August Archive

What to make of the rally

Sheila Liaugminas | 31 August 2010

The massive rally on the mall of Washington over the weekend has the media in a tangle. It was larger and more peaceful and more positive and less political than they expected, and this is all territory largely foreign to them. How to account for what they’re all calling ‘Glenn Beck’s rally’?

Human drama beneath the earth

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 August 2010

They call it “the Miracle of the San Jose Mine.” It is captivating. This story could not have been scripted.

Shifting political labels

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 August 2010

Before this year, it was already an intriguing question to wonder what the reference point was for left and right on the political compass, the question of what constituted center. Whatever the answer was, it has certainly changed.

Competing rallies, same essential message

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 August 2010

Restore, renew, reclaim. Two rallies take place today in Washington on this anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. One is on the spot where Dr. King delivered that famous oration. The other nearby, but headed to the Mall as well. They’re being reported as being two very different groups of activists in tension, having two competing messages. But they’re not. Or….need not be.

Stem cell drama

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 August 2010

What timing. Just as I’m hurrying to leave town and have no time to blog, this major stem cell decision comes down and the media go apoplectic and there’s so much to say and I’ve no time to say it….

‘Mentality of dissent dominating the intelligentsia’

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 August 2010

Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has just been elevated to a more prominent and acutely consequential role in the church. He didn’t get there by mincing words for political correctness.

Instituting a dress code

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 August 2010

Somebody in authority had to say it, and we’re not hearing it much in churches and schools. People are coming to public institutions poorly, shabbily or inappropriately dressed.

‘Tech syndrome’ as a diagnosis

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 August 2010

Some sociologists call us the ‘always on’ society. We love the benefits of instant information constantly available with multiple gadgets to access it. But ‘Blackberry thumb’ was only one signal that new gadgets provoke new strain injuries, and doctors are trying to figure out what else the ‘tech syndrome’ is doing to us.

A cause the ACLU won’t push to the high court

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 August 2010

The public display of the Ten Commandments. Maybe they’re noticing that the Supreme Court building displays Moses and the Ten Commandments, along with other important historical symbols of law and lawgivers.

Obama’s Muslim roots?

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 August 2010

This story is picking up a lot of traction pretty fast. What is President Barack Obama’s religious affiliation? Does it matter? It does to a lot of Americans.

Cordoba, time and again

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 August 2010

The name behind the Muslim community center and mosque planned for the neighborhood around Ground Zero in Manhattan has figured only partly into reporting that largely covers the controversy of its placement.

Don’t mess with my macaroni & cheese

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 August 2010

For some reason I can’t fathom, companies have to mess with their products after they’ve been on the market for a while, and change them….just for the sake of change. Or worse, they remove them from the market altogether, which has happened more often than I care to recall. Always the favorites, too. And replace them with something else. Just to be ‘New!’ Or, they keep an old favorite but change it and call it ‘New and Improved!’ But they (whoever ‘they’ are) need to leave some things alone. What did they learn from the Coke debacle?

Popular actor continues to draw the line

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 August 2010

He plays a bad guy really well, but Neal McDonough just won’t do some things he believes are wrong.

Planned Parenthood’s movable fences

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 August 2010

Like other lies, this one worked for them while they got away with it.

Stalled religious site in NYC

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 August 2010

Why is the proposed mosque getting so much attention and go-ahead prompts by the city when other religious groups have been waiting patiently for permission to go forward? Not to build, but to rebuild.

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