Nat Hentoff Makes Some Important Points About Schiavo

by Wesley J. Smith

Nat Hentoff is a friend of mine, and it is a great honor to be able to make that claim. For decades he has stood steadfastly for individual rights and civil liberties. When he writes about the sanctity and equality of human life, he has no peer—as in this reminder of the great wrong done to . . . . Continue Reading »

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Somebody Called "Punkass" Hates my Starbuck’s Coffee Cup

by Wesley J. Smith

I seem to have stirred up some angry—I don’t know how to label them, nihilists? anarchists?—by claiming on my Starbuck’s coffee cup (“The Way I See It” campaign, scroll to Cup # 127) that the question of the 21st Century is whether all human life will be . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Sep 2006 0

CHICAGO TRIBUNE Backs Off Advanced Cell Technology Story

by Wesley J. Smith

Now the Chicago Tribune is backing off the story of the big embryonic stem cell research breakthrough that wasn’t. And get this: Advanced Cell Technology’s “ethicist,” Ronald Green, who told the Washington Post, “You can honestly say this cell line is from an embryo . . . . Continue Reading »

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