Wesley J. Smith

There was a thoughtful opionion article in the New York Times Sunday about industrial farming and the potential over use of antibiotics to keep the animals from becoming infected. I found myself in complete agreement with the approach and, as a consequence, very open to the . . . . Continue Reading »

As the coup de culture progresses, hedonism increases, leading to some decadent behaviors that are destructive to intrinsic human dignity.  Bestiality is one such behavior, and in Washington State, a man has alleged to have, in effect, pimped his animals for sex.  From the disgusting . . . . Continue Reading »

I was going to joke that someone would say the current volcano in Iceland was caused by global warming. But as I always say, you can’t get ahead of them—if you say something sarcastically, someone will make the same claim seriously.For example, I used to kid to human unexceptionalists . . . . Continue Reading »

Ah, the Dutch: Having jumped off a vertical moral cliff when it comes to doctors killing patients, they seek to replace virtue with “transparency” through official reporting.  The idea is that control over such practices can be maintained if the homicides are done in front of an . . . . Continue Reading »

Why I refuse to use Skype Video during my radio . . . . Continue Reading »

I now know the time of my debate with animal rights movement leader Gary Francione, who promotes “abolition” and veganism, toward the end  of eventually prohibiting all animal domesticaion—including dogs.  He believes that sentience gives one the “right” not . . . . Continue Reading »

About a month ago, I traveled to Seattle to give a speech at the Discovery Institute about my new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. The event was covered by C-Span and is now available for viewing by hitting this link.This is the third time one of . . . . Continue Reading »

The revisionist project to create a fictional Jack Kevorkian as merely a lovable, if sometimes tactless, man of compassion—rather the misanthropic and ghoulish nut that he really is—continues.  (See Kevorkian paintings I uploaded to accompany this post.  He sometimes used human . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare passed.  Large companies were forced to take hundreds of millions of charges on their profit/loss statements.  The intimidator, Representative Henry Waxman, was  outraged and called a committee hearing to flay the offending companies’ CEOs.  Except—taking . . . . Continue Reading »

Here in California, our collapsing economy is being pushed even further into the abyss by Gov. Schwartzenegger’s misguided “green” laws.  (When Arnold found the going tough in staunching our arterial budget bleed out, he shrugged his shoulders and worked with the Left . . . . Continue Reading »