Wesley J. Smith

President Obama wants unelected bureaucrats to control health care costs, and indeed, envisions using that goal as an excuse for constructing a bureaucratic state.But why not try capitalism first?  The SF Chronicle has an interesting story about a couple of on-line start ups that help . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama metaphorically tried to burn the right of public religious practice at the stake with his authoritarian Free Birth Control Rule.  Now, the Catholic Church and scores of Catholic Institutions, including Notre Dame University, sueth. From the CNS story:The Archdiocese of New . . . . Continue Reading »

“Victim celebrities,” Ralph Nader calls them, by which he means, people who have been victimized by an abusive act or policy.  They often make the best political activists against it because they bring the principle down to the personal level.But there are also “celebrity . . . . Continue Reading »

Why do some life scientists insist on trying to reduce what we are as human beings to the lowest common biological denominator? Here I was minding my own business, reading the New York Times Book Review to raise my blood pressure, and there it is again: Humans are just pond . . . . Continue Reading »

An Indian surrogate mother has died as a consequence of renting her uterus to a Western woman. From the Daily News and Analysis story:Renting out her womb to a US couple cost Amraiwadi resident Premila Vaghela, 36, her life. Trying to give a child to the couple, she died on Monday . . . . Continue Reading »

In a victory (of sorts) for human rights, and a good piece of diplomacy by the Obama Administration, the persecuted Chinese human rights activist, Chen Gugangchen, has been freed from the national gulag that is the People’s Republic of China. He’s coming to “study” in . . . . Continue Reading »

Never in my life have I seen such widespread formal resistance by the states to a federal law than we have witnessed with Obamacare. Even during the Civil Rights struggles, there were far fewer states in revolt than we see now.  And polls continue to show majorities of the people wanting . . . . Continue Reading »

The It’s-Okay-to-Kill-the Sick-Crowd intentionally blur distinctions and destroy definitions in their quest for legalizing/normalizing doctor-prescribed death and even, Final Exit Network ghoul helium terminations. It really disgusts me.One of their favorite moves in this regard is . . . . Continue Reading »

A neurologist named Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna tells of a potential treatment for persistent vegetative state.  From the MSNBC report:Researchers from the University of Munich recently reported that they were able to awaken an 82-year-old woman who’d been in a persistent vegetative state by . . . . Continue Reading »

We are individuals, not statistics. But don’t tell that to the healthcare technocrats, who are now strongly urging that the NHS give all people over 50 prescribed statin drugs to lower the risk of heart attack—even people who don’t have any apparent need for the drugs.  . . . . Continue Reading »