Wesley J. Smith

I am very weary of President Obama’s—and people of his ilk such as Al Gore’s—presumption that they get to say when the debate is over.  The president pulled that card out of his pocket again in Copenhagen.  From the story:“I have to be honest, as the world . . . . Continue Reading »

File this in the “I Wish I Had Written This” file.  A UK pundit named Gerald Warner has poured forth a terrific polemic against Copenhagen.  I enjoyed it not only because I agree wholeheartedly with his view of what we are beholding, but because it is a splendid example of the . . . . Continue Reading »

This whole global warming scam increasingly seem to me like a snake eating its own tale.  In Switzerland, a scientist looking for renewable energy deep in the earth has been sued for causing earthquakes.  From the story:A geologist has gone on trial in Switzerland for allegedly causing . . . . Continue Reading »

The hysteria gets deeper and more, well, hysterical.  Now, we are told, even if there is a deal at Copenhagen, we’re all still doomed!  Aaaaaugh!  From the story:A leaked UN document emerged that shows the current proposals for a deal at Copenhagen will ‘put at risk the . . . . Continue Reading »

The medical marijuana movement is being increasingly corrupted to the point that pot is being made generally available, with people using it to get high scurrilously coopting the real health needs of sick people as the pretext for gaining access to their drug.  Now, marijuana-laced food is to . . . . Continue Reading »

Our obsession with preventing all suffering could result one day in being involuntarily drugged with a psychotropic.    According to the New York Times Magazine, scientists are seriously proposing that lithium one day be put in the water supply. From the story:In The British Journal of . . . . Continue Reading »

Yellow journalism helped push the USA into war back in the 1890s.  Now, a new yellow journalism has developed using all the tricks of the trade to panic the world into granting tremendous power to an unelected and unaccountable global warming scientocracy, that will “save the . . . . Continue Reading »

The global warming hysterics gave a rousing standing O to the Marxist thug Hugo Chavez at Copenhagen.  From the story:President Chavez brought the house down. When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, . . . . Continue Reading »

Not that I trust the Russians, given their oil/gas stake in the global warming agenda, but this charge of data manipulation is too important to be ignored: A Russian institute is claiming the CRU misreported the temperature readings from Russia and didn’t take many other reports into account, . . . . Continue Reading »

I am continually amazed by the disconnect in the media regarding the assisted suicide issue between what is actually happening and the supposed ideal.  Case in point, in a majority of Members of Parliament supposedly think that physicians should have the right to assist the suicides of the . . . . Continue Reading »