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VIEWS Winter 2006

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The Winter 2006 issue of Discovery Institute Views is now available. Click here to download a PDF version of this informative newsletter. Also, you can view the Summer 2005 issue here.

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March 1, 2006
Intelligent Design

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Nature’s Book Shelved

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March 1, 2006
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Click here to read the article as a PDF file. (7.28 MB) Does nature provide evidence of a cosmic maker? The answer of the religious skeptic is obvious: No. An essay in Scientific American communicates this view sarcastically, poking fun at a Georgia public-school textbook sticker warning students that evolution is just a theory. Confident that neo-Darwinism provides a thoroughly Read More ›

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March 1, 2006
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Transport Czar or Things as They Are?

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March 1, 2006
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As director of the Cascadia regional planning project at Seattles Discovery Institute, (Bruce) Agnew is a leading advocate of a plan that might answer that question and a host of larger concerns. If the plan flies, you might one dayperhaps as soon as 2007phone a new Regional Transportation Accountability Board. This powerful, unifying paymaster would make sure funds are well spent, projects are coordinated and traffic disruptions are minimized. It would oversee a long list of highway, transit, freight and possibly ferry improvements, picking projects for performance, not parochial political advantage. Rather than running these systems itself, it would contract with operators such as King County Metro. To fund all this, it would have the critical authority to levy taxes and highway tolls. We need a single point of accountability, says Agnew. Read More ›

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March 1, 2006
Foreign Policy

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The Roadblock To Beijing Runs Through New Delhi

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March 1, 2006
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President Bush is in India this week for the first time, a historic trip that is long overdue. Although terrorism, trade and technology will be major discussion topics with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the rise of China cannot be far from the minds of both men and their respective defense establishments. China’s rapid economic rise and military buildup pose Read More ›

^{Joel Connelly
February 28, 2006
Cascadia

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Holes In Port Security Can Cost Us Dearly

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February 28, 2006
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How much money is proposed for port security grants in President Bush's budget for the coming year? Zero....In a nationwide review, under the Maritime Security Act, the Coast Guard identified $7.4 billion in port security upgrades needed in the next decade. Our congressional delegation and other coastal lawmakers have fought hard to appropriate at least $400 million a year to meet these needs. They managed to get $175 million last year ...money for the ports of New York-Newark, Los Angeles-Long Beach and Seattle-Tacoma was held up by the administration. Money was released only after Murray blocked Senate confirmation of a top presidential appointment. Nor, tellingly, did Homeland Security say a word about West Coast ports -- the real stepchildren of federal neglect. "Fifty percent of freight coming into America comes to West Coast ports. Yet only 20 percent of federal infrastructure money comes here. We are undernourished from the get-go," said Bruce Agnew of the Discovery Institute's Cascadia Center. Read More ›

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February 28, 2006
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Transportation Washington February 2006 Newsletter

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February 28, 2006
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Central Puget Sound One Step Closer to Joint Highway and Transit Plan When it comes to tackling transportation challenges, we at the Cascadia Center have long advocated regional cooperation. And with its rapidly rising population and worsening congestion, Central Puget Sound is especially in need of a coordinated solution—similar to what has already worked in Vancouver, B.C., Denver, and San Read More ›

^{Bret Swanson
February 26, 2006
Technology

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My View: Our Biggest Obstacle To Real Broadband

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February 26, 2006
Technology

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Ten years ago, Washington gave us the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The law’s complex and intrusive implementation by the Federal Communications Commission and the 51 state utility commissions resulted in the $3 trillion technology crash of 2000-02 and has now plunged the U.S. to 16th in the world in residential broadband rankings. Yet for Hoosiers, hope abounds. Indiana is possibly Read More ›

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February 24, 2006
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Keep Philosophies Out of the Classroom — Or Let Both In

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Original Article In Kansas, in recent months, there has been much discussion about the theory of evolution versus the theory of Intelligent Design. The discussion has become quite intense with the proponents of evolution claiming that Intelligent Design theorists were attempting to bring theology and philosophy into the science laboratory. Last week, in this space, I discussed the relationship between Read More ›

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February 24, 2006
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Darwin’s Jews

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February 24, 2006
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A sophisticated debate about Darwinian evolution is going on at the topmost levels of the Catholic Church. In the Jewish community, however, the discussion remains mostly primitive and ill informed. Surely this embarrassing state of affairs can be corrected, and I have a suggestion. Read More ›