Wesley J. Smith

As predictable as the timing of the tides, a left wing think tank blames global warming for the recent tornadoes.  But I must admit, Think Progress cut to the chase to save time when future weather events occur. From the blog entry “Storms Kill Over 250 Americans In States Represented By . . . . Continue Reading »

Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana has just had a political hot potato tossed in his lap.  He wants to run for president, it seems.  In an interview with the Weekly Standard’s Andy Ferguson some time back, he supported a “truce” in the culture wars, angering his pro life . . . . Continue Reading »

File this in the Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place File:  We are destroying our economy with by giving into global warming hysteria.  The Obama Adm. guaranteed a whopping federal loan guarantee of $2.1 billion to put a big solar power project in the Mojave Desert—which Jerry . . . . Continue Reading »

Baby Joseph is home, and apparently not as unconscious as the London hospital representative stated. From the story:Baby Joseph napping at home in his crib on Easter Sunday is all the proof his father needs that his Ontario doctors were wrong. Only months ago, the fate of 15-month-old Joseph . . . . Continue Reading »

Front page story in today’s SF Chronicle: “UCSF Taking Closer Look at ‘Calorie Restrictors.” From the story (no link until Saturday):Trent Arensault has eaten the same breakfast, lunch and dinner for the past four or five years: a fruit smoothie in the morning, a spinach . . . . Continue Reading »

When I heard the news that she had died, I realized I hadn’t thought about the singer Phoebe Snow for many years.  It turns out that was because she gave up stardom to care for her disabled child.  From her obituary:At the peak of her fame, in December 1975, she gave birth to a . . . . Continue Reading »

Academia grows increasingly loony—and the cause is rejecting human exceptionalism.  Our latest example comes from the new field of “animal ethics,” where some academics want us to stop insulting our dogs and cats by calling them “pets.”  From the story: Animal . . . . Continue Reading »

Academic Freedom.  Don’t you love it?  I do. But I have noticed in my work that these days, AF tends to be a one way street—protecting those with “approved” views, but leaving heterodox thinkers twisting in the wind of denied tenure, teaching  . . . . Continue Reading »

Whatever one thinks of assisted suicide—and my position is abundantly clear to anyone following this blog for more than a day or two—when it is undertaken, the death certificate should so state.  But the Washington law legalizing assisted suicide legally requires doctors to falsify . . . . Continue Reading »

The Canadian Supreme Court already ruled that there is no constitutional right to assisted suicide.  But, the one thing you can say about assisted suicide activists—they never take no for an answer, they never quit.  And now, a new lawsuit is planned.  From the story:Nearly two . . . . Continue Reading »