If Barack Obama wins the White House and the Democrats also take enough new Senate seats to get to a 60-vote supermajority, they will be able to force floor votes by invoking “cloture” to end a GOP filibuster. To grasp the impact of such an event, it is important to understand how the workings of the House and Senate differ. Read More ›
The real source of all growth is human ingenuity and entrepreneurship, which often thrive in the worst of times—and are always surprising. Knowledge is about the past; entrepreneurship is about the future. In a crisis the world of expertise pulls the global economy ever deeper into the past, where accountant-economists ruminate on the labyrinthine statistics of leviathan trade gaps, tides Read More ›
Bryan Leonard was a graduate student at Ohio State University whose dissertation defense was derailed by intolerant Darwinists who disagreed with his skeptical views of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
This article, published by The Week, quotes Yuri Mamchur of Discovery Institute:
Read More ›“Unless there is a new effort by Moscow, the ball is now in Obama’s court,” said Yuri Mamchur in Russia Blog. But the truth is that, with their financial meltdowns, “neither of the two countries needs (or can afford) a new missile system in Europe.”
Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom … What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth: that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired for the crime of merely believing that Read More ›
I had a telling conversation with an old friend several months ago, a devoted environmentalist who’s a community college biology teacher living south of San Francisco in a pleasant small town abutting the Pacific. I don’t recall how it came up, but she declared, “We’ve just got to get more people out of their cars.” Then came a pregnant pause, Read More ›
This article, published by the Associated Baptist Press, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer and Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute: One of them, Stephen Meyer, is vice president of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based group that advocates balancing evolution with teaching about “intelligent design.” … Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs at the Discovery Institute’s Read More ›
The segment aired several times during morning drive, and featured Cascadia Center’s Director, Bruce Agnew. Link to mp3 audio
Discovery Fellow Wesley J. Smith appeared on WBAI radio in New York. The link is available here: http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/081026_120001btpale.MP3
The Human Life Foundation honored Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith with the 2008 Great Defender of Human Life Award on Thursday, October 16, 2008, in New York City. “I am so humbled and honored to be named a Great Defender of Life by the Human Life Foundation in recognition of my efforts to prevent the legalization of assisted Read More ›