REPUBLICANS who dream of attacking John Edwards for making his fortune as a trial lawyer should know that his most famous lawsuit — the one he talks about most on the campaign trail — involved a little girl condemned to a lifetime of feeding tubes when she became caught in a powerful drain in a wading pool. Sitting in only Read More ›
Did you know that between fiscal years 2001 and 2004 federal spending will rise by about 24 percent, and nondefense, discretionary outlays will increase about 31 percent? In 2000, federal government outlays were 18.4 percent of GDP, but in 2004 they will be approximately 20.5 percent of GDP. By any measure, both defense and nondefense federal government spending is rising Read More ›
Is our universe a blind concatenation of atoms, evolution a random walk across a meaningless landscape, and our sense of purpose a pathetic shield against a supremely indifferent world? Or does the universe and our place within it click into place, repeatedly? These starkly different views open up immense metaphysical and theological questions, and at least part of the answer Read More ›
SEATTLE — “Unlocking the Mystery of Life,” a 58-minute program exploring what DNA reveals about the origin of life, is now airing on PBS stations across the country. “Unlocking the Mystery of Life” documents how scientists are abandoning naturalistic explanations for the origin of genetic information and looking to theories of design for answers. “In almost every scientific discipline we Read More ›
The “Rule OF Terri’s Case” has struck again. The term was coined by Pat Anderson, attorney for Terri Schiavo’s parents Bob and Mary Schindler, who complained: “If following a legal procedure will likely result in Terri dying, it will be adhered to. But if a procedure could make that outcome more difficult to attain, it will not be followed.” Anderson’s Read More ›
JANUARY 29, 2004 – New science standards proposed by the Georgia Department of Education eliminate all references to “evolution” and instead use the term “biological changes over time,” in order to avoid public protest over the lack of thoroughness in how evolution is presented. “This is just absurd. Georgia needs to teach more about evolution, not less,” said Rob Crowther, spokesman Read More ›
Remarks of Discovery Institute Sr. Fellow David Dewolf, Professor of Law Gonzaga Law School to Darby School DistrictJanuary 28, 2004 Thank you. I am very appreciative of your allowing me to offer my reflections on the proposed policy. Before I do so, I’d like to clarify my role in this process. Although I have an opinion regarding the constitutionality of Read More ›
“I am from the government and I am here to help you,” is a well-known oxymoron again proving to be true. A decade ago, we had a mean Internal Revenue Service that did all sorts of terrible and unjustified things to innocent taxpayers. The people got mad, and the people’s representatives — the House and the Senate — held hearings Read More ›
CLONING ADVOCATES are playing a shell game with the American people. At the federal level, they advocate the legalization of human cloning but assert that cloned embryos should be destroyed after 14 days of development and never implanted in wombs (the Hatch / Feinstein Bill). But this is a diversionary political tactic. Hatch / Feinstein’s true purpose is to prevent Read More ›