Wesley J. Smith

I’ve long said that the magic number to kill Obamacare was %35.  But with the election in Massachusetts, I think %38 will do. From the story:Only three in ten Americans say they want Congress to pass legislation similar to the health care reform bills that have already been approved by . . . . Continue Reading »

The chaos that is California’s medical marijuana “system” took another turn today as Los Angeles is on the verge of closing down most dispensaries.  From the story:The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively approved an ordinance to close most of the city’s . . . . Continue Reading »

There is no country more in the global warming tank than the UK.  Thus, it is notable that the government’s lead adviser on science issues admits that climate scientists have hyped global warming, and further, urges that they open the books and interact with skeptics. From the story:The . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked by First Things to write an “On the Square” essay about the awful comments by the novelist Martin Amis, who yearned for “euthanasia boxes” to be placed on every corner to do away with the “stinking” elderly.  I did.  From my piece, . . . . Continue Reading »

In 1992, Jack Kevorkian proposed establishing a pilot program of euthanasia clinics, which, he argued in the Journal of Forensic Pathology, would be staffed by physician-killers, permitted legally to painlessly terminate patients who request it… . Continue Reading »

The February Issue Is Here!
01.25.2010
The Editors

How did we get here, to this curious and unexpected place? We could never have imagined, for instance, we’d live to see the day a book of the Bible is illustrated by an R-rated comic-strip cartoonist… . Continue Reading »

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I’ve been trying to not post about global warming today, but it has been hard.  Over the last several months, the entire facade of the “scientific consensus” has been exposed as more about politics than science. And in the wake of NASA’s claim that the last decade was . . . . Continue Reading »

I knew that global warming hysteria had badly infected Europe several years ago. Secondhand Smokette and I sojourned in France and countries Nordic. We met a friend who is a diplomat for a European country.  He really hated President Bush, surprisingly, not because of Iraq—he thought we . . . . Continue Reading »

Disgraceful: A UN scientist has admitted he included the nonsense about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035—even though he knew it had not been scientifically verified—to put political pressure on regional government leaders. From the story:The scientist behind the bogus claim in a . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh dear, oh dear: The UN’s IPCC has been caught getting it hysterically wrong again.  First, it was the false claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035—which turned out to be one man’s conjecture—since withdrawn—published in New Scientist.  . . . . Continue Reading »