Wesley J. Smith

The Senate Obamacare bill seeks to stifle freedom by preventing further legislation that might change the terms of what it seeks to impose on our country.  From a blog over at the Weekly Standard:Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) pointed out some rather astounding language in the Senate health care . . . . Continue Reading »

The artificial market in carbon dioxide imposed on Europe by global warming hysterics, plunged after the Copenhagen debacle. From the story:Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union’s . . . . Continue Reading »

It is unthinkable that in a free country like the UK, that girls are subjected to genital mutilation. From the story:Hundreds of British schoolgirls are facing the terrifying prospect of female genital mutilation (FGM) over the Christmas holidays as experts warn the practice continues to flourish . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a new What It Means to be Human podcast out, in which I describe the brave new world agenda and my optimism in the human capacity to control our own future. “We are not helpless against the admittedly powerful forces of technological change,” I say.  “Rather than . . . . Continue Reading »

The picture at the right is of Secondhand Smoke—at least if one listens to Rhode Island Senator Whitehouse. He claims opponents of Obamacare are nothing but a bunch of racists and right wing fanatics who wish President Obama didn’t even exist. From the story quoting the . . . . Continue Reading »

I just knew the global warming  that hysterics wouldn’t learn humility from their recent debacle. Unable to impose their will in Copenhagen, some of the more hysterical warmers apparently now want to junk the UN approach and impose their will on the world by a supposed . . . . Continue Reading »

As I have often warned, the next big agenda item in organ transplant medicine is gaining license for transplant surgeons to kill the cognitively devastated and imminently dying patients for their organs.   Such a policy is pushed from two different angles, both of which try to convince us . . . . Continue Reading »

Copenhagen is over, and it is even less than met the eye yesterday.  In fact, the “deal” isn’t even really a deal. From the story:After intense overnight wrangling, delegates from 192 countries on Saturday passed a motion simply “noting” a loose deal aimed at . . . . Continue Reading »

Sigh. Even Native Americans are the bad guys when hysterical scientists start pounding the End Of the World Drum.  A new study predicts that we will cause a mass extinction worse than what happened to the dinosaurs.  From the story:The study of the fossil and archaeological record over the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning that the politicization of science and the attempt to turn it into an ideology—even a religion—would badly undermine the public’s confidence.  Indeed, I warned that the outrageous stem cell hyping, the global warming hysteria, and the clear suppression of . . . . Continue Reading »