Wesley J. Smith

This and $2 will buy you a cup of coffee, but CNN”s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin thinks that the individual mandate is toast, and indeed, that the entire Obamacare leviathan could be declared unconstitutionality. I’ll believe it when I see it, but as they say, from his . . . . Continue Reading »

Misanthropy is the sickness of the West.  We see it expressed in global warming hysteria, radical environmentalism, animal rights, and other areas of concern—including assisted suicide/euthanasia advocacy. And now, Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked, nails it in the Telegraph. From . . . . Continue Reading »

A column in the Telegraph questions why obese people should have precedence in care over the elderly in the socialized NHS.  From “Why Should Fat People Take Precedence Over the Elderly in the NHS?”Already the elderly are short-changed when it comes to nurses’ time. Nurses in . . . . Continue Reading »

Update: Much is being made in the press that the Solicitor General apparently did a poor job arguing the case today. That doesn’t matter a whit. Oral argument is usually something of a Kabuki dance. A good argument rarely changes minds that were not persuaded by the written briefs, nor will a . . . . Continue Reading »

I find this ironic: a ScienceBlogs (corrected from my original post stating it was a Huffington Post blog) called the Denialism Blog, subtitled “Don’t Confuse Denialism With Debate,” is upset because the HP published Bruce Friedrich—the beta wolf of the maniac . . . . Continue Reading »

A patent is allowed if something is a human invention.  Naturally occurring elements and entities should therefore, not be patentable.  And now, the Supreme Court has overturned a lower court case that upheld a patent for a method of testing for genes. From the AP story: The . . . . Continue Reading »

They don’t want us to be able to do anything!  “Nature rights” would stop development in its tracks, and “ecocide” would punish large scale projects as an international crime akin to genocide.Showing you how serious they are about imposing such anti human nonsense . . . . Continue Reading »

This is outright human experimentation—no matter how benignly motivated.  “Ashley’s Treatment,” that is giving massive doses of hormones to seriously disabled children to keep them small and sexually immature, seems to be spreading. (Ashley also had her budding breasts . . . . Continue Reading »

See, this is why the debate over man made global warming isn’t over.  In order to escape the implication of the Medieval Warming period on the theory of human-caused catastrophic warming, alarmists have insisted it was a localized phenomenon, that is, only Europe warmed quickly . . . . Continue Reading »

I was happy to hear that former VP Dick Cheney successfully underwent heart transplant surgery. I was also very glad that he waited in line like everyone else—20 months.  The organ transplant triage system should not be a respecter of persons.  Every potential organ . . . . Continue Reading »