Wesley J. Smith

I have no regard for Newt Gingrich.  None.  As he prepares to run for POTUS—can you imagine?—he is now attacking the EPA for its excesses in fighting global warming.  From the story:Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Tuesday for the elimination of the Environmental . . . . Continue Reading »

The Netherlands is a lovely country where many people have eschewed true compassion—the root meaning of which is to “suffer with”—to promote suicide as the answer to human difficulty.  Euthanasia is available via lethal injection for the terminally ill, the chronically . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, this is so not going to sow panic.  Rather than disappearing, some of the glaciers in the Himalayas are actually growing.  From the story:Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing . . . . Continue Reading »

More and more companies and  unions are asking for Obamacare waivers to keep afloat.  And the administration is understandably defensive.  From the HHS Press Release:The Affordable Care Act is designed to provide Americans with affordable, high-quality coverage options – while . . . . Continue Reading »

I came to this conclusion very reluctantly, but single payer must be rejected because it leads directly to terrible rationing in times of economic difficulty—as I wrote in the Weekly Standard this week. And now California is threatening to cut MediCal patients off kidney dialysis! From the . . . . Continue Reading »

Two big promises President Obama made about Obamacare—that it would cut jobs and allow us all to keep our current health care plan—have been labeled “more likely false than true” by a Congressional independent financial analyst.  And they cut to the core of the sales . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacarians assure us that the new law prohibits coverage for abortion.  That’s not true.  It was merely one of the many shell games played by its supporters. The law left to the bureaucracy to include abortion as an indirectly covered procedure in subsidized state . . . . Continue Reading »

The Burlington Free Press has a front page story today on suicide prevention.  From the story:Vermont school administrators, guidance counselors and teachers routinely receive training on how to prevent teen suicides, but mental health experts say even with intervention, not every life can be . . . . Continue Reading »

When I wrote here about the restaurant planning on serving lion tacos, I said it would never happen.  And, as is usually the case when I put on my prophesying hat, I was right.  From the story:An Arizona restaurant has scrapped plans to offer African lion meat in its tacos. Bryan Mazon, . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been fighting against euthanasia since 1992.  All that time, I have been waiting for patient killing to be coupled with organ harvesting. Now it has—in Belgium.  Doctors have even taken to the road to promote the idea. From the story: A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting . . . . Continue Reading »