July Archive

Searching for information hidden in public

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 July 2010

I use a Google aggregator to show me, at a glance, a screen full of the top international, national, local and interest-specific headlines of the moment. Google has been in some of those headlines lately…

‘Fact-lite partisan outrage’

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 July 2010

So it’s not just a heated atmosphere in the runup to the mid-term election? Rage is the new ’politics as usual’  in Washington politics?

Politics of blame

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 July 2010

Everyone does it, no one benefits from it, and it particularly demeans the office of the presidency. But the president is resorting to it with greater frequency these days.

Disabilities Act has an anniversary

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010

And it may be short-lived.

Controlling speech is bad enough

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010

But this is ridiculous.

No faith in the language

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010

This could be a many-part series under that heading….

University of Illinois’ teaching moment

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 July 2010

The administration had the chance to redeem the institution’s hasty decision to fire a professor for doing his job. They blew it.

Change the generational guards…quick

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 July 2010

Enough cultural clout for the Boomers. They’ve wrought enough damage to succeeding generations.

The new ‘Freedom Rides’

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 July 2010

What a good time to recall the hard won victory of human dignity over degradation that the civil rights movement struggled for in the South and ultimately, nationwide, in the ’60’s.

Who’s stoking racism?

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 July 2010

In the past two week, racially charged arguments and accusations have been heating up the air waves. Allegations are out there about the Tea Party movement, the New Black Panthers, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, and certain members of the Obama administration. What’s going on here?

Signs of stimulus waste

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 July 2010

In different states, over the past year, I’ve seen the same roadside sign on many highways touting to motorists that government stimulus funds were at work right there in the present construction or improvement project. But I never saw anyone present there at work on anything. And I wondered how much money that sign cost just to brag about government programs.

Media shapes public opinion

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 July 2010

This is not news. In any sense…But when one encounters something so blatant as this, it calls for a look: “Abortion foes win a round in health overhaul.” Cue the reader…

Obama’s revolution

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 July 2010

Healthcare, immigration, financial industry...America is being re-formed alright. There are a lot of political irons in the fire right now and they're all pressing. Which ones are more important?

The other wedge issue

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 July 2010

As if there were only a couple..Besides every other issue dividing politicians and the culture, which seem to abound right now, the battle for the legalization of same-sex marriage is throwing more heat than light on the larger issue of human rights

Arizona, Immigration, Justice and Obama

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 July 2010

How to sort out what years of congressional sessions have failed to do and politics have further entangled….?

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