AUSTIN, Texas (BP)–In a case that has both sides claiming victory, the Texas State Board of Education has adopted a series of high school biology textbooks that had been criticized for inaccuracies involving evolution. The board voted 11-4 on Nov. 7 to adopt improved texts for the next seven years, which evolutionists claimed as a major victory. Still, the Seattle-based Read More ›
AUSTIN – Biology books in Texas will continue to present the origin of life according to the theories of Charles Darwin. The State Board of Education gave final approval Friday to 11 biology books, among others, despite a major campaign to poke holes in Darwin’s theory of evolution as presented in the textbooks. School districts in Texas will be able Read More ›
Looking back on three weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom, dozens of thoughts, vignettes really, about what has transpired create a mosaic that is nothing short of remarkable. And like at the end of the Cold War, one already hears rumblings from the chattering class as to the inevitability of it all — as if the months of uncertainty building up Read More ›
Discovery Senior Fellow Richard Rahn, a prominent economist who writes regularly in the Washington Times, will appear on the CNBC program “Kudlow & Cramer” tonight at 5 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Pacific. CNBC is on Comcast channel 46 in the Seattle area. To find out your local cable listings, click here.
As the military battle for Iraq comes to an end, a new battle is beginning – how to rebuild Iraq. On one side are those who believe that, by establishing the proper institutions and rules, the Iraqis will be able to rather quickly rebuild their own economy without placing a burden on U.S. taxpayers. The other side, primarily led by Read More ›
With charter schools almost a legislative reality in Washington State, don’t miss the chance to hear Discovery board member and charter school advocate Jim Spady talk about the promise of these schools for children. He will be participating in an hour-long discussion on Seattle’s KUOW 94.9 FM station on charter schools tomorrow, April 10, from 10 to 11 a.m. If Read More ›
For weeks we have been trying to figure out what the State Board of Education should do about proposed revisions to high school biology textbooks. The board will meet tomorrow and Friday to vote on a series of textbooks that activists, including some scientists, say provide inaccurate and misleading information about Darwin’s theory of evolution — a charge that, if true, Read More ›
IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY clear that the bio-anarchists leading the charge to Brave New World want a virtually unlimited license to engage in human cloning. The proof is in the legislation they keep trying to pass. It is bad enough that in Washington, senators Orin Hatch, Republican of Utah, and Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, have introduced the Human Cloning Read More ›
Internet search firm Google can do no wrong. It is Amazon, eBay, Reuters, and Britannica all in one. It has low-end disruptive technology, a popular primary-color brand, an advertising model that works, and profits — nine quarters in a row. It entered a cluttered space late and still cleaned up. It even writes better modern poetry than humans. For these Read More ›