June Archive

Kagan’s politics

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 June 2010

The Supreme Court nominee has trained well for the very confirmation hearing process she once sharply and publicly criticized. So now she’s being as politically correct as she needs to be, while denying she’ll be political at all on the court. What’s wrong with this picture?

Fiscal discipline….but later

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 June 2010

For now, the U.S. is plunging ahead with ill-advised spending of money we don’t have, and nearly everyone can see that folly. It’s not the transparency President Obama intended in his early promises, but then, other promises haven’t worked out so well either…

Triumph of the regulators

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 June 2010

Cliches come to mind, like….setting the fox over guard of the hen house, or….giving robbers the keys to the bank. But that’s a digression. The issue is federal regulation of the banking industry...

Supreme Court’s ‘Big Monday’

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 June 2010

For Court watchers, this was expected to be a big day. As it wrapped up its session for summer break and released its final decisions, the Court made news early on, while the Senate opened confirmation hearings on the newest court nominee...

Kagan’s confirmation hearings

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 June 2010

Add this to the spectator sports going on right now in exciting arenas….World Cup. Wimbledon. Prelude to the Tour de France. Buildup to the MLB All-Star Break. US Open to the British Open. And now, finally, the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begin. Okay, most people don’t care. But we journalists must, and must understand the players and the stakes.

Social order on the surface

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 June 2010

Government is growing again, just over the past few days. Front-page news going into the weekend declared that Washington is ready to take on  new and expanded regulatory roles in the banking industry.

Obama’s crisis of confidence

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 June 2010

In retrospect, it seems amazing that a largely unknown and inexperienced politician could ascend from obscurity to the U.S. Senate to the presidency of the United States in just a handful of years with little more than the right political connections and the power of oratory. Even more unlikely that he would sweep into office on the promise of “Hope and Change.”

Gates Foundation: Charity and abortion

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 June 2010

Bill and Melinda Gates do a lot of great humanitarian work. They also fund services that end nascent human life. But they say they won’t directly fund abortion.  The controversy continues…

Abortion delivered electronically

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 June 2010

Planned Parenthood is at once a hugely profitable business and a taxpayer-funded non-profit outfit. Now they’re expanding into telemedicine, a new method of delivering abortion. Backed by citizens’ dollars.

Family meal as therapy

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 June 2010

I have few T-shirts with words or pictures on them, preferring simple solid colors instead. But there’s one I couldn’t resist, and my family loves it….the blue one with a drawing of a little house and a family sitting around a dinner table with the caption “Value Meal”. I wore it on Father’s Day evening at the family table in the rare instance that we were all together. The value of that goes deeper than we think we know…

Free speech for those who agree

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 June 2010

The advantage of controlling the White House and both houses of Congress is, of course, the complete and unfettered power to exert the will of the majority party over the will of even the majority of the people. The Democrats are going for all they can while they can.

Thank you, Dad

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 June 2010

Actually, my Dad doesn’t use computers, and I’ll be talking with him personally with my own expressions of gratitude and love for all he’s done for his family throughout life, on this day we set aside to honor the role men play in society…

Kevorkian’s view of life. His.

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 June 2010

We probably thought there can be no more surprises from ‘Dr. Death.’ We certainly know his view of life is relative and arbitrary. But he said something shocking in the middle of an interview…

How did Obama do?

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 June 2010

The question has been focused on his performance in his first televised speech from the Oval Office. It should be on his ability to take charge of the environmental disaster that prompted the address.

Marriage on trial

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 June 2010

Sometimes, the Proposition 8 battle seems surreal. But then, so do other serious, emotional and intense conflicts playing out in the nation’s courts and city halls and classrooms and media, over what we knew not long ago as core Judeo-Christian traditional values.

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