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The Vermont legislature has fast-tracked a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and California may not be far behind. If the legislatures in these states do vote to redefine physician-assisted suicide as a legitimate and legal “medical treatment,” a large part of the blame, strange though it may sound, can be laid at the feet of postmodernism. The deconstruction of language, Read More ›

This article, published by The Seattle Times, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: “Look ahead, and maybe we will see the opportunity for Canadian trains to come to Seattle,” Agnew said, “like the Whistler Mountaineer or the Canadian Rocky Mountain passenger train.” The rest of the article can be found here.

“Choice” my foot: If  the new bill to legalize assisted suicide in California (A.B. 374) becomes law, Catholic nursing homes will be legally required to permit assisted suicide to be committed within their premises, even though doing so would be a profound violation of Catholic moral teaching. In-patient hospice facilities would be similarly coerced, despite assisted suicide being a direct affront to Read More ›

Many Darwinists are currently making much noise on their blogs and at movie screenings, trying to rewrite history by claiming that Haeckel’s embryo drawings were never used in modern textbooks. In a contradictory claim, some then concede that modern textbooks have used the drawings but argue that Haeckel’s work was only cited to provide some historical context to evolutionary theory—they Read More ›

This article, published by The Seattle Times, quotes the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: The Cascadia Center for Regional Development, affiliated with the free-market think-tank Discovery Institute, wrote to the Port Commission on Monday that tearing out BNSF’s existing rails to make way for a hiking and biking trail “is a luxury we believe this region … cannot afford” The Read More ›

Do you think those who have reservations about whether man is creating global warming should lose their jobs and be denied the right to present their views? Over the last few months, there has been a concerted effort to silence those who have doubts about global warming and man’s effect on the climate. The Oregon State climatologist was fired for Read More ›

THE ENEMY AT HOME: THE CULTURAL LEFT AND ITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR 9/11BY DINESH D’SOUZADOUBLEDAY, 333 PAGES, $26.95 CONSERVATIVES are as deeply factionalized as any other domestic ideological group. But it’s still surprising when one of our own writes a book that manages to make him not only the scourge of the Left but hardly more popular on the Right. Such Read More ›

Original Article DOHA, Qatar. Is there something inherent in Islam that has resulted in most Muslims living in poor countries, with the exception of the relatively few who live in the oil rich states? This was just one of the questions a group of American and Islamic scholars and experts were trying to answer in Doha, Qatar, last week. Qatar Read More ›

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEATTLE, Wash. The Cascadia Center for Regional Development applauded the announcement from British Columbia Transport Minister Kevin Falcon to provide $4.5 million in provincial funding for an infrastructure project that will bring a second daily Amtrak passenger train between Seattle and Vancouver (see attached release). Since 1994, when former Congressman Al Swift’s leadership helped renew passenger rail Read More ›