Wesley J. Smith

Yellow journalism helped push the USA into war back in the 1890s.  Now, a new yellow journalism has developed using all the tricks of the trade to panic the world into granting tremendous power to an unelected and unaccountable global warming scientocracy, that will “save the . . . . Continue Reading »

The global warming hysterics gave a rousing standing O to the Marxist thug Hugo Chavez at Copenhagen.  From the story:President Chavez brought the house down. When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, . . . . Continue Reading »

Not that I trust the Russians, given their oil/gas stake in the global warming agenda, but this charge of data manipulation is too important to be ignored: A Russian institute is claiming the CRU misreported the temperature readings from Russia and didn’t take many other reports into account, . . . . Continue Reading »

I am continually amazed by the disconnect in the media regarding the assisted suicide issue between what is actually happening and the supposed ideal.  Case in point, in a majority of Members of Parliament supposedly think that physicians should have the right to assist the suicides of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Arnold Schwarzenegger, my failure as a governor, has gone to Copenhagen to save the world. From the story:California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told delegates that the “planetary transformation” needed to tackle climate change could not be the work of national governments alone. He . . . . Continue Reading »

In my recent predictions for 2010, I prognosticated that Obamacare will pass without the public option.  Today, Senator Lieberman said he will vote for the bill because the PO is out.  That could be the magic 60th vote, although abortion remains a potential impediment.  But what about . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, oh. It turns out that glaciers melted faster in the 1940s than now—because the sun was stronger.  And when the sun got weaker, they advanced.  What a concept!  From an Investor’s Business Daily editorial:Scientists at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology have . . . . Continue Reading »

Al Gore predicted direly that “new” information coming to his attention predicts an ice free arctic in 2014.  Oh no!!! Stifle all economic activity!  Return to being hunter/gatherers—better yet, just gatherers!One little problem: The professor upon whose work Gore’s . . . . Continue Reading »

A vaginal gel designed to prevent women from contracting the HIV virus, has failed in African studies. From the story:U.S. drug company Endo Pharmaceuticals’ (ENDP.O) gel designed to prevent infection with the AIDS virus was ineffective in trials in Africa, Britain’s Medical Research . . . . Continue Reading »

For some reason, Rat reminds me of Al . . . . Continue Reading »