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Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.

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When Suicide Becomes a Verb

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Philip—let disturbed teens have access to suicide pills—Nitschke constantly reveals the death cult obsession that permeates the suicide/euthanasia  movement.  In the current episode, he warns his cult followers that helium as a death agent may  no longer be undetectable . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare: Sweetheart Deal for Unions

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Union members will apparently be excused from paying the tax on Cadillac policies that all other such policy holders will pay. From the story : “Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help . . . . Continue Reading »

Proposition 71 a “Failure”

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Investor’s Business Daily opines that Proposition 71 has been a failure.  From its editorial:California’s Proposition 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not — either because of . . . . Continue Reading »

Coup de Culture: Sex Robots

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Pathetic.  Now, as if conjured from that great sci fi flick Westworld, comes the sex robot. From the story:Mr Hines said: “She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean. “She’s a companion. She has a personality. She . . . . Continue Reading »