Wesley J. Smith

Was it something I said?  The site is under a pretty large SPAM attack.  I am sorry, but any comments sent there by the filters will probably be thrown out with the true trash. I just don’t have the ability to keep sorting through the list to find mistakes.  Thanks for . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in the Daily Caller advocating, yet again, that the proper way to allow medical marijuana is to change the Controlled Substances Act. I begin complaining about the unprincipled nature of the current marijuana mess in California, and fix some blame. From “The Principled Way . . . . Continue Reading »

This is huge. Geron, which has spent many years touting its embryonic stem cell program as the future of regenerative medicine, is abandoning the field.  From the Washington Post story:The company doing the first government-approved test of embryonic stem cell therapy is discontinuing further . . . . Continue Reading »

Set me free, why don’t ya, Baby? Get out my life, why don’t ya Baby?  Because you don’t really love me, you just keep me hangin’ on.  You don’t really need me, but you keep me hangin’ on.  Why don’t ya get out of my life, and let me make a new . . . . Continue Reading »

A case of non voluntary . . . . Continue Reading »

Does the manner in which we treat our dead reflect how we view ourselves?  I think it does.I began thinking about this issue after reading a splendid article by my good friend Joseph Bottum, in which he opined in First Things that San Francisco’s banning of cemeteries within its . . . . Continue Reading »

GWH, at least in the USA, has really hit hard times.  Perhaps it is because global temperatures haven’t risen in a statistically significant manner for more than 10 years, despite increases in carbon dioxide emmissions. Perhaps the bad economy is such that even believers don’t want . . . . Continue Reading »

I never understood why Obamacarians taxed durable medical equipment as part of the package. I mean, if you want to cut medical costs, wouldn’t a new tax increase prices?  Unless, you want to inhibit access to these treatment modalities...but Obamacarians are sooo . . . . Continue Reading »

This is so awful and tells us the state of discrimination and loathing faced by people with disabilities. Apparently so-called “wrongful life” lawsuits are epidemic in Israel—wherein parents sue in the name of their child because a disability went undetected in . . . . Continue Reading »

This is an interesting how-do-you-do.  A crisis in the emergency care for the poor may be heading for a free market solution.  From the NYT story:Only a few private hospitals have survived in neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville and Bushwick to serve poor patients like them. . . . . Continue Reading »