Wesley J. Smith

The ACA sought to expand Medicaid to people 133% above the poverty line though a carrot and stick approach. The stick threatened to kick  non complying states out of Medicaid by eliminating the current federal contributions—even to maintain existing coverage. . . . . Continue Reading »

Eugenics is alive in well in the ongoing search and destroy mission seeking to wipe people with Down syndrome and other genetic anomalies off the face of the earth. In New Zealand, the government apparently is so overt in its pre natal targeting that a criminal complaint filed by a Saving . . . . Continue Reading »

Palliative sedation is a legitimate form of pain control that is required in only very rare cases. But death squad medicine advocates seek to use it as a way of making people die by putting them in comas and then denying food and water, something that is sometimes called terminal sedation.The . . . . Continue Reading »

I ran across a story in the San Francisco Chronicle , in which scientists are studying the brains of Buddhist nuns and monks in order to see what “compassion” looks like.  But Buddhism isn’t about compassion, properly understood.  Buddhists seek to become detached from, . . . . Continue Reading »

Two thoughts: First, Buddhism tends to be the favorite religion of liberalism.  No God. No sin. No judgmentalism.  Plenty of consequences—karma and all, but I think that gets forgotten.  Second, I am not a scientist, but it seems to me that these days, scientific hypotheses . . . . Continue Reading »

I case in the UK raised my eyebrow—as so much happening there does these days. A convicted murderer in a mental hospital wants to starve himself to death, but can’t because he is not in a prison—where he apparently could.  From the Telegraph story:Brady, 74, had been . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a lot of talk about repealing Obamacare under “reconciliation,” that is, by a majority vote not subject to a Senate filibuster.  Since the mandate has been made into a tax by the wave of Chief Justice Roberts’ magic wand, that might work.  But even though the . . . . Continue Reading »

The “all clear” has sounded.Yesterday, across Google, Facebook, Firefox, etc. people who wanted to read this blog were warned that doing so could harm their computers. The brilliant IT guy at First Things—thanks Joe!—has successfully defended against the attack, however it . . . . Continue Reading »

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A sign of the times: From the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Public Eavesdropping” feature in Leah Garchik’s column:“The doctor takes an egg from the mom, pokes a hole in it, puts a seed from the dad inside the egg and puts the embryo back in the mom.”- Fourth-grader . . . . Continue Reading »