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"Darwin’s great insight was that species retain randomly occurring new features that improve their survival. Hence, evolution. In theory, adaptation occurs in companies thanks to conscious strategy. In practice, the process may be more freakish, as directors studying their business plans years later tend to concede. It can involve happenstance, hunches and blind panic."

It was from an obsessive Darwin-defender that I learned of the Anti-Defamation League's attack on the theatrical documentary Expelled, for "misappropriat[ing] the Holocaust." This guy is constantly emailing me. He warned that the ADL had just "issued a terse press release today condemning the equation of ‘Darwinism' with Nazism in Expelled. How can you call yourself a religious Jew and still believe in such Fundamentalist Protestant Christian nonsense like Intelligent Design?" I thanked my email correspondent for a good laugh. The idea that, having defended Expelled's thesis concerning Hitler's intellectual debt to Charles Darwin, I would now feel chastised and...

ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler New York, NY, August 22, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy." After being contacted by the ADL about...

A Darwinian View of ImmigrationBy Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | April 12, 2006 "All these immigration bills are essentially the same,” the wise man told me. “None are intended to stop illegal immigration. Our restrictions are designed merely to be filters to weed out the weak, lazy and stupid from getting into the U.S. Those who get through will be the fittest, and they will bring America the best genetic stock as new citizens.” This columnist was first to identify the paradox that today’s liberals demand that Darwinian evolution be taught in our public school classrooms but insist that real Darwinian...

Things are getting a bit rough in Iraq. Do we have the staying power to hang in there to send a tough message to other terrorist-sponsoring nations? Or will we cut and run as we've done so many times before? A lesson from history: strong nations survive, weak nations don't. Another lesson: a nation is strong only if its people and its military are strong. A strong people are blessed with strong citizens and strong leaders. A strong military is blessed with a professional force, a dedicated leadership, and the assets it needs to perform its missions. A nation can...