Los Angeles Times opinion columnist Ronald Brownstein writes that the Western U.S. is poised to lead on alternative energy. The "sagebrush rebellion" resource extraction push of decades past has given way to "a renewable revolution" bearing both real promise and all the expected consumer cost caveats, Brownstein posits.
Read More ›This article, published by The Christian Post, mentions Discovery Institute: In response to SMU science professors protests against next weeks Darwin vs. Design conference on campus, Bruce Chapman, president of the Discovery Institute, sent a letter to the chairs of three departments at the school. The rest of the article can be found here.
As the congressional debate over embryonic stem cell research reignites after the Easter recess, few will recall the passing anniversary of another great bioethics debate. Only one century ago, eugenics the attempt to improve the human race through better breeding was all the rage in the scientific world. And this spring marks the centenary of the world’s first Read More ›
Copyright (c) 2007 First Things (March 2007). When thousands of furious Muslims rallied in the streets of the West Bank, Pakistan, and Indonesia to protest Benedict XVIs Regensburg address, many commentators spoke with pessimistic alarm about the clash of civilizations that had now become increasingly manifest. The reason for this peril, it was claimed, was religion of any kind. Thus, Read More ›
This article, published by The Christian Post, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay W. Richards: One ID proponent, Jay Richards, research fellow of the Acton Institute and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, recently spoke at a recent “Darwin vs. Design” conference in Knoxville, Tenn. … Apart from his busy schedule, Richards Read More ›
Are you absolutely sure you paid the exact amount of income tax you owed last year — not too much and not too little? I am willing to bet the vast majority of those reading this paid either too much or too little — not because they intended to but because the tax code is so complex it is almost Read More ›
This article, published by BeliefNet, mentions a presentation by Discovery Institute: My colleague Jeff Weiss had a nice piece in the Dallas Morning News this weekend about members of the faculty at Southern Methodist University up in arms over a planned presentation of intelligent design theory on campus. The Discovery Institute of Seattle is the presenter, and the program is Read More ›
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Orin Hatch have just introduced Senate Bill 812, which explicitly legalizes human cloning and—since a shortage of human eggs is currently impeding human cloning research (one egg is needed for each attempt at cloning)—the bill also authorizes researchers to pay women to undergo egg procurement. And if the purpose of the legislation wasn’t bad enough, there’s Read More ›
What is the world’s largest private company and how did it get that way? The company is Koch Industries. Its revenues in 2006 were about $90 billion, up from only $70 million in 1960. Charles Koch, who, along with his brother, David, built this massive and very successful enterprise — which includes petroleum refining, chemicals, fibers and carpets, fertilizers, building Read More ›