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Deficits make for great newspaper headlines: “U.S. Trade Deficit Continues to Grow” or “Greenspan Warns About Federal Budget Deficit.” Yet one deficit—perhaps equal to the others in its impact on our economic health and future prosperity—is often minimized or overlooked. It is that of our national and regional infrastructure, from energy to transportation. Discovery’s Cascadia Center has long recognized this Read More ›

This article, published by Human Events, mentions Discovery Institute: The Discovery Institute recently produced a list of over 400 scientists of varying faith and non-faith——including those from such prestigious institutions as Princeton, MIT and Cornell——who signed onto a statement stressing they were “skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of Read More ›

These two letters, published by The Daily Telegraph, are about Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer’s article in the Daily Telegraph: Sir – Stephen Meyer’s article (Opinion, January 28) on intelligent design was a thoughtful and calm outline of the background to the debate. Professor Colin Reeves Sir – Most readers of books by Michael Behe or William Dembski find Read More ›

In a speech at Georgetown University on January 18th, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threw down the gauntlet at the State Department bureaucracy by expounding “transformational diplomacy” to shift the priority and direction of the department in the post-modern, post-Cold War era. Noting that the State Department has almost as many employees in Germany, with a population of 82 million, Read More ›

Original Article When Adolf Eichmann was on trial in Jerusalem, his attorney, Robert Servatius, insisted that Eichmann had not really borne responsibility for “killings by gas, and similar medical matters.” Judge Halevi thought that this reference to killings by gas as a “medical matter” must have been a slip of the tongue. No, replied Servatius: “It was indeed a medical Read More ›

Would you be willing to give up all of your tax deductions — state and local taxes, mortgage interest, church and charitable contributions, etc. — in exchange for sharply lower tax rates? With the return of Congress, the debate is about to begin again. One major obstacle to tax reform is the confusion in the minds of most Americans (and Read More ›

On Wednesday, January 18th, Dave Earling gave testimony in Olympia to both the House and Senate Transportation Committees. He was part of a panel with former Senator Slade Gorton and Mike Vaska. As the Legislature considers action on four pieces of legislation on transportation reform in Puget Sound. Earling spoke in favor of reform and highlighted three projects that the Read More ›

Three years ago, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack signed a law banning all human cloning (both for research and for reproduction). But he has just shifted his position 180 degrees, calling upon the state’s legislature to legalize human cloning for biomedical research. But rather than just admit he was wrong to sign the original bill, he has instead lied about the Read More ›