in Parliament, still lack a majority and now the other parties—the Liberals (who have about a quarter of the seats, the New Democrats (NDP) and the Read More ›

America’s Four Super-9/11s in Sight

In 2008 America, after going through the shock of September 2001 — memorialized as “9/11” and signaling the launching of a new phase in the emerging war of survival between militant Islam and the West, was hit in 2008 with three more 9/11s, within three months: soaring oil prices that topped $4 per gallon, thus swelling the coffers of countries Read More ›

Chabad Haven

Just when you thought the terrorists had run out of novel ways to explore the depths of evil and stupidity, the Mumbai murderers decided to seize the Chabad House in that city and slaughter the rabbi and his wife. To understand what executing Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg means in moral and spiritual terms, you need to appreciate what Chabad Read More ›

How Not to Help the Poor

Discovery Senior Fellow George Gilder is briefly featured in the Acton Institute’s “Effective Stewardship” curriculum video “How Not to Help the Poor.” To learn more about the series, visit www.effectivestewardship.com.

Iran’s Other Nuclear Threat to U.S.

This article, published by The Washington Examiner, refers to Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John Wohlstetter: John Wohlstetter, author of “The Long War Ahead – and the Short War Upon Us,” agrees, and wonders whether the new administration will be up to the challenge … The rest of the article can be found here.