February Archive

Tebow ad consequences

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 February 2010

Before the Super Bowl even happened last weekend, we all know the public debate over it whipped up into a heated controversy and abortion activists joined forces to contest it and try to have CBS yank the Tim and Pam Tebow ad from the commercial lineup. So just the leak that it would air generated that media frenzy and very public debate. That’s the beauty of this whole episode...

Winner

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 February 2010

You don't have to love (appreciate, or even understand) American style football to enjoy the beauty of its perfect victory. After one of the best Super Bowls ever, its glow and joy is still lingering, beyond the borders of New Orleans or Louisiana.

Religious restrictions in the name of freedom?

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 February 2010

This happened during the Enlightenment. Nations and states and societies with short memories, or the gullibility to succumb to revisionist history, are letting it happen again. Even where people are not losing their faith, they’re losing their rights to freely express their religiously informed voices. 

‘That’s what you expect of a hospital’

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 February 2010

Times have changed enough that whatever we used to trust doctors, nurses and health care workers to do in the past……we’d better re-think. Patients and their families have to be their own best advocates to guard against things like this....

The ‘Bush billboard’

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 February 2010

The news is not that the ‘Miss Me Yet?’ sign is out there on the highway, generating a crush of commentary in the media and carping in the blogosphere. It's that it took two months to be noticed...

Hospitals and “Choice”

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 February 2010

They keep moving the goal posts, re-defining life and death and disability and what constitutes care. Look at this full-page article the Chicago Tribune ran today on Catholic hospitals and choice, as they put it. The centerpiece of the story is the bishops’ directives on the care of impaired human beings while they still have life.

Another Obama appointee in trouble

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 February 2010

Let’s see…..there are already calls for the firing or resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Now it’s an advisor on Faith-Based matters. Who blasted the Pope...

Defense of life, a controversial issue

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 February 2010

Imagine how we got to this point. In one generation, we’ve gone from abortion being unthinkable to the majority of civilized society, to the defense of human life being a controversial issue. I don’t know about you, but when I just let an idea sink in, the clarity and simplicity of its truth stands out.

Valentine’s Day plans

Sheila Liaugminas | 08 February 2010

The Chicago Tribune has a heartwarming story today about a man very dedicated to his family, and particularly to the tradition he established years ago to treat each of his three daughters to a special dinner to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Each individually, no matter what, no matter where…

Super Bowled over

Sheila Liaugminas | 08 February 2010

First, it was a great game, no matter which team you were rooting for. Whether at home or in the stadium, you felt you were in on one big party, and from the Star Bangled Banner to the final blizzard of confetti, it was all good. But people at home had the chance to see the much-anticipated ads. How were they?

The Tebow ad. Nice

Sheila Liaugminas | 08 February 2010

Heightened emotions. Fear. Falsehood. Condemnation without information. It's no surprise that it was all in the mix for the activist abortion-on-demand organizations agitating publicly for the past two weeks to keep the Tim Tebow ad off the air during the Super Bowl. Because that's how the pro-abortion movement operates.

Dear Google: Search for Civility

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 February 2010

Know how you start typing a phrase into a Google search window and all sorts of possibilities pop up to help you find the search you’re after? That helps me a lot in my daily forays into web research. But they're not as helpful when you search for Christianity...

Exposing media fraud (easy to do)

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 February 2010

The growing movement of pro-life advocates who flow into Washington each January on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade for events culminating in the March for Life have stopped expecting the media to actually notice their swelling numbers and hear their voices. They’re taking coverage of the event directly to the people.

Politics at the Prayer Breakfast

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 February 2010

This annual inter-faith and faith-based event, drawing together high level politicians, diplomats, dignitaries, clergy and media, is supposed to be about God and humanity and peace and goodwill, which is why it generally gets little press. This year’s National Prayer Breakfast got into politics more than usual, and got plenty of press.

Health care for one and all?

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 February 2010

Univeral health care has appeal in its promise to provide treatment to everyone, no exceptions. The very moral thing to do. However, no exceptions does not mean no limitations.

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