Wesley J. Smith

Climategate may be about to go nuclear. So far, the lame excuse of the alarmist community was that Climategate’s purloined e-mails may have shown attempts to stifle heterodox thinking and bully professional journals, but the data that allegedly proves global warming was not in any way . . . . Continue Reading »

The awful (and tragic) comments of novelist Martin Amis, suggesting that “suicide booths on every corner” would be a splendid solution to the purported problem of the “stinking” elderly— my take here—continues to provoke comment.  The Times of London reports . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the things that really soured me on the Clintons—or perhaps better stated, the first—was the botched Hillarycare mess. Instead of fixing what was broken, she tried to remake the entire system, resulting in a bureaucratic mess. Ditto Obamacare’s 2700 page monstrosity that . . . . Continue Reading »

Don’t tell me I am an alarmist about human exceptionalism.  The Swiss—who have already declared the intrinsic dignity of individual plants—are now going to vote whether to permit animals to sue in court.  From the story:Switzerland will hold a referendum next month on . . . . Continue Reading »

According to polls, the UK is becoming ever more assisted suicide friendly. From the story:The public’s support for a change in the law on assisted suicide and euthanasia was uncovered by the YouGov poll following a succession of high profile court cases. Three quarters of those polled said . . . . Continue Reading »

Can it get any worse for the credibility of the global warming scientific community?  The IPCC based some of its recommendations on anecdotes in a student’s thesis and an article in a mountaineering magazine. From the story:The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been watching the libertarian love affair with Utopian transhumanism for some time.  It seems odd to me.  Libertarians tend to see themselves as hard-headed realists about the motives and hearts of men. But whenever they get a whiff of the futurist opium, many of the . . . . Continue Reading »

To be trite, let’s call the nonsense about the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035, “glaciergate.”  Why? Not only did the IPCC Report present the false claim to the world as a way of pressuring political leaders—discussed already here at SHS—but it now turns out . . . . Continue Reading »

The jury in the George Tiller killing convicted Scott Roeder of murder in the first degree. From the story : Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a killing the gunman claimed was . . . . Continue Reading »

The jury in the George Tiller killing came to the right verdict, convicting Scott Roeder of murder in the first degree.  From the story:Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a . . . . Continue Reading »