Wesley J. Smith

In a one of oh so many mendacious maneuvers to help sell Obamacare, Congress segregated a law needed to keep Medicare docs from suffering a huge pay from the bill in chief, even though it clearly was germane to the legislation that centralized federal control over health care.  The purpose for . . . . Continue Reading »

The murderer Jack Kevorkian was imprisoned for lethally injecting Thomas Youk, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was prosecuted because, egotist that he is, he video taped himself doing it and brought it to euthanasia fan Mike Wallace for airing on 60 Minutes. That was even too much for the . . . . Continue Reading »

Darwinism is a theory of biological inception and change over time.  Yet some advocates, bent on destroying Judeo/Christian moral philosophy that focuses on intrinsic human dignity, abuse the theory by using it as a justification to promote dangerous cultural and societal shifts.  The . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not part of the Darwin debates generally, but it always fries me when some Darwinists abuse a theory of biological inception and change over time to promote dangerous shifts in human society and culture.  Now, over at Psychology Today, we are told that because life evolved, human . . . . Continue Reading »

A lot of hot air, cyber material, and ink go into bemoaning the supposed lack of respect patients receive in the medical system for their advance medical decisions.  Usually, criticism involves the purported reluctance of doctors to honor a patients “right to die”—usually . . . . Continue Reading »

A global warming alarmist from Australia named Tim Flannery, who was Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, was interviewed about his own hysterical predictions that haven’t, shall we say, panned out.  Flannery’s back peddling was so furious it could become a new source of . . . . Continue Reading »

So CNN clearly worked very hard to find Peter Singer in Melbourne, Australia, in order to interview him about the story that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett hope to convince the super rich give away half their money.  That’s a good idea, and in keeping with what a lot of very successful . . . . Continue Reading »

Jenny McCartney, writing in the Telegraph, has a cogent warning about the consequences of a Western culture grown increasingly crass and heartless toward our brothers and sisters.  First she tells of a suicidal man who was almost talked down from a bridge jump, until impatient motorists let him . . . . Continue Reading »

The sheer arrogance of the leaders of the  California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is such that they seem to be practicing for the coming oligarchy rather than participating in an institution of democratic governance.  Recently, it met—apparently in secret and in violation of . . . . Continue Reading »

A UK general practitioner has admitted to killing patients based on “compassion.” From the story:Dr Howard Martin, once feared to be a “second Harold Shipman” [a UK physician mass murderer], told The Daily Telegraph that he gave what proved to be fatal doses of painkillers to . . . . Continue Reading »