Wesley J. Smith

PETA has an advocacy project aimed at children that seeks to persuade them that fish are “sea kittens.” Now, the publicity hog group, is trying to take advantage of California’s financial implosion by offering to pay to keep a beach open. But there’s a catch.  More at my . . . . Continue Reading »

One would think that an ultra liberal newspaper like the NYT would look askance at an advocate who believes parents should be allowed to murder their baby if the child does not suit the interests or promote the happiness of the family.  But the Times loves Singer and has since the utiltiarain . . . . Continue Reading »

You would think that an ultra liberal newspaper like the New York Times—which claims to believe in human equality—would look askance at an advocate who argues that parents should be allowed to murder their babies if the child does not suit the interests of the family. Illustrating how . . . . Continue Reading »

Vicki McKenna is one of my favorite radio hosts. A political conservative, she plies her trade over the airwaves of Madison and Milwuakee. Vicki has energy, vivaciousness, a great radio voice—and she likes me! I was on her show “Upfront With Vicki McKenna” yesterday on WIBA . . . . Continue Reading »

Assisted suicide advocates will say anything in the cause of transforming suicide into a medical treatment. Barbara Coombs Lee, head of the country’s most influential assisted suicide organization Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society), writing in the Huffington Post, literally . . . . Continue Reading »

Now that the assisted suicide movement believes it has some winds in its sails, its pretense of being reasonable and measured is collapsing under the ideological zeal that drives the movement.  Case in point: The head of Compassion and Choices, Barbara Coombs Lee, has written an outrageous . . . . Continue Reading »

Pure madness.  Beyond madness, reckless irresponsibility.Let’s say you want to expand access to insurance—which I believe is a laudable goal.  There are very simple ways to do it, without euthanizing a system that for most people is working very well.  You could expand . . . . Continue Reading »

Bizarro was funny today. But Dr. Kenneth Stevens, of Physicians for Compassionate Care, used the cartoon to make an important point about medical conscience clauses in a private e-mail to me (reprinted here with his permission): I think it [the cartoon] ties in with physician conscience. What if . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier today, I posted this funny Bizarro comic on a SHS feature called “Secondhand Smoke Funnies.”  But Dr. Kenneth Stevens of Physicians for Compassionate Care caught a deeper, if probably unintended, message in the strip that I missed. (Curse you for your greater sagacity, Dr. . . . . Continue Reading »

I have previously discussed the case of a Canadian woman who wishes to accompany her terminally ill husband to Switzerland for a joint assisted suicide—this even though she is not ill. A Canadian assisted suicide activist approved of the plan as a prophylactic against future suffering.Well, . . . . Continue Reading »