During World War II, when the 1944 presidential election came around, Republican candidates targeted Franklin D. Roosevelt’s competency and motives. They unearthed government procurement scandals and corporate “war profiteering.” Some even hinted that FDR was complicit in the war’s outbreak. But they could not oppose the war they had voted for and the public approved. They whooped up political excitement, Read More ›
President Bush’s economic team can rightfully be proud of their policies that produced the sizzling 8.2 percent real economic growth in the last quarter. But before they get too high on their own accomplishments, they need to look at the history of those who began to feel infallible in their economic policymaking. The Nixon economic team produced strong growth numbers Read More ›
MEDIA BIAS is alive and well and busily promoting the brave new world. I personally experienced the phenomenon recently when I participated in an educational symposium in Frankfort, Kentucky (along with Drs. David Prentice and John Hubert). Our purpose was to provide empirical and moral support for pending state legislation that would outlaw human cloning in Kentucky. (Similar laws have Read More ›
The conventional wisdom is our federal government deficit is too large. However, the empirical evidence suggests the deficit might be too small. When people worry about the size of the deficit, they are not worried about the deficit in a particular year; what they are worried about is the accumulation of debt that needs to be serviced. Some years, most Read More ›
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The president of the state school board says the scientific process matters more than the subject matter in any particular lesson plan. The board was set to vote on last-minute changes Tuesday to lesson plans on evolution to address concerns of scientists lobbying the board over their content, said board president Jennifer Sheets. The board’s standards committee Read More ›
Fifteen years ago, how many Americans or Bulgarians would have imagined that in 2003 Bulgaria would be one of America’s closest allies in Europe, that Bulgarian and American troops would be serving together in Iraq and that Bulgaria would have a smartly growing market economy? How did this change from Cold War enemies to new NATO allies come about, and Read More ›
original article (subscription to The Wall Street Journal required to access article) Apart from its steel tariffs, the Bush Administration’s biggest economic blunder has been the hash it has made of telecom regulation. The good news is that a federal court has just handed the White House a chance to make amends. The opportunity comes courtesy of a Tuesday D.C. Read More ›
MANY WHO SUPPORT Terri Schiavo’s threatened dehydration assert that removing a feeding tube from a profoundly cognitively disabled person results in a painless and gentle ending. But is this really true? After all, it would be agonizing if you or I were locked in a room for two weeks and deprived of all food and water. So, why should we Read More ›
Original Article A heated issue most Ohioans thought was settled more than a year ago – how the origins and development of life will be taught in science classes – is again causing controversy. At the center, again, is the concept of “intelligent design,” which proposes that some higher intelligence played a role. Evolutionary scientists scoff at the notion, calling Read More ›
The State Board of Education is still on course to do what it promised 14 months ago: approve a lesson plan for the teaching of biology that requires students to examine what the theory of evolution can explain and what it cannot. The loudest critics of the standards, scientists among them, portray this as a disaster. Critics of the theory Read More ›