Wesley J. Smith

Insanity. The Controlled Substances Act—a federal law—states explicitly that marijuana has no medicinal uses.  It is therefore outlawed for every purpose throughout the USA.Yet, the Veteran’s Adm., part of the federal government, is now going to allow patients to use MM in . . . . Continue Reading »

Awhile back I supported a plan to kill geese in and around New York City to protect aviation safety.  (Recall that flying geese were sucked into an airliner’s jet engines, which would have killed more than a hundred passengers—and perhaps many more on the ground—but for an . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the exceptional characteristics inherent in humanity—and absent in all other known life forms—is our moral agency.  We, and only we, work out what is right and what is wrong based on a rational—and one must also say, emotional and sometimes . . . . Continue Reading »

Proponents of assisted suicide are ever trying to fool all the people all the time. One method is word engineering.  Ever since euthanasia advocacy  began over 100 years ago, advocates have continually sought the perfect phrase or advocacy term that will convince society to swallow . . . . Continue Reading »

The USA and much of the West are growing increasingly pro suicide.  We see it in advocacy for legalizing assisted suicide for the sick. We see it in the number of how-to-commit suicide books that are sold and in the media’s embrace of ghouls such as Jack Kevorkian.  Some of the more . . . . Continue Reading »

You write a book. Some reviews are good, some bad, and some middling.  It’s not always fun, but that’s the life of an author.A middling review came out today in the New Republic’s website.  All in all, given the source, I am not displeased.  But I do have to correct . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been repeatedly asked my views about the Final Exit Network advocacy billboards that push assisted suicide.  I was going to post on it, but I was interviewed by Fox News Network on the issue, and I think my comments to Fox’s reporter will suffice.  From the story:A national . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t understand why people don’t connect the dots when it comes to suicide.  On one hand, officials wring their hands—appropriately—over suicide rates.  But at the same time, legislators and activists promote suicide/euthanasia for the sick.  That’s a . . . . Continue Reading »

Bureaucratic centralized control is the bane of good medicine.  And yet, our fearless leaders keep wrapping the system in increasing bureaucratic chains, giving  faceless planners ever more power, sapping the system of competency and efficiency.One bureaucratic agenda item is fighting . . . . Continue Reading »

I spent most of my time flying to Australia recently reading my pal Dean Koontz’ newest, Frankenstein novel, Lost Souls. It made the time fly as fast as the Boeing 777 I was on.  Like almost everything Dean  writes, it is an effortless read—the pages just melt away—and . . . . Continue Reading »