Original Article Conservative group says network got it wrong in reporting on challenges to the exclusive teaching of Darwinian evolution in schools. CNN has been accused of distorting a conservative think-tank’s position on how children should be taught about the origins of life. At issue is a recent report suggesting there’s a national movement under way to fire teachers who Read More ›
“I am from the government and I am here to help you,” is a well-known oxymoron again proving to be true. A decade ago, we had a mean Internal Revenue Service that did all sorts of terrible and unjustified things to innocent taxpayers. The people got mad, and the people’s representatives — the House and the Senate — held hearings Read More ›
A group turning to trains to improve transportation in Snohomish County has set its sights on a little-used rail line on the Eastside. The group, made up of residents and elected leaders and backed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Project, is trying to bring a new kind of high-speed rail car to the Puget Sound region. Burlington Northern Santa Read More ›
Consumers Guide to aBrave New World,by Wesley J. Smith(Encounter, 219 pp., $25.95) Leo Strauss found it telling that Machiavelli mentioned only one other figure who served as the teacher of princes, the office that Machiavelli was claiming for himself. And that was Chiron the centaur, who was aptly constituted to be a tutor of princes because he was half man, Read More ›
OriginalA new website designed to help teachers teach evolution encourages the use of religion when arguing in favor of the theory and uses federal tax dollars to do so. The site, Understanding Evolution, was developed in part using a $450,000 grants from the National Science Foundation. According to a statement from the Discovery Institute, the website was put together jointly Read More ›
CLONING ADVOCATES are playing a shell game with the American people. At the federal level, they advocate the legalization of human cloning but assert that cloned embryos should be destroyed after 14 days of development and never implanted in wombs (the Hatch / Feinstein Bill). But this is a diversionary political tactic. Hatch / Feinstein’s true purpose is to prevent Read More ›
original article WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court has refused to reconsider its decision that regulators mistakenly insulated cable companies that offer high-speed Internet from extensive regulations, like providing consumers a choice of Internet service providers. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in October that the Federal Communications Commission should have Read More ›
SEATTLE, APRIL 1 — The federal government has spent nearly a half-million dollars on a website that encourages science teachers to use religion to promote evolution, sparking objections that the website violates the separation of church and state. Unveiled earlier this year, the Understanding Evolution website was jointly developed by the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a private group Read More ›
Original Article Another remarkable intersection of religion and film culture took place recently during the press interviews at the premiere of the final installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King. John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli the Dwarf, departed from the normal PC Hollywood script about multiculturalism, environmentalism, “spirituality” and so forth and, when asked Read More ›
The Cascadia Center at Discovery Institute is a member of the Governor’s 2010 Olympics Committee formed to explore economic development, transportation and tourism opportunities for Washington State surrounding the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C.________________________________________________________________It took a group effort for Vancouver to earn the right to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. And the man who’s running the Read More ›