Wesley J. Smith

Medical care in the UK keeps getting worse. Now, it turns out that thousands of heart attack victims received less than optimal treatment to prevent another infarction. From the story:Thousands of women and older people who suffer heart attacks are dying unnecessarily because they are not being . . . . Continue Reading »

The NYT is flexing every one of its muscles to help pass Obamacare. The latest example is a softball Q and A from the always biased Deborah Solomon in the Magazine of Tom Daschle.  From the interview:Q:...do you get the sense that the Republicans have dropped out of the health care debate? That . . . . Continue Reading »

Former President Clinton has urged the passage of Obamacare because failing to do so will hurt Democrats. From the story:Both [Al] Gore and Clinton urged the party faithful to back their congressmen to get health care reform passed this year. “We need to pass a bill this year. Doing nothing is . . . . Continue Reading »

I worked my way through law school selling appliances and televisions for JC Penney. I did quite well, to the point that I actually took a small cut in pay when I accepted my first job as a lawyer.  During that time, I came to understand that over the long haul, good salesmanship depends on . . . . Continue Reading »

My pal and co-author of Power Over Pain, Dr. Eric Chevlen, has a very interesting piece in the On The Square feature here at First Things.  Eric is a deep thinker and a man of tremendous integrity, intellectual as well as personal.  He writes at length here—there is a reason they . . . . Continue Reading »

We are creating a world of  “outsourced ethics” (to quote my pal William Hurlbut), in which the rich West engages in or winks at corrupt or unethical behavior in poor countries toward the end of exploiting human bodies—living and dead—for profit.  Examples discussed . . . . Continue Reading »

The Montana Supreme Court  will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the appeal of a trial judge ruling creating  a state constitutional right to assisted suicide.  Assisted suicide is often depicted by advocates here as applying only to the terminally ill.  This is a political . . . . Continue Reading »

Terri Schiavo’s father, Robert Schindler, died last night of apparent heart failure at the age of 71. His health was broken by the ordeal of trying to save his daughter’s life and he never fully recovered from the horror of watching her dehydrate to death.  The family is . . . . Continue Reading »

Terri Schiavo’s father, Robert Schindler, died last night of apparent heart failure at the age of 71. His health was broken by the ordeal of trying to save his daughter’s life and he never fully recovered from the horror of watching her dehydrate to death.  The family is . . . . Continue Reading »

As President Obama’s health care prescription has sunk steadily in the polls, a few of its (and his) supporters are pulling the race card.  The latest example is an African-American Congresswoman named Diane Watson (a radical I remember very well from my days in LA). From the story:They . . . . Continue Reading »