Wesley J. Smith

In my last post, I suggested that the global warming hysterics are just crackers.  Here’s another example. The UN’s top climate bureaucrat says that we have to dig deeper into our already empty pockets. From the story:Yvo de Boer, the United Nations’ top climate official, said . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been pondering our sharp political and cultural divides recently, and it has become depressingly clear to me that true “debate” has become nearly impossible on many issues.  I first brought this up publicly in my debate with Gregory Stock on genetic engineering of . . . . Continue Reading »

Hypocrisy, thy name is global warming hysteric: Al Gore with his four houses and huge appetite for electricity, “green” movie stars with their limos (Ed Begley excepted), etc. Don’t expect the NYT and other American MSM to report this story, but the Telegraph nailed the hypocrisy . . . . Continue Reading »

My pal Steven Hayward (of the American Enterprise Institute) has a funny—and telling—blog entry over at The Corner. Apparently Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois, one of the big global warming scientists, is mad at a NY Times reporter for reporting that Copenhagen . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Art Caplan has weighed in against my Weekly Standard column.  But he misses, or at least, fails to address, the primary point of the column.  From his blog:Wesley Smith has a new column out, in which he inappropriately uses the case in Belgium of Rom Houben to argue that . . . . Continue Reading »

I am hearing some back stage grumbling that I included Terri Schiavo in my Weekly Standard article about the Rom Houben situation when they had different neurological conditions. There is no question in my mind that Terri was not in a locked in state and that Houben is. But so what? I was not . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been very interested that much of the reacton to the Rom Houben case—the man misdiagnosed for 23 years as being unconscious—ultimately gets back to Terri Schiavo. Indeed, she remains so much with us that every time we hear about the newest “miraculous” awakening, we . . . . Continue Reading »

The USA didn’t participate in Kyoto because Al Gore signed an agreement allowing the USA to be bound by carbon dioxide emission cuts, but not China and India—this despite a unanimous vote in the US Senate beforehand opposing such a proposal.  You see, the impossibility . . . . Continue Reading »

Some Obamacare supporters want to tax cosmetic surgical procedure as a way of helping pay for its costs.  I am no fan of cosmetic surgery, but oppose taxing it on principle, as I wrote here.At the time, I had no idea feminism has devolved into what we could call “Victoria’s Secret . . . . Continue Reading »

I have an article in the current Weekly Standard on the Rom  Houben case. I find it fascinating that Terri Schiavo—and what happened to her—is the subtext of the entire event. From my article:The case of Terri Schiavo—who died five years ago next March, deprived for nearly two . . . . Continue Reading »