Wesley J. Smith

I hope this is true. From Red State:With John Roberts’ opinion, the repeal fight takes place on GOP turf, not Democrat turf.  The all or nothing repeal has always been better ground for the GOP and now John Roberts has forced everyone onto that ground.  Oh, and as I mentioned . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote a quick piece for the Daily Caller about the Obamacare ruling that gets to the nub of what happened today. From “Obamacare Ruling Reflects Technocratic Imperative:”Why is anyone surprised? Obamacare was never going to be overturned. Not that it is constitutional, as the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is amazing that in their zeal to validate Obamacare, the Supreme Court majority gave the government relief for which it didn’t ask!  From the ruling:In making its Commerce Clause argument, the Government defended the mandate as a regulation requiring individuals to purchase health . . . . Continue Reading »

Those who claimed that Obamacare violated the Commerce Clause were right. From the Supreme Court ruling:People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures—joined with the similar failures of others—can readily . . . . Continue Reading »

It appears that the Supremes have rewritten the law in order to uphold it.  They simply call a penalty a tax, even though it was expressly stated not to be a tax. Why?  Precisely for the reasons I predicted: The Supreme Court has vastly expanded the power of the federal government since . . . . Continue Reading »

An adult chimp has killed a baby chimp at the LA Zoo. From the story:The first chimpanzee baby born at the LA Zoo in 13 years was mauled to death Tuesday by an adult chimp in front of a crowd of visitors, including children, zoo officials said. Did the baby chimp have a “right to . . . . Continue Reading »

Religious freedom is supposed to be a touchstone of liberty. But many secularists so disdain faith that they refuse to abide by the principle—or more commonly, attempt to shrink its parameters to a very limited “freedom of worship.” Now, in the aftermath of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Tomorrow is the big day in which we learn whether the U.S. Government now rules rather than governs us.  If Obamacare is upheld, what remains of the old order of limited government will be swept away and a new regime of top-down technocratic rule will become firmly entrenched, a system that . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Singer is a bigot. Not a racist. Not a sexist. But a bigot, nonetheless.He denies the equal value of the most vulnerable and defenseless human beings, indeed, asserting that so-called human “non persons” have lower value than some animals. And as always occurs . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been fighting euthanasia since 1993. During that time, I have been startled at what resonates emotionally with people about doctor-prescribed/administered death, and those matters which are generally shrugged off as of little concern.  If a sick person wants to die, . . . . Continue Reading »