Wesley J. Smith

The American media are utterly uninterested in the many problems that have been reliably reported with Oregon assisted suicide. Instead, they take the facile “statistics” published each year by the state at face value—interview some supporters of PAS—and then blithely assure . . . . Continue Reading »

Not good: NHS hospitals are apparently struggling with vermin infestations. From the story:Ants in operating theatres and maternity, cockroaches in x-ray and mice in A&E are some of the 30,000 pest infestations in NHS hospitals over the last four years, figures have revealed.Data released under . . . . Continue Reading »

Hat tip to Francis Beckwith over at First Thoughts: The Washington Post’s Charles Lane analyzes the notorious section 1233 of the House health care reform bill, the part dealing with end of life counseling. From the story:Section 1233, however, addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting . . . . Continue Reading »

Sarah Palin is communicating these days on Facebook.  Yesterday, she weighed in on Obamacare—worrying about its rationing implications, certainly a legitimate concern. But she used incendiary and frankly, amateur-sounding terms like “death boards” and . . . . Continue Reading »

The handwriting is on the wall everywhere you look about universal health care: If you provide almost all things medical to all people, you are going to have a fiscal crisis.  That’s just common sense. No matter how eloquently our  president tries to pretend otherwise, . . . . Continue Reading »

Sarah Palin has weighed in against Obamacare, worrying that centralized control over what is (and is not) covered could result in rationing against the most weak and vulnerable.  From the story:Palin, in her first policy statement since resigning as Alaska governor, wrote on her Facebook page . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been repeatedly asked when my podcast for the Discovery Institute, What It Means To Be Human, will return. Soon, my pretties.  Very soon.The problem had to do with the time pressure of other work and personal matters. Then, my laptop crashed and burned.  My new system has Vista and . . . . Continue Reading »

      I continue to scratch my head over the response of Obamacare supporters to the concern about Medicare “end of life” counseling sessions. Liberal Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman, for example, scorns the worry as a . . . . Continue Reading »

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This is the kind of action that PETA and many other “mainstream” animal rights groups refuse to condemn. The vacation home of a drug company executive was torched and his mother’s ashes stolen. From the story:British animal rights activists have been accused of burning down a . . . . Continue Reading »