December Archive

If it takes a village…

Sheila Liaugminas | 31 December 2009

Together with Ireland and Italy and communities scattered in Spain and several other nations, Lithuania is holding fast to the values that have held civilization together throughout history.

Bureacratic bullies get pushback

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 December 2009

First, get power. Then, consolidate it. Next, break promises to the people who helped you get power that you would still recognize their autonomy on important issues. Don’t allow debate, shut down opposition. Exert control.

The press back and forth

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 December 2009

This is the time for retrospectives, and forecasting. The media are doing both. And they are especially political this year.

A most uncomfortable topic

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 December 2009

Terminal sedation is proving to be how so-called 'assisted suicide' is flowing down to the general public."

Who’s in charge at Georgetown?

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 December 2009

When a former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood winds up getting a job teaching in the Health Systems department at Georgetown University, there's a problem.

Good news in the Times?

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 December 2009

The children of Specialty will deteriorate and die here. The real wonder is that they have survived.

Not etched in stone

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 December 2009

There are many reasons for pushback on the Senate health care legislative ‘compromise’. Abortion funding is chief among them.

Not etched in stone

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 December 2009

There are many reasons for pushback on the Senate health care legislative ‘compromise’. Abortion funding is chief among them. But other threats to the vulnerable are in there - how bizarre that this is called ‘health care reform’ - and Senate Democratic leaders crafting it want to use a power play to keep bad law once they make bad law.

This did not seem inevitable

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 December 2009

Michael Barone is a straightforward policy wonk in terms of political facts both current and historical. He’s watching all the current feverish battles to rush drastic legislation past the people, and sees a remarkable collision course in the process.

100 world leaders gathered in a room

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 December 2009

Sounds like the start of a joke, right?

This did not seem inevitable

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 December 2009

Is movement towards a third party inevitable?

It got him elected

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 December 2009

Regrettable if it turns out to be “a parody of leadership”.

Deconstructing ‘health care’

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 December 2009

Abortion is not health care. Neither is physician-assisted suicide.

Hide and seek Harry

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 December 2009

Sen. Harry Reid is keeping just about everyone from knowing what’s in the Senate version of the health care bill.

Don’t understand climate negotiations?

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 December 2009

Me neither. It reminds me of a story I linked to some time ago by a financial guy who didn’t understand some of the language and banter being tossed around in politics and media about the economic meltdown.

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