Wesley J. Smith

If Barbara Coombs Lee, the assisted suicide zealot who heads Compassion and Choices, is for something, run in the other direction as fast as you can! Lately, she has been opining about health care reform over at the Huffington Post—but what is amazing is that she seems to have forgotten things . . . . Continue Reading »

Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) vividly illustrated the recklessness and incompetence of our current government.  He said about those who ask that our elected representatives read the bill:I love these members, they get up and say, “Read the bill.” What good is reading the bill if . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote a few minutes ago of the  LA Times editorializing that new taxes be imposed on fattening foods to cut obesity and reduce health care costs.  It isn’t just lefty anonymous editorial writers. The head of the Center for Disease Control wants a tax on soda . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare hasn’t even started yet, and health care reform has those of the Leftist persuasion—read LA Times editorial—salivating—in this case literally—to tax fattening food to stop the fat from costing so many health care dollars. From the editorial:Key among . . . . Continue Reading »

David Broder, the dean of the punditry class, has written a cogent and clear column in the Washington Post about the power President Obama wishes to convey to an unelected bioethics board as part of his effort to remake the entire American health care system.  Commentary on the commentary over . . . . Continue Reading »

David Broder, the respected left-leaning “dean” of the pundit class, who writes for the Washington Post,  has clearly defined the power that the president hopes to convey on unelected bioethics boards.  From his column “Our New Medical Judges?”:Americans are . . . . Continue Reading »

There is no limit to the human imagination. We are the only species that consciously creates art, and we have from the beginning of our time here—unlike any other species that ever lived on Earth.  . . . . Continue Reading »

CNN, of all networks, has a devastating critique out about Obamacare and the false assertions about health care reform being made by the president.  From, “The Five Freedoms You’d Lose in Health Care Reform” by Shawn Tully:1. Freedom to choose what’s in your planThe . . . . Continue Reading »

A famous line out of Gone with the Wind is, “I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ babies!”  And that was when babies were just brought by the stork, which is to say, when they only resulted from a couple’s love or the expression of a more primal human urge.But . . . . Continue Reading »

A vaccine has been found that is 100 percent effective in preventing malaria in mice.  From the story:A new malaria vaccine has been shown to provide 100% protection in mice. If it can approach that level in people, it could slash the toll from one of the world’s worst scourges, according . . . . Continue Reading »