Wesley J. Smith

The media are suicide promoters—in the way some journalists report stories about assisted suicide, and especially among the punditry, so many of whom extol suicide in their columns.Case in point, St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan, who extols an elderly man’s suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

For the latest PETA antic, check out the most recent entry at A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, my blog on animal . . . . Continue Reading »

Investor’s Business Daily has a powerful editorial deconstruction of health care rationing, using the dysfunctional Oregon Medicaid system as its archetype.  From the editorial:Advocates of a nationalized single-payer arrangement, typically found on the political left, don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

The current national health care plans being written in the Congress would require every one of us to purchase private health insurance. From the USA Today editorial supporting the idea:In a nation where 46 million people are uninsured, it is one of the most direct routes toward universal, or near . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been hearing from SHS subscribers that they are not receiving the posts.  Sorry about that.  The best remedy is to resubscribe.  Just hit the “blog rss” link directly to the right of this text, and then hit the subscribe link where indicated. And, of course, new . . . . Continue Reading »

The Center for Bioethics and Culture is distributing the documentary Lines That Divide: The Great Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, about embryonic stem cell research.  From the film’s summary:First, the viewer is introduced to the basic science of stem cells and how they are gathered for . . . . Continue Reading »

Legislation has been introduced that would give a tax credit for 30% of legal costs incurred, maximum $500, for the legal expenses incurred in filling out an advance health care directive (HR 2705). The hope, I am sure, is that people will eschew extensive efforts to save themselves, and . . . . Continue Reading »

I have warned before that the anti-humanism of Deep Ecology is seeping into the messages of A-List Hollywood films. In previous posts and articles, I pointed to two recent major movies, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still —in which an alien comes to earth to kill all humans, literally . . . . Continue Reading »

The climate change hysteria is driving us mad.  We have been told that the climate is the worst threat in the history of the planet. Even though the climate has been much warmer than now and humans not only survived, but the Vikings colonized and farmed Greenland, . . . . Continue Reading »

A new kit that allows pregnant women to test the gender of their fetus is about to be marketed—opening up the door to sex selection abortions. As I point out at Secondhand Smoke : How ironic that a procedure [abortion] intended by its supporters to liberate women is likely to become a . . . . Continue Reading »