Wesley J. Smith

This undoubtedly isn’t true, nor do I really want it to be because it would involve assault. But still, the premise has definite appeal. From the “story:”Johnstown, PA (GlossyNews) – Local and state police scoured the hills outside rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after reports . . . . Continue Reading »

“The scientists” are on the warpath because global warming hysteria has been questioned and due to the substantial loss of credibility in global warming science itself  in recent months.  (The two things are not synonyms.)  But that is no excuse to further undermine the . . . . Continue Reading »

I just came across a blog called Civil Religion in the St. Louis Post Dispatch that eloquently applied the “duties” side of human exceptionalism with regard to the BP catastrophe. From “BP Oil Disaster & Human Responsibility: We Did This,”  by Sharon Autenrieth:I . . . . Continue Reading »

Good for Secretary State Hillary Clinton for focusing on the problems in the USA with sex trafficking.  From the story:There are thousands of modern-day “slaves” in America - girls and boys forced into the sex trade, and men and women held in debt bondage, Secretary of State Clinton . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the things about our current cultural milieu that  has always puzzled me is the drive to create an absolute fundamental right to procreate—and the concomitant push to permit an absolute and fundamental right to destroy unborn life.  (You know how it goes: Today, the child is . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently some of the richest people in Silicon Valley have caught the transhumanism bug—Google types, no less. An extensive article in Sunday’s New York Times’ business section tells the story. From. “Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday:”ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you imagine?  An Aussie lives near a high cliff from which suicidal people jump. And he tries to stop them!  From the story:In those bleak moments when the lost souls stood atop the cliff, wondering whether to jump, the sound of the wind and the waves was broken by a soft voice. . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed lately that my posts are increasingly verbose.  (Well, after all, I am a lawyer, and so short winded is not my strong suit. )  Other blogs that have longer posts often abridge them on the home page, with a link to the rest of the post for those who want to read the . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the primary agenda items in animal rights advocacy is obtaining for animals the right to sue in their own names.  Known as “animal standing,”  allowing animals to sue would empower activists to bring animal industries to their knees, as I describe more . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the biggest—yet little known—agenda items of the animal rights movement is what is known as animal standing, that is, granting animals the right to bring lawsuits (discussed in detail in my book and in this article on NRO).  (Of course, the real litigants would be animal . . . . Continue Reading »