January Archive


They already went for broke

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 January 2010
The Chicago Sun-Times filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and that wasn’t a surprise to those of us who found little in it worth reading besides the Sports section. But now they’re doing this odd thing, mixing bold-faced and unabashed abortion advocacy with a principled call for free and fair speech by pro-life advocates.

About that Supreme Court decision…

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 January 2010
The one President Obama misrepresented in his State of the Union address, to the dismay of Justice Alito (which the media focused on more than on the misrepresentation of it)…..

SOTU in check

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 January 2010
That alone, the move by big media to fact-check the president’s State of the Union address, is almost as astonishing a reversal as was president Obama’s and the Democratic Congressional leadership’s since last Tuesday’s loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts to a Republican, taking away their 60 seat majority.

After Massachusetts… Illinois?

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 January 2010
Whatever ‘long-shot’ chances some upstart politicians may have had before in the upcoming Illinois primary, may have been significantly boosted by the major upset in Massachusetts when Scott Brown beat the Democrat for Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Senate.

Got change?

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 January 2010
Did those three election losses (New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts) tell Democratic leadership anything about the mood and will of the people at this point in time?

No choice

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 January 2010
This had to happen sooner or later. It’s interesting how the euphemistic marketing campaign behind the abortion movement that’s helped them change laws and language in this country for so long is coming to light more and more now over….a Super Bowl commercial. Oh, the irony.

Super Bowl drama

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 January 2010
Oh yeah…the Colts and the Saints and the sportscasters are hyping it, too.

Are we in a ‘culture war’?

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 January 2010
I’m on a brief trip, and grabbed two books to bring with. Tough task, given the depth and breadth of my backup reading list and the library already spilling over to piles on the office floor….

Tell the folks, let them decide

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 January 2010
The Minneapolis Star Tribune actually covered the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life rally on the anniversary of Roe this year. That’s remarkable, right there.

How to read the news

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 January 2010
Even though the latest polls show that the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life, the so-called mainsteam news media don’t even attempt to reflect mainstream American views.

When a ‘newspaper’ isn’t

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 January 2010
On Friday, January 22, the Chicago Tribune did not mention that it was the 37th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision nor that for the past 36 years the March for Life has been held on that day on the Mall of Washington as a strong and growing cultural resistence to that dubious Supreme Court decision.

Save Baby Isaiah

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 January 2010
He is disabled (see post below). His parents got a ’stay of execution’ (so to speak) from having his ventilator removed in a medical system forced to ration. Anyone not in that system may find this exceptional. It is not, sad to say.

‘You allow them to die’

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 January 2010
This us such a jarring thought, the idea that only some lives are worth saving, especially in the days when we’re still haging onto every news story of an against-the-odds save in Haiti.

Need to correct the correction

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 January 2010
The family of Terri Schiavo have been at this for 20 years, battling to save her life and now others through her legacy foundation. Her brother Bobby endlessly and exhaustively travels and talks and works to spread awareness of special needs people and the rights of the cognitively impaired.

Nary a word

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 January 2010
About 300,000 people rallied for ultimate civil rights for every human being, and the media’s got nothin’?



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