Who is the biggest provider of foreign aid? The World Bank? The International Monetary Fund (IMF)? The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)? The right answer is none of the above. The single biggest provider of foreign aid is the more than 10 million American immigrants and migrant workers who send back a portion of their earnings to their home Read More ›
Original article [Note: John Miller is the immediate past president of the board of directors at Discovery Institute.] WASHINGTON (CNN) –The U.S. State Department is giving 15 countries — including allies Turkey and Greece — four months to improve their efforts to crack down on human trafficking or they could face sanctions. The warning came with Wednesday’s release of the Read More ›
pen almost any introductory biology textbook published between 1960 and 2000 and you’ll see pictures of peppered moths resting on tree trunks, put there to illustrate the classic story of natural selection in action. Since the 1980s, however, biologists have known that the story is seriously flawed. In a new book, Of Moths and Men, Judith Hooper documents the rise Read More ›
When many people think of “animal rights,” they may picture trendy celebrities posing in nude photographs to combat the fur industry. Or perhaps, they will roll their eyes and smile when they hear that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reported the California Milk Advisory Board to the FCC for false advertising because its television ads claim Read More ›
Bruce Chapman, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, deputy assistant to President Ronald Reagan, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna, Austria, has been president of Discovery Institute since 1990. In 1967 he made an early case for an all-volunteer military in The Wrong Man in Uniform (Trident Press of Simon & Schuster). If each woman Read More ›
From the Daily Policy Digest The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its subsidiary National Public Radio have much to answer for, says Richard Rahn of the Discovery Institute. Rahn complains that NPR’s broadcast agenda is unashamedly left- wing and taxpayers — the vast majority of whom are conservative by nature — are being forced to pay NPR’s bills. In addition Read More ›
Original article They had hotel reservations. Plane tickets. Hopes to spend a relaxing week on the beaches of Cabo San Lucas. But when Gov. Gary Locke called a special legislative session earlier this month, Jim and Fawn Spady canceled their vacation without a second thought. For nearly nine years, the couple has lived by Olympia’s calendar in an unrelenting campaign Read More ›
Original article Blaine’s Pacific Highway border crossing was the first stop Thursday on a congressional tour of Western Washington’s transportation infrastructure by the chairman of a House transportation subcommittee responsible for rewriting a six-year federal transportation funding bill. Rep. Tom Petri’s panel is drafting a $375 billion proposal that would increase federal highway and transit funding in all 50 states. Read More ›