As Jonathan Dudley pointed out in his recent column (“Evolution Sunday not so benign,” 1/24), hundreds of Christian churches across America will celebrate Darwin’s theory on Feb. 11. Why will they do this? A little background is helpful here. Evolution can mean many things. Broadly speaking, it means simply change over time, something no sane person doubts. In biblical interpretation, Read More ›
Contact: Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Steve Marshall The President needs a sequel to his State of the Union address on energy issues. Although he set a goal to reduce the use of gasoline by 20% in ten years, he can do more and do it faster. What is needed is an Executive Order to jumpstart a technology that would dramatically Read More ›
Alan Mulally, Ford’s new CEO, helped lead Boeing into a new world of carbon-fiber, fuel-efficient technology with the 787 Dreamliner. In an intensely competitive global marketplace, Boeing is back on top again in sales over Airbus, which is struggling to catch up with Boeing’s fuel-efficient technologies. Mulally now faces a similar global fuel-efficiency race in the even more competitive auto Read More ›
If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez deliberately intended to sabotage his nation’s economy, he would be hard-pressed to do anything different from what he is now doing to his country. It has been widely reported that Mr. Chavez has been increasingly taking control of the oil, telecommunications and energy sectors, as well as the media. What has not been reported is Read More ›
Today there is much praise for YouTube, MySpace, blogs and all the other democratic digital technologies that are allowing you and me to transform media and commerce. But these infant Internet applications are at risk, thanks to the regulatory implications of “network neutrality.” Proponents of this concept — including Democratic Reps. John Dingell and John Conyers, and Sen. Daniel Inouye, Read More ›
This article, published by The Seattle Times, mentions Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center: Two committee members — Snohomish City Councilman Larry Countryman and Thomas Till, a director of Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center — voted against the trail-only option on the corridor in King County. The rest of the article can be found here.
I had an opportunity last weekend to take a mental snapshot of the Jewish liberal species at Limmud New York, a learning conference held at the Friar Tuck Convention Center in Catskill, N.Y. Of some 900 people present for the beautifully organized smorgasbord of presentations on religious, political and other topics, I was probably one of about five Republicans. I Read More ›
This is a story about an international organization — The Tax Justice Network (TJN) — that advocates higher taxes, yet flies under the false label of “tax justice.” Its odd concept of tax justice includes: Increasing taxes on savings and productive investment, which will destroy jobs and economic opportunity. Demanding that more efficient and less corrupt governments increase their taxes Read More ›
The Winter 2007 issue of Montana Law Review features an exchange of views about the Kitzmiller v. Dover (2005) intelligent design ruling. The lead article in the issue, “Intelligent Design Will Survive Kitzmiller v. Dover” is authored by Discovery Institute Senior Fellows David DeWolf and John West along with Program Officer in Public Policy and Legal Affairs Casey Luskin. A Read More ›
The last time I saw Peter Drucker, he was keynoting a Forbes conference in Seattle for CEOs. In the auditorium at the International Trade Center next to the bay, they had wheeled out the great man to the middle of the stage in a great fluffy easy chair. Close to 90 years old—at the end of the previous century gazing Read More ›