Wesley J. Smith

Back in the 1980s when I was still young, I was the fourth talk show host on the three talk show station, KGIL Radio in LA—meaning, I was the regular fill-in host (I sure loved that gig!). The star of the station in the evening drive time slot was a strong feminist and very pro choice advocate . . . . Continue Reading »

I believe that those who want to legalize recreational pot used sick people as a front to achieve their ends by creating the state medical marijuana systems.  Indeed, the experience in California proves it, as attested by columnist Nicolas Kristof, who argues in his NYT column for the full . . . . Continue Reading »

I favor government funding of medical research.  But that comes with a price—those with political power tend to gain more support than those without—even if the needs of the politically unconnected are more pressing than that of those with clout.I bring this up because of a piece in . . . . Continue Reading »

Al Gore is Elmer Gantry.  Expert at posing as the Puritan, he preaches hell and brimstone and calls on us to be saved by saving the planet.  And he’s gotten very rich doing it.  He won (ludicrously) the Nobel Peace Prize.  He’s become a rock star of the Left.But walk . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been called Cassandra on more than one occasion—many more.  Often the person so saying is calling me an alarmist,  thinking that Cassandra was a false prophet.  Actually, she saw the future accurately—but nobody believed her.  Yup, too often, that’s . . . . Continue Reading »

The anti humanism of radical environmentalism is sometimes explicit—and more often, implicit.  The panic du jour is species extinction—which we’ve discussed here at SHS before.  But the leading NGOs show their radical hands in an article in today’s Washington Post, . . . . Continue Reading »

Should a dying cancer patient’s request to have CPR at the end of his disease process be honored by doctors, or if they think it is inappropriate, should they be able to unilaterally refuse resuscitation?  That is the question posed in a Canadian lawsuit in which a cancer patient clearly . . . . Continue Reading »

Behind the scenes as the bureaucrats begin to work on Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »

I know that some committed movement advocates, such as elements of the pro life and animal rights communities (as just two examples), think that graphic and bloody ads have the ability to change minds and hearts of those who are not believers.  This is a highly questionable premise.  In . . . . Continue Reading »

The NYT has an interesting story today on Obamacare’s requirement that the states create insurance exchanges—or the Feds will! This brings to fore another fecund area of bureaucratization imposed on the country by the law—the ones required to be created at the state level.How will . . . . Continue Reading »