Wesley J. Smith

Well, this is ironic—a polite word.  The SEIU serve as the shock troops for the Obama Administration and other of similar political persuasion. It was sure involved in stuffing Obamacare down the collective throat.  But now, New York’s SEIU will no longer insure the children of . . . . Continue Reading »

This story stunned me: It is SOP for legislators to put a “severability clause” into legislation, so that if part of a law is found unconstitutional, the rest of it can remain in effect.  But Obamacare has no such clause. This could have the most profound consequences.Lack of . . . . Continue Reading »

I was reading Planet Gore over at National Review’s website and an item by Chris Horner caught my attention.  A global warming hysteric named George Dvorsky has decided we need to do away with national sovereignty and democracy in the name of fighting the coming meltdown.  From . . . . Continue Reading »

Carbon dioxide continues to increase in the atmosphere, but the rate of warming is a trickle.  That doesn’t meet with scientific expectations!  What’s the holdup in the meltdown?  Pollution! From the story:Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met . . . . Continue Reading »

A Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, who writes from the relatively conservative side of the street (she writes in Canada, after all), declares the death of global warming hysteria and urges environmentalists to save their movement—of which she is a part as a director of the anti nuke . . . . Continue Reading »

Medicare is in deep trouble because it is a single payer health care system that seeks to cut costs by, among other ways, restricting physician and facility compensation. As a consequence, we are seeing the ongoing collapse of the system as doctors restrict their patient load and cease providing . . . . Continue Reading »

We live in a strange era in which Jefferson’s “right to life” supposedly has a concomitant “right to death.”  At least, that will be the case if the European Court of Human Rights rules that Germany violated the right of a woman with disabilities to obtain a lethal . . . . Continue Reading »

Thanksgiving is America’s great feast day, and one of its to two most important national holidays—the other being Independence Day (July 4).  Even though we have an international audience, I have so much for which to be thankful, that I honor our feast day here at SHS each year be . . . . Continue Reading »

Great news. During my July sojourn Down Under, my sponsors made a point of taking me to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, where I spoke in the Old Parliament Building. My allies were very worried about the prospects for the then pending euthanasia legalization bill, and my appearance was . . . . Continue Reading »

The Animal Liberation Front likes to compare itself to Martin Luther King and Ghandi.  PETA calls them the moral equivalent of the French Resistance and the Underground Railroad.Yup, those example really popped into my mind when I read that some ALF terrorists sent what they said were . . . . Continue Reading »