Wesley J. Smith

Der Spiegel is one of the best news magazines around. In the current issue, it carries an interview with an emergency room physician who thinks he should be able to refuse to save the life of patients whose quality of life he finds too low, and kill others, based on the same criteria.  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago WBAI (Pacifica Radio, “Your peace and justice community radio station”) host Shelton Waldon conducted a wide ranging interview with me about my new book. He has edited it down and it first aired today.What is unusual about the program, is that Walden edited out most of . . . . Continue Reading »

After all the years of constant nagging, I think a lot of people are beginning to side with the . . . . Continue Reading »

A physician named Dr. Eliezer Van Allen wrote an opinion column in this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle intending to puncture the fear of “death panels” in the context of our political debate over Obamacare—although he is not discussing the plan’s rationing boards, . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, the howling. A doctor unhappy with the passage of Obamacare put up a note stating, “If you voted for Obama—seek urological care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now. Not in four years.”Some are outraged, including a demagogue Congressman who once said . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare supporters should—but won’t—be held to account for holding some good ideas hostage to all the bad ones in the new law.  For example, the problem of pre-existing conditions truly did cry out for reform.  Creating federal/private insurance company-subsidized  . . . . Continue Reading »

The CBS Poll, that has always seemed to me to lean favorably to President Obama (as Rasmussen tends to poll unfavorably), had some very bad news for supporters of the president and “his” health care plan.  From the story:Last week, President Obama signed historic health care reform . . . . Continue Reading »

The clip below requires a little unpacking: In answering a flip, but it turns out quite good, question about “death panels,” Paul Krugman claims accurately that the cost/benefit board established over private medicine by Obamacare will be able to impose “more or less binding . . . . Continue Reading »

Why I will never clone . . . . Continue Reading »

I know, it’s just the weather. But this year, it appears that arctic ice will return to normal levels. From the story:Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice will hit the “normal” line as defined by the National . . . . Continue Reading »