Wesley J. Smith

Yesterday, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, in the wake of Jack Kevorkian’s demise, had a good column against legalizating assisted suicide. I didn’t post it because it closely tracked with what I have written here and elsewhere.  Now liberal Washington Post . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the issue of MM and SF’s proposed ban on circumcision until we are blue in the face, and so I am not permitting further comments here. But I thought some might be interested in this front page SF Chron story.Here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »

Way to go, Obamacarians!  Opponents warned that the law incentivized private employers to drop health insurance companies and pay the fines, that will be less expensive than providing coverage.  And now, a report published in the McKinsey Quarterly shows that 30% of employers are planning . . . . Continue Reading »

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vows not to cut Medicare.  From Politico: “There is a bipartisan discussion going on that is civil and constructive, and that they’ve come to some areas where they can possibly reach agreement. But nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not bringing this up to get back into the anti Semitic advocacy of MGMbill’s Foreskin Man and the vicious hate depiction of Monster Mohel, the psychopathic rabbi. If people want to weigh in on that topic further—although, what else is there to say that hasn’t already been . . . . Continue Reading »

This is apparently the official 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic, and it is, quite naturally, a big front page story in this morning’s SF Chronicle. When I moved to The City in 1992, the epidemic was at full roar, and it was God awful to behold.Things are much better now, but the monster . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief. Barbara Walters vividly illustrates how incompetently the media usually reported the Kevorkian story.  I mean, way back in 1992 she was already worried about K’s monicker, “Dr. Death,” apparently oblivious that he was called that because during medical school . . . . Continue Reading »

Continuing with my review of Kevorkian obituaries, we now turn to the revisionist history in the Washington Post. My jaw dropped—and I thought I had seen every angle possible in Kevorkian hagiography—when Post writer Sindya N. Banhoo actually credits Kevorkian with a short-lived assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

As we move along in our review of Kevorkian obits (Bloomberg Best in Field), we now turn to the New York—all the news we see fit to print—Times.  And of course, the paper of record, byline Keith Schneider, is often overly flattering to K, omits crucial facts, and is sometimes just . . . . Continue Reading »

I finally have some time to check out the MSM’s Kevorkian obits, and I must say, some of it is as revisionist as it gets.  Since I believe in accurate history, I think I’ll do a few posts correcting the record.Let’s start with the long Bloomberg story, byline Mark Schoifet, . . . . Continue Reading »