THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 71 in California (the Stem Cell Research and Cures Act) was an acute case of electoral folly. As Californians plunged headlong into a $6 billion quagmire of debt in a quixotic quest for “miracle cures” from human cloning and embryonic stem cells, they simultaneously rejected Prop. 67, an initiative that would have added a modest tax Read More ›
The international euthanasia movement’s first principle is radical individualism. The idea is that we each own our own body and hence should be able to do what we choose with our physical self—including destroy it. Not only that, but if we want to die, liberty dictates that we should have ready access to a “good death,” a demise that is Read More ›
EVER SINCE President Bush limited federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to existing cell lines, the mainstream media has obsessed about the perpetual political campaign to overturn his policy. But this is a mere dustup, a tempest in a teapot compared to the far more consequential story begging to be told of the radical and ambitious political agenda being pursued Read More ›
Original article THE FRANKENFOOD MYTH: HOW PROTEST AND POLITICS THREATEN THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION BY HENRY I. MILLER AND GREGORY CONKO PRAEGER PUBLISHERS, 296 PAGES, $39.95 HENRY I. Miller and Gregory Conko are true believers in the power of biotechnology in agriculture to improve life as it generates bounteous profits for innovative companies with the vision to invent and develop “superior” Read More ›
NOV. 12, 2004 – “In courts of law, material issues of fact are decided on the evidence, not motives,” says Seth Cooper, an expert on the legal aspects of teaching evolution. “But the ACLU continues to insist on making this Cobb Co. disclaimer case about motives. Why don’t they deal with the evidence?” The disclaimer case is a lawsuit brought Read More ›
Discovery Institute’s opposition to the Dover School District policy on intelligent design has been highlighted in an Associated Press story by reporter Martha Raffaele: “…the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which supports scientists studying intelligent-design theory, opposes mandating it in schools because it is a relatively new concept, said John West, associate director of the institute’s Center for Science and Culture. “We’re Read More ›
NOV. 11, 2004 – “Either this attorney threw the case on purpose,” says legal analyst Seth Cooper, an expert on the legal aspects of teaching evolution, “or he simply doesn’t know what he was doing. This was a textbook case. Literally. And he blew it.” The defense mounted this week by the Cobb Co. School District’s attorney Linwood Gunn is Read More ›
Back in 1984, if you had bet Bulgaria would in 2004 host a convention of European free market think tanks including many from what were then communist countries, you probably would have been given very good odds. Yet during the last days of October, a remarkable conference — the First European Resource Bank — was held in the pleasant ski Read More ›
NOV. 9, 2004 – The actions of the Cobb Co. School District’s attorney Linwood Gunn are being publicly questioned by legal experts wondering why he is not mounting a more aggressive defense of his client. “The ACLU called a noted scientist to the stand during the first day of the trial, and the School District’s attorneys have decided not to Read More ›
Original Article With the election over, work is resuming after a five-month hiatus on a regional transportation package to present to voters, perhaps next fall. But Tuesday’s vote dramatically altered the political context in which that work will be done. Among the significant changes: By a 2-to-1 ratio, King County voters said yes to an advisory measure that asked Read More ›