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Steve Vincent, whom we have long admired, was killed by terrorists yesterday in Basra, Iraq. Bruce Chapman’s Wall Street Journal book review of Vincent’s “In the Red Zone” is cited at the end of the following story from Reuters. Steven Vincent, U.S. art critic who went to war 03 Aug 2005 18:03:38 GMT, Source: Reuters NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Read More ›

Join The Free Speech on Evolution Campaign. Scientists, teachers, and students are under attack for questioning evolution – click here to help us help them. In a discussion with reporters on Monday, President George W. Bush supported local control on how evolution is taught but also expressed support for exposing students to different views about evolution. “I think that part of Read More ›

Seattle — On Tuesday, August 2, the Kansas Science Standards Writing Committee will meet to consider a draft “Response” to the current working draft of the Kansas Science Standards. The “Response” was apparently prepared by Writing Committee Co-Chair Prof. Steve Case, a long-time activist with Darwin-only lobbying group, Kansas Citizens for Science. “Unfortunately, the proposed ‘Response’ is mostly misinformation and red Read More ›

This article, published by The American Spectator, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: John West of the Discovery Institute has reported the ongoing harassment of scientists who dissent from Darwinism. He writes that at “the Smithsonian Institution, biologist Richard Sternberg, the former editor of a respected biology journal, says he faced discrimination and retaliation after accepting for publication a Read More ›

This article, published by The Washington Post, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: George Gilder’s in-depth knowledge of the high-tech industry comes into full play in his new book, ” The Silicon Eye ” — a look at the image capture-innovator Foveon Inc. The firm “can do for the camera what Intel did for the computer,” writes Gilder.  Read More ›

This article, published by The Boston Globe, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: George Gilder has absorbed shots before, from feminists, Democrats, liberal economists, and angry investors, among others. Yet even Gilder, seemingly a lightning rod for the socioeconomic controversy of the moment, was blistered by the comments posted on a University of Minnesota biologist’s weblog last fall, language Read More ›

How many companies offer phone service — traditional land-line telephone companies, cable companies, satellite providers, numerous wireless telephone providers?

Whatever the number, it certainly is not a monopoly and the providers are highly competitive. Yet, we still have a telecommunications regulatory agency, the Federal Communication Commission, that in many ways still operates as if we had but one land-line company.

The U.S. lags well behind many countries in Asia and even some in Europe in broadband deployment, not because many companies in the U.S. are unwilling to provide the service, but because they are hobbled by regulators. Some people at the FCC and their sister organizations within the states not only lack a vision of the future, but seem incapable of understanding both the industry’s economics and the technologies now available.

The debate over how to teach evolution continues to escalate in Utah and around the country. Some insist that only Darwinism be taught in the science classroom while others are bent on including the Biblical account alongside modern evolutionary theory. One is a dogmatic approach to science education while the other enshrines a particular religious text in the public class Read More ›

When the next terrorist incident occurs in the U.S., who do you think Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Democratic Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada and Hillary Clinton of New York and much of the national news media will blame? If you said President Bush and the Republican Congress, you understand the “politics of terrorism.”

It will be charged not enough was spent to protect Americans from bombs on (insert appropriate noun for the incident — buses, trains, airplanes, ships, buildings, bridges, etc.). Of course, the Republicans know this is what will be said.

As a result, huge amounts of dollars are spent, and our civil liberties curtailed to protect politicians from both parties from the charge they “did not do enough to protect us.” Much of this new expenditure is not enhancing our protection, but only weakening us economically, and the never-ending restrictions on civil liberties undermine the freedoms we hold dear.