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Original Article Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement Oct. 1 declaring that the Georgian government’s arrest of seven Russian officers was needlessly provocative, and suggesting a U.S. hand in the incident. “There seem to be some powers which specialize in creating a new crisis every day, thinking it will distract attention from the old problems,” Putin said. “In the Read More ›

Original Article The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design By Jonathan Wells Regnery, 273 pages, $19.95, paperback —————————————- Why Darwin Matters The Case Against Intelligent Design By Michael Shermer Times Books, 199 pages, $22 These two books – released within a few weeks of each other – address Darwinism and its critics, but in radically different ways. Not Read More ›

In recent decades Charles Darwin’s explanation of evolution through natural selection has been challenged by an alternative theory called Intelligent Design. A growing number of science teachers and school boards are struggling with how to present students with the facts. Even acknowledging the existence of an argument has become controversial. How should students learn the history of life on this Read More ›

Literature, chemistry, mathematics, biology. These subjects are not immediately connected in the human mind—though all challenge, inspire, and often engulf the mind, perhaps at its pinnacle. Does evolution, however, explain why man would endeavor so fervently to unlock the secrets of geometry or the periodic table? Or why he would draft page upon page to describe worlds unknown except to Read More ›

Original Article on Page 26 It is no secret that excessive regulation, such as excessive taxation of any business or industry, can weaken or even kill it. The financial industry is particularly sensitive to excessive regulation given that capital can flow from one regulatory jurisdiction to another at almost the speed of light. Appropriate regulation and the rule of law Read More ›

Uninformed Stereotypes Are Blinding Americans to Russian Business Opportunities, Says Discovery Institute Seattle – “Are Americans being misled about Russia? Yes,” says Yuri Mamchur, Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Discovery Institute, “All too often American media reporting on Russia is misguided by common stereotypes. The result is inadequate understanding of the true economic, social and political situation in Russia.” The Read More ›

Jonathan Wells’ Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design (Regnery) is surely the best book ever written on the problems of Darwin’s theory of evolution. I was about to say the best for laymen, but it will also be invaluable for experts. The evidence and arguments deal with such a broad range of topics that few will be conversant Read More ›

Original Article THE LOOMING TOWER: AL QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11 BY LAWRENCE WRIGHT KNOPF, 469 PAGES, $27.95 It may seem impious to nominate Lawrence Wright’s “The Looming Tower” as the perfect 9/11 book, in the same way you might hail a Michael Crichton novel as the perfect summer thriller. But I don’t know of a book that does Read More ›

The following article quotes Senior Fellow Bret Swanson: Original Article LAFFER LAYS A ROTTEN EGG IN HIS DUFFLE BAG Arthur Laffer is a great American. But his op-ed on Fed policy in this morning’s Wall Street Journal is a mish-mash of errors, misconceptions and loopy technical analysis. It starts from the very first line. “You’d have to dig pretty far Read More ›