Wesley J. Smith

This is good news.  The House of Representatives will vote next week to kill the authoritarian Independent Payment Advisory Board, one of Obamacare’s most egregious monstrosities. From The Hill story:Several Senate Democrats up for reelection tell The Hill they haven’t ruled out . . . . Continue Reading »

I predicted this in my annual prognistication: Unless something drastic happens, Vermont’s assisted suicide bill has been killed in committee.  Good riddance, says I.Interestingly, the Lieutenant Governor, who would break a tie vote in the Vermont Senate, pushed legalizing . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t publicly endorse candidates, not that it would make a whit of difference if I did.  I do try to cast light on issues germane to Secondhand Smoke as they arise.  Thus, I defended Rick Santorum twice; first, when he was more right than wrong in his criticism of Dutch . . . . Continue Reading »

Reason has a very good article by a physician worried about how government control over health care is deprofessionalizing medicine—a big concern of mine.  From “The Coming Medical Ethics Cristis, by Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer:In 2010 the Patient Protection and Affordable . . . . Continue Reading »

We talked yesterday about transhumanism reengineering us to be short to save the planet.  Now, Peter Singer supports coercion to keep us from being fat.  Hey! I have an idea: Promote smoking and cocaine and crack down on pot!But I digress. Singer is no democrat, by which I . . . . Continue Reading »

I have often thought that transhumanism and global warming hysteria were a natural couple.  The former blames humans for killing the planet, and the latter believes we can redesign ourselves to achieve eugenic ends.  I have joked that transhumanist GWHs should want us to shrink all our . . . . Continue Reading »

In all the screaming about “after-birth abortion,” another radical bioethics paper was published in the journal Bioethics. Rather than the benefit of doubt going to life in cases of diagnosed persistent unconsciousness, the author—a medical resident who received bioethics training . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare was only passed because supporters cooked the cost books with false assumptions and accounting maneuvers. Now, the CBO has nearly doubled the estimate of Obamacare’s cost.  From the Washington Examiner story:Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending . . . . Continue Reading »

My head is spinning.  The other day, we discussed the Portland case in which parents successfully sued doctors for wrongful birth, e.g., negligently performing prenatal tests so the parents didn’t abort their daughter child with Down syndrome. Now in Alabama, doctors can be sued . . . . Continue Reading »

If New Mexico wants to legalize assisted suicide, it is free to so do. But it hasn’t, and so a lawsuit will be filed to impose it by judicial fiat, a tactical move that has failed previously in Connecticut, Florida, Alaska, and California, in front of the US Supreme Court, . . . . Continue Reading »