Wesley J. Smith

Secondhand Smokette (aka Debra J. Saunders) has a good column out today that makes some strong points about Obama’s pitch for health care reform.  Essentially, she writes, he’s trying to sell the voters on the ridiculous notion that more people will get better care without . . . . Continue Reading »

The ship is taking on water and beginning to list a’starboard. The CBO has reported that a crucial reform  that was going to help make it all affordable, won’t save much money at all. From the story:For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to . . . . Continue Reading »

I am worried that we have just begun to hear about the depth of corruption that the case of the Brooklyn human kidney broker will expose. Apparently, poor Israelis were paid $10,000 apiece for a kidney, that were then sold for $160,000. But here’s the really scary part: They came here for the . . . . Continue Reading »

A human kidney broker—he called himself a “matchmaker”—has been busted as part of a series of corruption raids in Brooklyn. From the story:Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a “matchmaker,” but his business wasn’t romance. Instead, . . . . Continue Reading »

Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama’s premier health care advisers—and the brother of his chief of staff—insists that rationing based on age isn’t invidious discrimination. Oh no? Check out this story from Sweden that illustrates how wrong he is. From the story:An . . . . Continue Reading »

A bill has been filed in the U.S. Senate that would create a federal long term care insurance plan. It would cost $50-$75 a month, but pay $50-$75 a day in benefits. Being voluntary, it can’t possibly work from an underwriting perspective—thereby guaranteeing even more harvesting from . . . . Continue Reading »

Betsy McCaughey has been pounding the drum about the dangers of Obamacare.  Today, she warns about the beliefs of two key Obama Administration health care advisers in an opinion column (“Deadly Doctors”) in the New York Post. From the column:Yet at least two of President . . . . Continue Reading »

Perhaps we won’t be lemmings and destroy the world’s economy in the name of stopping global warming, after all. India has rejected some of the “science”—read computer program projections—of global warming and is refusing to thwart its own prosperity tilting at the . . . . Continue Reading »

As if we aren’t already spending enough money, legislation has apparently been filed to create a federal long term care insurance plan.  From the storyIt creates a national insurance trust that people can voluntarily participate in. It’s a publicly sponsored insurance plan, to make . . . . Continue Reading »

Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s drug czar, like those of Clinton and Bush before him, claims that marijuana has no medicinal value. From the story: “Legalization is not in the president’s vocabulary, and it’s not in mine,” he said. Kerlikowske said he can understand . . . . Continue Reading »