The Grantsburg, Wis., school district has changed its controversial policy on the teaching of evolution to clarify that creationism and the theory of intelligent design will not be taught in class. School Board members approved the new version Monday evening on a 6-1 vote. Superintendent Joni Burgin said they rewrote the policy to make sure it was legally sound and Read More ›
DEC. 7, 2004 – After weeks of public debate, by a vote of 6-1 the school board of Grantsburg, Wisconsin adopted a revised policy on the teaching of evolution at a special meeting on December 6, which states that “Students shall be able to explain the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory,” The new policy makes clear that the Read More ›
The dollar has fallen about 35 percent against the euro over the last three years. What in practical terms does the fall mean, how important is it, and what should be done? Three years ago, the typical American worker had to work about 15 minutes to earn enough after taxes to buy a “Big Mac Meal” in either the U.S. Read More ›
The Privileged Planet Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, 444 pages, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2004; ISBN 0-89526-065-4; hardcover, $27.95. Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The Privileged Planet gives a new spin to the argument that conditions on Earth are essentially unique. Authors Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards suggest Earth was designed for scientific discovery. They introduce Read More ›
Original Article On Feb. 24-25, Microsoft Corp. hosted a major conference on transportation and technology in Redmond. The first day focused on “breaking gridlock with technology,” and the second day on “dealing with a rising tide of freight.” Lead organizers of the event were Bruce Agnew of the Cascadia Center and John Niles of Global Telematics. In a debriefing on Read More ›
Original article Should California give its citizens a right to die? Earlier this month, Assembly members Patty Berg, D-Eureka, and Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys (Los Angeles County), introduced a bill that would allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults with less than six months to live to end their own lives legally. It is patterned after Oregon’s voter-approved law, which went Read More ›
Original Article Intelligent design, which holds that only an unspecified superior intellect can account for the complexity of life forms, is increasingly appearing in science forums and journals as an alternative to evolution theory. Evolution has been widely accepted in scientific circles ever since Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species revolutionised biological sciences 145 years ago. But the new theory’s support Read More ›
On Nov. 18, in a speech given at the Finance Ministry in Vienna, Austria, the very highly regarded European economist and first woman president of the Mont Pelerin Society, Professor Victoria Curzon Price, called for eliminating the corporate income tax. There, in the center of socialist Europe, was not only the call to get rid of this destructive tax, but Read More ›
Darwinism, Design, and Public Education by John Angus Campbell and Stephen Meyer, eds. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 634 pages, five appendices, glossary. Paperback; $27.95. ISBN: 0-87013-675-5. This book, part of MSU’s Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series, is a collection of twenty-six essays dealing with the controversy engendered by the push to teach Intelligent Design (ID) alongside Read More ›
Original Article There’s hope for those caught in daily congestion — if we make the necessary hard decisions. A conference last week, sponsored by Microsoft and the Cascadia Center at Discovery Institute, a private, nonprofit public policy group, attracted 200 local and national transportation experts to Redmond. While participants didn’t pull any punches about the problem, there are ways to Read More ›