June Archive

Religious freedom on the back burner

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 June 2010

Has President Obama squandered the opportunity to do more than President Bush to advance religious freedom in America?

A beautiful life

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 June 2010

Andrea Bocelli’s short and sweet video tribute is making its way across the internet rapidly. It should.

Spectacular sport

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 June 2010

Nike is running a cool commercial right now on the sports networks with a montage of scenes from across the world of athletes in the simplest surroundings going on to perform the most amazing feats in their particular arena of competition. It ends with the message: “Write the Future”.

Of trophies and triumphs

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 June 2010

What a season this is for great sports and great stories of victory, defeat and the lessons of human striving. A badly needed diversion from dreadful news and politics…

Obama paying to sell health care

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 June 2010

The president got his version of health care reform passed into law, so he doesn’t need to sell it or even close the deal. He did that. But suddenly, he’s launched a huge campaign to market the ideas behind Obamacare. Why is he doing this?

‘Be preapred to make a defense’

Sheila Liaugminas | 08 June 2010

The recent Time magazine cover story on Pope Benedict, sniping and unprofessional and at times juvenile, is getting the attention it sought. And some that maybe it didn’t…

Witnesses to peace and charity

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 June 2010

Two ‘old men’, in a brief and little noticed exchange on a distant island, show the way to get along.

Better than a perfect game

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 June 2010

Any sports fan and especially baseball fans had to hurt for Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga when he pitched the rare gem known as a perfect game….and he was robbed in the bottom of the ninth with a bad call by the ump. But what’s happened since will be celebrated in the annals of sports history…

Illinois politics and World Cup soccer

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 June 2010

Okay, there’s really no connection. Other than a couple of stories...

Obama is failing to communicate

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 June 2010

Some may question President Obama’s leadership skills. But his ability to communicate has been called near-magical. Until about now…

South Korean court rules out life

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 June 2010

How convenient relativism makes life for some people. And how conveniently it’s ended for others, just by defining it away. Welcome to fantasyland in South Korea...

‘Chicago is in the House’

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 June 2010

When Barack Obama was elected president, all kinds of memorabilia sprung up to celebrate the historic occasion. One seen around his hometown was a T-shirt with a drawing of the White House with the Chicago flag prominently flying on top its roof. The caption read: ‘Chicago is in the House.’ That has become clearer over time…

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