Wesley J. Smith

Shades of the Kevorkian anarchy.  In the UK,  a husband put a plastic bags over the head of his wife, then piped in gas to make her die, and because she consented, law enforcement does nothing.  From the story:Michael Bateman put a bag over his wife Margaret’s head and inserted . . . . Continue Reading »

This would have been a bigger story in the USA where patients still have the right to fight these things.  In New Zealand, doctors forced a badly injured teenager—Kimberly McNeill, center in the photo at left—off of life support.  But contrary to their certainty, she . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s almost a game.  An unusual weather event happens and the GWHs leap to the conclusion that this is EXACTLY WHAT WE PREDICTED from global warming!  Think, Katrina. Think the recent arctic weather.  Think the Russian heatwave of 2010.And yet, it usually turns out not to be . . . . Continue Reading »

A court in the UK has protected the job of a believer in animal rights on the basis of the legal ban against religious discrimination.  From the story:A prominent animal rights campaigner yesterday won a landmark ruling that his beliefs should be  protected from discrimination at work in . . . . Continue Reading »

Eugenics is both profoundly wrong and extremely dangerous in that it divides human beings into better and worse categories, which leads to great evil; oppression, exploitation, and killing.We saw that with the first eugenics, invented by the English statistician Francis Galton, who posited a . . . . Continue Reading »

I didn’t bother to post about the Obamacarians giving more than 1000 waivers for their disastrous law.  I’ll wait until it hits 1500, which the way things are going, should be very soon.  But this is noteworthy: It has now given the State of Maine a waiver. From the story:The . . . . Continue Reading »

The government filed its appeal of Judge Vinson’s ruling declaring Obamacare unconstitutional today. The govt. is also supposed to ask for an expedited hearing. We’ll see if that happens.  In any event,  this probably means the stay will remain in effect allowing the law to . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece up at The Corner that I think is worth pondering.  Last Sunday, the NYT published an op/ed by a condemned prisoner named Christian Longo, who viciously murdered his entire family, claiming he was so filled with remorse over his crimes that he wanted to be executed and donate his . . . . Continue Reading »

The other day, I posted a critique here of a commentary published in the New York Times by a condemned prisoner from Oregon who says he wants to donate his organs after execution.  I realized that in his supposed “guilt,” he hadn’t bothered to mention the names of his killed . . . . Continue Reading »

They just keep on rolling.  Scientists have used cells from patients’ own bodies to build new urethras.  From the story:The boys were ages 10 to 14 at the time of the surgery. Three were accident victims, and the other two had suffered failures of traditional urethra grafts. The . . . . Continue Reading »