Wesley J. Smith

I admit that I am not a fan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the hypocrisy and mendacity of her USA Today column about health care reform (co-authored with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer) is beyond her usual low standards. Time to parse. From their column:Americans have been waiting for nearly a . . . . Continue Reading »

It is amazing how our betters in Congress hate being petitioned by their constituents about a health care bill that could ruin our medical system. And Speaker Pelosi calls people like the doctor in this story who dared to ask his Congressman a question, “Un American.” No, unbelievable. . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a chance—just a chance, because I don’t think the leaders of Congress or the President care much what the people think—that the current Obamacare plans can be defeated.  The key is the independent voters. The new Rasmussen Poll shows they are turning against Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »

The American media is uninterested in fuly reporting the assisted suicide story, particularly the problems that have occurred in Oregon.  But with the issue hotly debated now in the UK, the Daily Mail has a long story illustrating the dangers of legalizing assisted suicide.  Since our own . . . . Continue Reading »

The American media are utterly uninterested in the many problems that have been reliably reported with Oregon assisted suicide. Instead, they take the facile “statistics” published each year by the state at face value—interview some supporters of PAS—and then blithely assure . . . . Continue Reading »

Not good: NHS hospitals are apparently struggling with vermin infestations. From the story:Ants in operating theatres and maternity, cockroaches in x-ray and mice in A&E are some of the 30,000 pest infestations in NHS hospitals over the last four years, figures have revealed.Data released under . . . . Continue Reading »

Hat tip to Francis Beckwith over at First Thoughts: The Washington Post’s Charles Lane analyzes the notorious section 1233 of the House health care reform bill, the part dealing with end of life counseling. From the story:Section 1233, however, addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting . . . . Continue Reading »

Sarah Palin is communicating these days on Facebook.  Yesterday, she weighed in on Obamacare—worrying about its rationing implications, certainly a legitimate concern. But she used incendiary and frankly, amateur-sounding terms like “death boards” and . . . . Continue Reading »

The handwriting is on the wall everywhere you look about universal health care: If you provide almost all things medical to all people, you are going to have a fiscal crisis.  That’s just common sense. No matter how eloquently our  president tries to pretend otherwise, . . . . Continue Reading »

Sarah Palin has weighed in against Obamacare, worrying that centralized control over what is (and is not) covered could result in rationing against the most weak and vulnerable.  From the story:Palin, in her first policy statement since resigning as Alaska governor, wrote on her Facebook page . . . . Continue Reading »