Primitive Party Animals
Since the 1976 presidential election, the Democrats have not received more than 50 percent of the popular vote. Most organisms, except for very primitive ones, usually modify their behavior after repeated failure in order to survive. Much has been written about why the Democrats continue to fail in the polls. But as an economist, I have been particularly struck by Read More ›
A Political Survival Guide for Red-Leaning Blue-Staters
Even before the Nov. 2 election, when I cast my first presidential vote as a naturalized American, I was a man of faith. No, not that kind of faith every pundit seems to be writing about these days — I don’t even attend church or any other house of worship. I mean that I had faith President Bush would be Read More ›
Panelists Look At Methods, Technology To Help Break Through Traffic Gridlock
Original Article REDMOND — Bus transit is not sold as a first-class way to get to work in America, and that’s a key hangup hampering traffic here and everywhere, panelists agreed at a transportation conference Thursday. But in places such as Vancouver, British Columbia, marketing has overcome the car-is-king attitude. “We’ve gone from 10 percent to 12 percent market share Read More ›
Book Review: Design Theory and its Critics
Suckers For ‘Science’
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 ›
Noxious Nitschke
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 ›
Big Biotech’s Voracious Appetite
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 ›
Eat This Now
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 ›
ACLU Should Follow the Evidence Where it Leads, in Law and in Science
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 ›