Wesley J. Smith

This is hilarious.  After every noteworthy weather event, MSM types such as the NYT and Time, scream, IT’S GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHAGE, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!.  People who get the most attention in the world, such as Al Gore, Prince Charles, Thomas Friedman, Bill Clinton, . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors in San Francisco are refusing to intervene in a suicide by starvation by an suspected murderer—even though he has been declared mentally incompetent.  From the “Matier and Ross” feature in the SF Chronicle:Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital are refusing to . . . . Continue Reading »

Baby Joseph, who was the subject of a bitter futile care theory lawsuit that involved two elements: First, Canadian doctors and hospital administration wanting to end all life-sustaining treatment for the terminally ill boy so he would die.  But they also refused a tracheotomy as medically . . . . Continue Reading »

This seems a huge story to me, but has been ignored by all but conservative media outlets.  Apparently, an Iranian pastor may soon be executed for apostasy because he refuses to recant his Christian faith.  Here’s the story from the Get Religion blog, by the eminently responsible . . . . Continue Reading »

It amazes me how an embryo is or isn’t an existing human life—depending on what the question is regarding the embryo being discussed.  In Argentina, a man fathered embryos via IVF, and then divorced.  His ex wants to be implanted with the embryos, but he says that would be . . . . Continue Reading »

“Get out of the lifeboat you expensive terminal cancer patients!  Sure, your lives could be extended months, maybe even years,—but it isn’t worth the money!  You’re going to die sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner.  We need the money for more . . . . Continue Reading »

With the EPA admitting it wants needs 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act, with all tens of thousands it admits the states will also need, add in the massive increase in bureaucratic power and control under Obamacare and other bureaucratic imperialisms out of the . . . . Continue Reading »

In.san.i.ty—as in “extreme folly or unreasonableness”!  The EPA admitted in a legal brief that its proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gasses beginning in 2016, would require 230,000 new employees to administer, but it wants to forge ahead anyway.  From the EPA’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Definitions matter.  That point hit me hard as I read an article that wants doctors to be given the right to stop treatment from a man diagnosed to be in a persistent unconscious condition.  From “When Family and Doctors Disagree on When to End life.”Hold on: Bad title! Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »

When will enough, finally, be enough.  Not only are organs now being sold by desperate people in destitute countries—to the point that some governments have been forced to ban organ transplant surgeries for non citizens or receiving organs from non relatives—but the practice is . . . . Continue Reading »