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Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.

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More Animal Rights/Liberation Thuggery

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In the UK a pharmaceutical company’s stock broker had his car firebombed. So, he quit being the broker. This is the continuing pattern here and abroad. Stop businesses from humanely and properly using animals by intimidating, threatening, and attacking businesses and their personnel who have . . . . Continue Reading »

Mario Cuomo is All Wet

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This bit of drivel from former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo published in yesterday’s New York Times about the Bush embryonic stem cell research funding policy needs responding to. I’ll do my best as soon as I dig out from the vacation . . . . Continue Reading »

Terri Schiavo, RIP

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My vacation was considerably soured by the release of the Schiavo autopsy results. Not the report itself: There wasn’t much in it that surprised. It was the disgusting spin on the story by some who sought to use the report to further demagogue the story for political and partisan ends. But . . . . Continue Reading »