Wesley J. Smith

The picture at the right is of Secondhand Smoke—at least if one listens to Rhode Island Senator Whitehouse. He claims opponents of Obamacare are nothing but a bunch of racists and right wing fanatics who wish President Obama didn’t even exist. From the story quoting the . . . . Continue Reading »

I just knew the global warming  that hysterics wouldn’t learn humility from their recent debacle. Unable to impose their will in Copenhagen, some of the more hysterical warmers apparently now want to junk the UN approach and impose their will on the world by a supposed . . . . Continue Reading »

As I have often warned, the next big agenda item in organ transplant medicine is gaining license for transplant surgeons to kill the cognitively devastated and imminently dying patients for their organs.   Such a policy is pushed from two different angles, both of which try to convince us . . . . Continue Reading »

Copenhagen is over, and it is even less than met the eye yesterday.  In fact, the “deal” isn’t even really a deal. From the story:After intense overnight wrangling, delegates from 192 countries on Saturday passed a motion simply “noting” a loose deal aimed at . . . . Continue Reading »

Sigh. Even Native Americans are the bad guys when hysterical scientists start pounding the End Of the World Drum.  A new study predicts that we will cause a mass extinction worse than what happened to the dinosaurs.  From the story:The study of the fossil and archaeological record over the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning that the politicization of science and the attempt to turn it into an ideology—even a religion—would badly undermine the public’s confidence.  Indeed, I warned that the outrageous stem cell hyping, the global warming hysteria, and the clear suppression of . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Ben Nelson got as much lucre for Nebraska as he could, and with Joe Lieberman, killed the public option.  He also appears to have obtained an abortion compromise that would allow states to opt out of abortion coverage, which would result in huge swaths of the USA free . . . . Continue Reading »

As the Obama Administration pretends that Copenhagen was a major breakthrough, the hysterics are furious at their failure to gain control of the world’s economies and governance.  From the story:Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: “The city of Copenhagen is a crime . . . . Continue Reading »

My pal Nat Hentoff—a self-described “Jewish, atheist, civil libertarian, pro lifer”—gave an interview to the Rutherford Institute.  Nat has been around a long time—he was close with the Beat Poets, for example—and as the interviewer states, because he sticks . . . . Continue Reading »

I just watched President Obama on television. There will be no binding agreement coming out of Copenhagen, meaning that the conference failed.  That’s to be celebrated, not because of anything personal, but because no deal is good for the country and good for the world. More details and . . . . Continue Reading »