Wesley J. Smith

President Obama promised repeatedly, as he sold the snake oil, “If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.”  It was mendacious then, and has proved to be utterly mendacious now.Today, if you or your company changes your health plan, you have to abide by . . . . Continue Reading »

Have you noticed that this entire Obama anti Free Exercise of Religion brouhaha is occurring outside of direct representative governance where the people can actually exert some sway?  It is a regulatory requirement that was never part of the original Obamacare bill.  Indeed, there would . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in the Daily Caller describing another in a long series of articles in professional journals arguing that it should be acceptable to kill for organs. From “The Killing-for-Organs Pushers:”If you want to see where our culture may next go off the rails, read  . . . . Continue Reading »

The Obama Administration may have successfully pulled a fast one in its revision of the Free Birth Control Rule.  True, non church religious organizations will not have to pay for a policy that covers birth control.  But employees will be able to go to the same insurer and obtain the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Great Birth Control Rule debacle is coming to an end with the unconstitutionalists in the Obama Administration taking a step back in their drive to “transform” America from a constitutional republic of limited government into an entitlement state.  The brouhaha raised about . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post’s superb pundit, Charles Krauthammer—a secular Jew (I believe)—demolishes President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a column decrying the anti constitutional Free Birth Control Rule promulgated under Obamacare as it affects Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA has had its outrageous lawsuit claiming that whales are “slaves” thrown out of court. From the AP story:An effort to free whales from Sea World by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday. A federal judge in San Diego dismissed . . . . Continue Reading »

Boy, for all the criticizing of religion by secularists, many sure seem to want to be considered “religious.”  First, there is the proposal to erect a “Temple of Atheisim.” Now, a soldier wants the U.S. Military to recognize humanism as a religion.  From the AP . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, this isn’t good.  Those Himalayan glaciers that were supposed to have disappeared by 2035 according to the IPCC (since retracted as nonsense), haven’t even shrunk in ten years.  From the Guardian story:The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the issue of “medical conscience” often here over the years, a social trend in which we see doctors threatened with the ability to practice medicine if they don’t adhere to the modern anti Hippocratic view.  For example, in Victoria, Australia, . . . . Continue Reading »