Wesley J. Smith

Former President Bill Clinton told Rep. Paul Ryan that he hoped the Democratic victory in NY 26 would not mean doing nothing.  Republicans pounced, as if the statement really boosted their hand.But look at this clip.  Clinton is consistent in both.  The Ryan exchange is much ado about . . . . Continue Reading »

Warning!  If we rely primarily on government funding for health care, when funding is scarce, big problems arise.  We’ve dealt with this before in the context of the NHS, Medicaid cuts, and rationing by time in Canada.  But look at what is happening in Greece.  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

Global Warming Hysteria holds that we should destroy our national sovereignty by handing over our economies to an international, unaccountable technocracy run by the pathetically hapless UN, as we redistribute wealth from the West to pay destitute countries to stay destitute. (See the craziness that . . . . Continue Reading »

I have found the ongoing discussion over the proposed San Francisco law outlawing circumcision from being performed in The City, very interesting.  I thank the many commenters to my two recent previous posts (here and here) for their participation, frankness, and passion.It is that very passion . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t know the ins and outs of the loss by the Republican in NY 26 House District.  I know there was faux Tea Party spoiler candidate, and etc.  But the MSM is claiming that it is a rebuke of Representative Paul Ryan’s idea of fixing Medicare—depicted above in a prime . . . . Continue Reading »

The authoritarian attempt to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco—no religious exemptions allowed—stirred quite a hornet’s nest here at SHS when I first brought it up. Having paid attention to the comments, particularly those in support of the ban, I am more convinced than ever . . . . Continue Reading »

Wow. Pig is an SHS commenter:How Richard Dawkins spends his . . . . Continue Reading »

The Indian crisis of sex selection abortion is worsening. From the AP story:More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according to a new study published Tuesday. The decline in the number of girls is more . . . . Continue Reading »

Head global warming hysteric Al Gore does terrible harm to the cause about which he espouses so passionately. Not only is he a supreme hypocrite in the carbon intensive way he lives and the money he makes off the issue—as he accuses his opponents of venal motives—but his beyond . . . . Continue Reading »

The Obama Administration is, unsurprisingly, not happy that Indiana has cut off its special pet Planned Parenthood from Medicaid payments.  And it threatens to do something about it.  But apparently, that “something” is cutting off the federal share of Medicaid funding to the . . . . Continue Reading »