Wesley J. Smith

I have been a speaking fool (don’t agree so fast!) for the last week and a half, and have not had a chance to post on last week’s astonishing Newsweek cover story: “The Case for Killing Granny.”  (I will bet the POTUS was not please with this cover!)Evan Thomas, one of . . . . Continue Reading »

It is clear to me that the Pelosi wing of the Democratic Party doesn’t believe in robust democratic debate—when it is in power, that is. Otherwise, dissent is patriotic.Nancy Pelosi has now darkly warned that the agitated current political mood—which, if anything, she unloosed by . . . . Continue Reading »

A disturbing number of people—8 million—each year seriously contemplate suicide, with some 32,000 actually doing the deed.  From the story: More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the . . . . Continue Reading »

When I was researching Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World, it hit me that the ethical values of many scientists cut against the grain of most of the citizenry.  Actually, that didn’t just hit me—I quote a major scientist making that very point.  From my book (citations . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a cause that the social right and the political left, liberals and conservatives, and everyone in between can agree upon: Don’t permit human genes to be patented.  Genes are not human inventions.  Hence, they should not be subject to patent protection (as opposed, say, the . . . . Continue Reading »

“The scientists” continually assure us that biotech will be conducted ethically and with full control.  It isn’t now, in my view, but it may soon get worse. Under new rules about to go into effect in the UK, scientists will be able to create cloned human/animal hybrid cloned . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama’s selling skills are questionable.  He says things that aren’t true and acts as if we won’t be able to figure that out.  A minor case in point: On 60 Minutes tonight, he says that he will “own” Obamacare and be held politically accountable if . . . . Continue Reading »

A meme is taking hold on the left that opponents of President Obama can’t accept a black president.  But that’s baloney that has turned moldy. President Obama is being treated just like every other president has been by his (or someday, her) political opponents—very . . . . Continue Reading »

The gall of President Obama: He has played hide the ball on health care rationing, the funding of abortion under the public plan, and pretended that cutting fat and efficiencies can pay for the more than $1 trillion price tag for the the bill. He has claimed to support conscience clauses as he guts . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK continues to provide us with a vivid and terrifying education about the dangers of health care rationing. The UK”s central planners have urged that doctors make no efforts to save prematurely born babies under 22 weeks.  This don’t treat decree (because that is what . . . . Continue Reading »