Original article Last month’s United States Supreme Court decision in the Kelo v. New London case strikes at the heart of our freedoms and, if left unchallenged, imperils our right to life itself. How do we derive such a broad threat from this private property case? Let’s look at the conclusions of the court. In the Kelo decision, the Read More ›
The New York Times had an editorial the other day about a highly paid corporate CEO who was charged with questionable accounting practices. “He knew what the law was,” it said, “but he thought the law was wrong. He thought that gave him the right to disregard the law. America does not work that way. If we don’t like a Read More ›
Assume you decided to build a new home and contracted with a builder to construct it for $300,000. Several months later, after the basement is finished, the builder comes back and says, “I underestimated my costs, and the house will now cost $900,000.” Would you pay the additional amount?
Assume you ordered a new car from a dealer for an agreed upon $20,000 price. Two weeks later, the dealer calls and says the car will now cost $60,000. Would you pay more?
In both the above cases, you would refuse to pay the additional amount, because in the real world of competitive private sellers and buyers, such behavior by a seller would be unacceptable. However, what we find unacceptable behavior in our private dealings becomes the norm when dealing with government.
Read More ›Seattle, July 13 – Discovery Institute Senior Fellow for Technology and Society John C. Wohlstetter is pleased to announce the launch of his online diary, Letter from The Capitol. A true renaissance man, Wohlstetter will offer his insights on topics as diverse as D.C. politics, the war on terrorism, and jazz. “For years, John has provided fascinating commentary for a Read More ›
SEATTLE, JULY 12 – “The mainstream media in the U.S. and Russia do a poor job of reporting on issues that impact U.S. / Russian relations – attributable in part to the limited amount of space in most major newspapers,” said Yuri Mamchur, a Foreign Policy Fellow at Discovery Institute and a Russian national. “So we’ve launched Russiablog to report Read More ›
SEATTLE – Discovery Institute has filed a public records request with the Ohio State University (OSU) seeking all documents related to Darwinist attacks on OSU doctoral candidate Bryan Leonard. The request was submitted under the Ohio Public Records Act. In June, Leonard’s dissertation defense in the area of science education was suddenly postponed after three Darwinist professors at OSU attacked Leonard’s Read More ›
NOTE: This letter is a response to a letter published last week in the Ames Tribune. Click here to access a PDF of the original letter. It is well known among rhetoricians that to resort to ad hominem attack is to admit you have no valid argument against your opponent’s position. This is precisely what Mr. Patterson does in his Read More ›
In July of 2005 The New York Times published an opinion by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna who was the lead editor of the official 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church. In a rare instance of a newspaper reporting on its own editorial page, the Times’ published a front-page article Saturday about Schönborn’s piece where he explained that Read More ›
Background Note by Discovery InstituteBryan Leonard is a doctoral candidate in science education at Ohio State University (OSU) whose academic freedom has been under attack. For the past several weeks, Darwinists have been waging an outrageous public disinformation campaign against Leonard in an apparent effort to prevent him from succesfully defending his dissertation. For more information on Bryan Leonard’s plight, Read More ›
Letter to the editor: In her Aug. 24 commentary, “Stick to Science, ISU,” Rekha Basu writes about an anti-intelligent design petition led by Hector Avalos, an associate professor of religious studies at Iowa State University and faculty adviser to the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society. Basu noted that I’m a national leader in the ID movement who “has said publicly Read More ›