August Archive

Gay marriage on hold…again…for now

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 August 2010

After declaring a California voter initiative wrongly passed because he disagreed with the citizens’ conclusion, Judge Vaughn Walker took it upon himself to declare anyone who disagreed with him ineligible to appeal to a higher court. Case closed, he thought. He was wrong.

Obama’s decline surprising?

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 August 2010

Stunning, says a Telegraph correspondent, in its speed and breadth and depth. And he’s saying a whole lot more about the reasons why, spelling them out with clarity that’s evaded the American press.

Schedule leisure

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 August 2010

Much of Europe is on holiday this whole month, and many Americans are squeezing in one more vacation before school begins and the Fall season ramps up. It’s mid-August, and a good time to consider down time.

TMI

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 August 2010

Technology is good. But too much of anything can be detrimental. What’s the downside of ‘Too Much Information’?

Unhappy in California

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 August 2010

No matter which way it goes with Proposition 8, in elections and court rulings, some group is going to be very upset. But after the latest decision Thursday, nobody’s happy. What’s going on in California?

Persons and acts and marriage

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 August 2010

At the absolute core of arguments over abortion and same-sex marriage, at the heart of the matter before other points of contention are made one way or the other…..is the presumption that we either have person/body dualism or we do not. Philosophers and scholars and other intellectuals have been debating that point for a very long time. But with laws changing the way they are, it’s time to move it front and center.

Resist dread

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 August 2010

Okay, Americans are steamed. We’re short on leaders and long on critics. Hope and change were empty campaign slogans, and now citizens are angry and afraid. But isn’t there an upside?

Justice Kagan style

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 August 2010

Now that Elena Kagan has been sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice, some of the media are musing over what we might expect over the next session or so. Interesting, how they’re framing the issues…

What else the leaks expose

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 August 2010

The Wikileaks story is all about revelations. But very few news stories covering that controversy have covered the fuller story. What don’t they want to reveal?

About that mosque…

Sheila Liaugminas | 08 August 2010

Let’s start with this: the mosque can be built in New York near Ground Zero. But should it?

The life of the mind

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 August 2010

Opinions are individual and subjective. But facts are facts. Trouble is, they’re usually communicated or interpreted by someone. That’s where opinion comes back in….

Nuanced to death

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 August 2010

Pro-life leaders have said all along that if abortion is not explicitly excluded from the new healthcare legislation, it will be included. Their critics challenge them to find it in the wording, saying it’s not there. It is, and they have.

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