Wesley J. Smith

I am just shocked at the success of the campaign to usurp parental authority over (in particular) girls to the public health sector.  Children who can’t receive aspirin without parental consent, receive abortions, birth control pills, and mental  health counseling in many areas. And . . . . Continue Reading »

The political debacle suffered by the Democratic Party tonight—it was not a validation of Republicans—had two major causes.  One, beyond our scope here, was the economy and the president’s handling thereof. The second, unquestionably, was Obamacare.  The American people . . . . Continue Reading »

When I went to college, a pretty clear distinction existed between what was often called “the humanities” and the hard sciences, e.g. biology, physics, chemestry, etc.  Since then, liberalism has cast itself as the ideology of science.  Perhaps that is why liberals in the . . . . Continue Reading »

I recently reported about how a Belgian woman with locked-in syndrome—total quadriplegia with full cognitive capacities caused by brain injury—was euthanized at her request by doctors—who then took her organs pursuant to consent.  The idea of coupling euthanasia and organ . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t do partisan politics here, meaning I am not into the horse race.  But I just read an article by the excellent and usually very accurate pollster Scott Rasmussen that I think hits the proverbial nail on the head.  If the Dems fall hard on Tuesday, a major cause will be the . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t think the government should force health insurance companies to cover contraception.  But under Obamacare, companies may soon be required to pay for prescribed birth control as a method of preventive health care—which Obamacare (unwisely) forces insurance to provide as a . . . . Continue Reading »

I spoke last week at the Discovery Institute in Seattle on medical conscience clauses. I shared the dais with adult stem cell researcher, Dr. Theresa Deisher, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit in which a judge found that federal funding of embryonic stem cell research violated federal law.  . . . . Continue Reading »

See, this is what really drives people nuts and makes them want to ensure than no global warming hysteric gets anywhere near the levers of power.  A Penn professor of something called “Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law,”  named Donald A. Brown, wants global warming denying . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not one who thinks that the global warming issue is a hoax.  Rather, I think it has been promoted in an unreasonable manner that sought to create hysteria in order to panic us into supporting unwise policies, and when people resisted, a certain snobbery kicked in that viewed those who . . . . Continue Reading »

I wondered what that woman meant.Why my attempt to TP Peter Singer’s house didn’t quite work out:A human exceptionalist holds true to his . . . . Continue Reading »