Wesley J. Smith

PETA has had its outrageous lawsuit claiming that whales are “slaves” thrown out of court. From the AP story:An effort to free whales from Sea World by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday. A federal judge in San Diego dismissed . . . . Continue Reading »

Boy, for all the criticizing of religion by secularists, many sure seem to want to be considered “religious.”  First, there is the proposal to erect a “Temple of Atheisim.” Now, a soldier wants the U.S. Military to recognize humanism as a religion.  From the AP . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, this isn’t good.  Those Himalayan glaciers that were supposed to have disappeared by 2035 according to the IPCC (since retracted as nonsense), haven’t even shrunk in ten years.  From the Guardian story:The world’s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the issue of “medical conscience” often here over the years, a social trend in which we see doctors threatened with the ability to practice medicine if they don’t adhere to the modern anti Hippocratic view.  For example, in Victoria, Australia, . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the supposed protections of euthanasia is the doctor saying no when, as one example, when killing isn’t warranted.  (Doctors also say know if participating in killing of a patient is against conscience, of course). Ditto assisted suicide in Oregon and Washington.But . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks is no conservative, even though he is supposed to fill that role on the NYT op/ed page.  (Actually, Ross Douthat does.)  He has a column today criticizing the Obama Administration’s Free Birth Control Rule.  And like too many liberals, he is primarily . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the consequence of the ridiculous practice of legislating to headlines too often seen in the states’ legislatures and Congress.  In this case, Jack Kevorkian was publicly promising to assist suicides.  And what did the brainiacs in the Georgia Legislature do in . . . . Continue Reading »

I suspect the Obama Administration will try and back off their anti Catholic “free birth control” rule because it is very bad politics.  But first, they will try to spin it as not anti religion.  They will pretend it isn’t narrowly drawn.  And that’s just what . . . . Continue Reading »

As the Planned Parenthood/Komen debacle continues to unfold, I still believe that Planned Parenthood has been badly wounded going into the future.  What metaphor should we use?  The bloom is off the rose?  No, PP is nothing like a flower.  The wolf has thrown off the . . . . Continue Reading »

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker writes about the intimidation tactics wielded by the Left against the Catholic Church with Obama’s Free Birth Control Rule and in the How Dare Komen defund the sacrosanct Planned Parenthood! brouhaha.  She starts her column with an unintentionally . . . . Continue Reading »