Wesley J. Smith

It amazes me how an embryo is or isn’t an existing human life—depending on what the question is regarding the embryo being discussed.  In Argentina, a man fathered embryos via IVF, and then divorced.  His ex wants to be implanted with the embryos, but he says that would be . . . . Continue Reading »

“Get out of the lifeboat you expensive terminal cancer patients!  Sure, your lives could be extended months, maybe even years,—but it isn’t worth the money!  You’re going to die sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner.  We need the money for more . . . . Continue Reading »

With the EPA admitting it wants needs 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act, with all tens of thousands it admits the states will also need, add in the massive increase in bureaucratic power and control under Obamacare and other bureaucratic imperialisms out of the . . . . Continue Reading »

In.san.i.ty—as in “extreme folly or unreasonableness”!  The EPA admitted in a legal brief that its proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gasses beginning in 2016, would require 230,000 new employees to administer, but it wants to forge ahead anyway.  From the EPA’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Definitions matter.  That point hit me hard as I read an article that wants doctors to be given the right to stop treatment from a man diagnosed to be in a persistent unconscious condition.  From “When Family and Doctors Disagree on When to End life.”Hold on: Bad title! Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »

When will enough, finally, be enough.  Not only are organs now being sold by desperate people in destitute countries—to the point that some governments have been forced to ban organ transplant surgeries for non citizens or receiving organs from non relatives—but the practice is . . . . Continue Reading »

Yikes.  The former cancer head of the WHO has warned that soon, the best cancer treatments will be restricted to the rich. From the Telegraph story: The most effective cancer treatments could become the “preserve of the rich” with the cost to the NHS rising towards £1 million . . . . Continue Reading »

Bullfighting is a relic from the Roman arena, in which people get caught up in a blood lust by the torture and killing of bulls, mixed with the fear/anticipation that the matador could be gored.  And now, Catalonia has ended it legally.  From the Telegraph story:Audiences have been . . . . Continue Reading »

Some GWHs like to try to impose their policy views by stifling the debate about man made global warming.  “It’s the consensus!” they thunder—deaf to the irony that “science” isn’t determined by consensus.  “The skeptical scientists are on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Most of the grunge work of government is done by faceless bureaucrats, who write libraries full of societal enervating rules implementing what are essentially regulation-enabling statutes—often hundreds or even thousands of pages long.  Thus, Obamacare’s 2000 or so pages of skeletal . . . . Continue Reading »