A few odds and ends on the education front: **As difficult as it might sometimes be to come to the defense of the Texas State Board of Education, I must do so in the case of the recent revision of the social studies standards, particularly as it pertains to the history textbooks. Yes, some of […]
Archives for 2010
Patenting Life?
Recently a fairly obscure court decision caught my attention. A Federal judge in Manhattan struck down some of a company’s patents on genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers. This decision will no doubt revive the debate as to whether human genes, or any living thing for that matter, should be subject to patent protection. […]
A Regensburg Moment
The recent release of the book, Son of Hamas, by Mosab Hassan Yousef has caused quite a stir across the Middle East. Yousef is the son of the founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, and in his book he discloses that he has served as one of the top spies for Israel’s […]
Fixing the Global Finance System
Every pundit, regardless of their qualifications, has an opinion on who is responsible for the worldwide financial meltdown of 2008 and how to fix the problem. The majority of these fixes involve two elements–more government regulation and the early detection and prevention of “systemic risk”. Each of these assume that there exists a mechanism by […]
The Tipping Point
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, a Mrs. Powell anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the convention, she asked him directly: “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin responded, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it”. Well, after all […]
The Threat to America’s Leadership
No less an authority than Lech Walesa (you remember him, the former electrician who stood up to the Soviet puppet government in Poland, which ultimately, with a little help from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and the Pope, led to the fall of the Soviet empire) recently made an insightful observation: “The world has no leadership. […]
The Cult of Fairness
For as long as there has been an American party of the left, it has been associated with an obsession with the notion of “fairness” and a related hatred of social and economic inequality of condition, which is often closely allied with envy and even hatred of the “rich”. This began long before the late […]
The Russia-U. S. “Reset”
At the dawn of the Obama administration, the mission of U. S.-Russian relations was characterized by “reset”, even to the point of a silly reset button visual aid presented to Russian leadership by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. What reset means to the Russians was described by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as “to move beyond […]
Another Significant Bush Legacy…
and maybe the most significant aside from the future evaluation of success in Iraq, will be his appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, on which I have previously commented. More recent evidence here are the decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission and the likely decision in McDonald […]
More Bush Vindication
Recently I have indicated a number of areas of foreign and defense policy in which the legacy of the administration of George W. Bush continues to thrive, despite the campaign promises of Barack Obama to roll back much of it. One of the best examples is in Iraq, where we have been presented with the […]
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