Wesley J. Smith

Mark Pickup may very well be the finest man I have ever met.  He is good, decent, kind, honest even when it really hurts to be honest, and has an iron-willed integrity.  He also has a heart of golden mush.Mark was very caught up, as was I, in the terrible tragedy of the dehydration death . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been very gratified to have been asked repeatedly when my podcast, What It Means to Be Human, will be back.  I  had to suspend these recordings for awhile because of work load and then a tech meltdown.  Whew. But, I am happy to be back streaming and hope to have few . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthanasia deaths are going up in Belgium, now up to about 2% of all deaths in Flanders.  From the story:Cases of euthanasia in Belgium’s Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has . . . . Continue Reading »

Talk about lying about the bill: President Obama and the Democrats have repeatedly assured the country that Obamacare would not cover abortion and that, in any event, the Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding.  Almost surely wrong on the first point and absolutely wrong . . . . Continue Reading »

A pro life activist who routinely held up photos of aborted fetuses as a form of protest has been repeatedly shot and murdered. From the story:OWOSSO, Michigan — State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning . . . . Continue Reading »

I admit I didn’t see the president’s speech tonight. I was on a plane to Washington DC to appear tomorrow night in a Webcast put on by the Family Research Council on Obamacare.But I have read it.  I’m tired and have to get up early tomorrow, and so I don’t want . . . . Continue Reading »

I consider myself a Martin Luther King liberal, which is to say, I am now called a conservative.  As a man who has co-authored four books with Ralph Nader, that still seems surrealistic to me.  Nevertheless, I have reluctantly concluded that the Left (generally) isn’t interested in . . . . Continue Reading »

My secret fantasy is to be a great political cartoonist, since these masters of political advocacy can paint an a polemic picture that truly is worth more than a thousand words. I think the cartoon to the left is a good example of the genre. It really scores because the image of the president . . . . Continue Reading »

There seems little question that Sarah Palin has defined the terms of the Obamacare debate. I still disapprove of her “death panel” and “evil” comments.  And her first try at justifying the provocative term was factually erroneous. But now, she has it nailed.  . . . . Continue Reading »

The bioethics Establishment is at it again, desperately trying to pretend that the general movement doesn’t support what it supports in regard to Obamacare. From the statement, “Three Myths About the Ethics of Healthcare Refrm,” by the Association of Bioethics Program . . . . Continue Reading »