Wesley J. Smith

Senator Ben Nelson got as much lucre for Nebraska as he could, and with Joe Lieberman, killed the public option.  He also appears to have obtained an abortion compromise that would allow states to opt out of abortion coverage, which would result in huge swaths of the USA free . . . . Continue Reading »

As the Obama Administration pretends that Copenhagen was a major breakthrough, the hysterics are furious at their failure to gain control of the world’s economies and governance.  From the story:Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: “The city of Copenhagen is a crime . . . . Continue Reading »

My pal Nat Hentoff—a self-described “Jewish, atheist, civil libertarian, pro lifer”—gave an interview to the Rutherford Institute.  Nat has been around a long time—he was close with the Beat Poets, for example—and as the interviewer states, because he sticks . . . . Continue Reading »

I just watched President Obama on television. There will be no binding agreement coming out of Copenhagen, meaning that the conference failed.  That’s to be celebrated, not because of anything personal, but because no deal is good for the country and good for the world. More details and . . . . Continue Reading »

I am very weary of President Obama’s—and people of his ilk such as Al Gore’s—presumption that they get to say when the debate is over.  The president pulled that card out of his pocket again in Copenhagen.  From the story:“I have to be honest, as the world . . . . Continue Reading »

File this in the “I Wish I Had Written This” file.  A UK pundit named Gerald Warner has poured forth a terrific polemic against Copenhagen.  I enjoyed it not only because I agree wholeheartedly with his view of what we are beholding, but because it is a splendid example of the . . . . Continue Reading »

This whole global warming scam increasingly seem to me like a snake eating its own tale.  In Switzerland, a scientist looking for renewable energy deep in the earth has been sued for causing earthquakes.  From the story:A geologist has gone on trial in Switzerland for allegedly causing . . . . Continue Reading »

The hysteria gets deeper and more, well, hysterical.  Now, we are told, even if there is a deal at Copenhagen, we’re all still doomed!  Aaaaaugh!  From the story:A leaked UN document emerged that shows the current proposals for a deal at Copenhagen will ‘put at risk the . . . . Continue Reading »

The medical marijuana movement is being increasingly corrupted to the point that pot is being made generally available, with people using it to get high scurrilously coopting the real health needs of sick people as the pretext for gaining access to their drug.  Now, marijuana-laced food is to . . . . Continue Reading »

Our obsession with preventing all suffering could result one day in being involuntarily drugged with a psychotropic.    According to the New York Times Magazine, scientists are seriously proposing that lithium one day be put in the water supply. From the story:In The British Journal of . . . . Continue Reading »