Oh, no. It’s yet another “rising star” governor of the Democratic Party to the rescue! After President Bush’s State of the Union address, Democrats trotted out Tim Kaine, the recently elected “centrist” governor of red-but-increasingly-purple Virginia to present their response. Governor Kaine gave a laundry list of purported ills that afflict America and declared repeatedly, “there is a better way.” Read More ›
George Gilder, editor of the Gilder Technology Report, regularly responds to subscriber questions at a subscriber-online chat. Here are some excerpts from Gilder’s recent question and answer session on the topic of network processors and companies that are leading the move to win “share of network.” GTR Subscriber Question: Why would IBM start selling its interest in EZchip after all these years, when EZchip is ready Read More ›
In the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. For those who have not heard the tragic story, Haleigh was beaten nearly to death last September, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather. The beating left her unconscious and barely clinging to life. Within a week or so Read More ›
These are troubled times for Jewish-Christian relations. In November, two influential American Jewish leaders, representing large swaths of the Jewish community, gave major speeches vilifying politically conservative Christians. As an Orthodox Jew who has long worked with evangelicals, Catholics, and other serious Christians, I would like to propose an ameliorative measure aimed at furthering inter-religious peace and friendship: Let every Read More ›
This article, published by The Guardian, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Michael Behe, the architect of ID and the star witness in the Dover trial, was publicly disowned by his biological sciences department at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. The rest of the article can be found here.
Deficits make for great newspaper headlines: “U.S. Trade Deficit Continues to Grow” or “Greenspan Warns About Federal Budget Deficit.” Yet one deficitperhaps equal to the others in its impact on our economic health and future prosperityis often minimized or overlooked. It is that of our national and regional infrastructure, from energy to transportation. Discovery’s Cascadia Center has long recognized this Read More ›
This article, published by Human Events, mentions Discovery Institute: The Discovery Institute recently produced a list of over 400 scientists of varying faith and non-faith—including those from such prestigious institutions as Princeton, MIT and Cornell—who signed onto a statement stressing they were skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of Read More ›
These two letters, published by The Daily Telegraph, are about Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer’s article in the Daily Telegraph: Sir – Stephen Meyer’s article (Opinion, January 28) on intelligent design was a thoughtful and calm outline of the background to the debate. Professor Colin Reeves Sir – Most readers of books by Michael Behe or William Dembski find Read More ›