Wesley J. Smith

New Jersey is creating a new end of life commission to recommend public policy around end-of-life care. From the legislation:    3.  The purpose of the advisory council shall be to conduct a thorough and comprehensive study of all issues that it deems appropriate for the . . . . Continue Reading »

To think some people take this guy seriously.  Chris Mooney has a Looney Tunes blog post out today blaming testosterone and the supposed need to dominate others for global warming skepticism among angry white male conservatives.  (Talk about cliched thinking!)It’s a real hoot.  . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an odd lawsuit.  A pro life Democrat, former Congressman Steve Driehaus, was accused by the Susan B. Anthony List in ads (such as the one to the left) of supporting government funding of abortion by voting for Obamacare.  He lost his campaign for reelection and sued SBAL for . . . . Continue Reading »

Sometimes I think some in our society would rewrite the First Amendment to read, “Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...or the right of the people peaceably to assemble—-unless you are a pro lifer.” Consider: Peaceful protesters are barred from . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare seizes control of health care and centralizes control over benefits and prices into an unaccountable centralized bureaucracy. That turns health care into a source of special interest larding, that will become important to buying the loyalty of the Democratic Party’s many and varied . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette has a terrific column out in today’s San Francisco Chronicle reviewing  the book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls by Mara Hvistendahl. Hvistendahl, no pro lifer, demonstrates that because of sex selection abortion, there are 160 million fewer women and . . . . Continue Reading »

The attacks against human exceptionalism are many and varied, mostly coming out of what is sometimes called the Liberal Intellegentsia. Explicit case in point by the founder of “Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” professor emeritus (of course!) Mark Bekoff.  Writing . . . . Continue Reading »

It has come to my attention that some SHSers might be interested in following me on Twitter. Mostly,I use it to Tweet SHS posts, but I also, from time to time, comment on matters irrelevant here, which I find myself doing more often lately. My Tweet handle is “forcedexit” for anyone so . . . . Continue Reading »

This is anecdotal, but  worth retelling.  A trustworthy FOSHS (Friend of Secondhand Smoke) sent me this email about what happened when his 4-year-old nephew saw some people digging with shovels in the mountains:Just got back from camping up at Donner Lake with my extended family.  We . . . . Continue Reading »

We dehydrate profound cognitively disabled people to death in the USA—a death that comes slowly over about a two week period, often resultin in tissue cracking and even bleeding.  We dress it up in nice clothes by claiming we are merely withdrawing unwanted medical treatment.  But . . . . Continue Reading »