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Board adopts textbooks after education agency head pledges to address remaining factual errors SEATTLE – The Texas State Board of Education voted today to adopt proposed biology textbooks for use in state schools after being promised by the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency that all remaining factual errors in the textbooks will have to be addressed by publishers before the Read More ›

What would you do if a neighbor’s tree falls on your house and causes a thousand dollars of damage? You would ask your neighbor to pay for the damage, and the law would require that he or his insurance pay the cost of the damage. Likewise, if your neighbor keeps hazardous materials on the edge of his property, such as Read More ›

SEATTLE – “Today’s open letter from 550 Texas scientists and teachers that supposedly supports the teaching of evolution is so vague it is meaningless,” said Bruce Chapman, president of Discovery Institute, a public policy, think-tank. “It merely distracts from the issue of errors in textbooks.” “This is nothing more than a generic endorsement of good science standards, which we support too, Read More ›

THE “LIVING WAGE” movement has become the latest effort to impose socialism on the United States, one city at a time. After a slow beginning in the 1990s, living wage ordinances — which impose minimum wages much higher than the federal one — have now been adopted in over 100 municipalities, from Somerville, Mass., to Portland, Oregon, from Minneapolis to Read More ›

One evening, during the second term of President Ronald Reagan, Terri Schiavo and her husband Michael decided to watch a television movie about Karen Ann Quinlan. Quinlan, as most readers know, had a tragic life. After overdosing on a combination of drugs and alcohol, she fell into unconsciousness and never awakened. Her parents won a lawsuit in the New Jersey Read More ›

WHEN TERRI SCHIAVO collapsed in 1990, causes unknown, she could have had no idea that 13 years later people the world over would know her name and care very much about whether she lived or died. Yet what began as a private tragedy—a vivacious young woman stricken in the very prime of her life with a brain injury that left Read More ›

POLLS SHOW that most Americans want to ban all human cloning. President Bush is eager to sign such a measure into law. The House has twice enacted a strong legal prohibition with wide, bipartisan votes. But cloning advocates have so far blocked passage of a ban in the Senate (Brownback/Landrieu) by asserting that “therapeutic cloning” might someday provide stem cell Read More ›

The tax cuts were the appropriate medicine for the economy and are already having the desired effect, yet the president’s approval rating for economic management continues to fall. In part, this is due to a series of politically motivated economic mistakes that have slowed the recovery. Not everyone in the administration has learned that good economics is good politics and Read More ›