Wesley J. Smith

Why I refuse to use Skype Video during my radio . . . . Continue Reading »

I now know the time of my debate with animal rights movement leader Gary Francione, who promotes “abolition” and veganism, toward the end  of eventually prohibiting all animal domesticaion—including dogs.  He believes that sentience gives one the “right” not . . . . Continue Reading »

About a month ago, I traveled to Seattle to give a speech at the Discovery Institute about my new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. The event was covered by C-Span and is now available for viewing by hitting this link.This is the third time one of . . . . Continue Reading »

The revisionist project to create a fictional Jack Kevorkian as merely a lovable, if sometimes tactless, man of compassion—rather the misanthropic and ghoulish nut that he really is—continues.  (See Kevorkian paintings I uploaded to accompany this post.  He sometimes used human . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare passed.  Large companies were forced to take hundreds of millions of charges on their profit/loss statements.  The intimidator, Representative Henry Waxman, was  outraged and called a committee hearing to flay the offending companies’ CEOs.  Except—taking . . . . Continue Reading »

Here in California, our collapsing economy is being pushed even further into the abyss by Gov. Schwartzenegger’s misguided “green” laws.  (When Arnold found the going tough in staunching our arterial budget bleed out, he shrugged his shoulders and worked with the Left . . . . Continue Reading »

Nebraska has outlawed abortions after 20 weeks on the grounds that by then, the fetus has developed the structures necessary to feel pain. From the story: Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed a law on Tuesday banning most abortions 20 weeks after conception … Continue Reading »

A good political cartoon proves the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.  This is a good political . . . . Continue Reading »

During my years volunteering for hospice, I had a patient named Bob.  Bob was dying of ALS, and told me he had been suicidal for more than two years, to the point, he told me, that if he could have gone to Kevorkian, he would have taken the flight.  (He later changed his mind and was very . . . . Continue Reading »

Nebraska has outlawed abortions after 20 weeks on the grounds that by then, the fetus has developed the structures necessary to feel pain.  From the story:Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed a law on Tuesday banning most abortions 20 weeks after conception or later on the theory that a fetus, . . . . Continue Reading »