Wesley J. Smith

Van Jones would still be the “Green Czar” in the Obama Administration if he hadn’t been caught on tape claiming that 9/11 was an inside job.  Thus, it is very great cause for concern on several levels that he has jumped on the radical “rights of nature” concept . . . . Continue Reading »

The state of MA is helping fund a site that undermines parental relationships by smilingly telling teenagers that they can get an abortion—presented as no big deal—and keep it all a secret from their parents.  From the story:A state-funded sex education Web site that tells teens an . . . . Continue Reading »

The Supreme Court has refused to take the Obamacare cases on an expedited basis.  From the story:The Supreme Court on Monday turned down Virginia’s request that it rule immediately on the constitutionality of the nation’s health-care overhaul. Various challenges to the health-care . . . . Continue Reading »

It is Easter Sunday, and people of the Christian persuasion are joyously celebrating the core event of the faith.  This may have atheists feeling left out.  So a little Steve Martin fun to get atheist SHSers through the night—and put a smile on everyone’s face.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, has a column out pushing universal Medicare that fundamentally fails to grapple with reality in making the case.  He admits Medicare is breaking the bank and then chides President Obama for relying on the (unnamed) Medicare . . . . Continue Reading »

A Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR), is not the same thing as a “do not treat” request, although there is sometimes confusion in that regard.  It simply means that if the patient has a cardiac arrest, the medical team (or nursing home personnel) are instructed to not try and revive the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Canadian Hospital and its doctors have much to explain. Stating that a tracheotomy was not in Baby Joseph’s interests, and wishing to pull him off life extending care, they clearly decided that the time had come for Joseph to die. But his parents wanted to take him home with them to die . . . . Continue Reading »

Oncology has an important article out that every media writer should read. Reporters ubiquitously write or speak of euthanasia as having “tight safeguards” against abuse. They don’t work—and I submit they are not supposed to, but rather, are there merely to give the illusion . . . . Continue Reading »

The Phoenix case of the mentally ill woman assisted in suicide by Final Exit Network zealots—what else would you call people who aided a mentally ill person kill themselves with helium instead of calling in suicide prevention?—ended in a not guilty verdict for the distant leader of the . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an interesting article in The New Republic about why the Greens failed politically across the board in the last two years.  From “Blame Game: Has the Green Movement Been a Miserable Flop?”What the hell went wrong? For months now, environmentalists have been asking . . . . Continue Reading »