September Archive

Doing injustice in the name of justice

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 September 2010

What would a totally tolerant society look like?

Defenders of marriage are tolerant

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 September 2010

Again and again, California voters have had their voice and their vote on Proposition 8 rejected. Mostly by powerful homosexual marriage activists, judges and sympathizers. But the people who want their constitutionally expressed will to be legally established have tolerated the repeated necessity of fighting for it in court. The appeal is court again, and sympathizers of the voters have joined in.

Blazing trails in New Jersey

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 September 2010

Been watching Governor Chris Christie lately?

Loved to death

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 September 2010

Whether there are more Terri Schiavo’s suffering a torturous death by starvation and dehydration these days, or we’re just hearing more about them these days is uncertain. But the manner of such death should be made clear, and the media are certainly not doing that.

Politics & comedy

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 September 2010

The lines are always blurred between the two. In the last presidential election, Saturday Night Live became a keener player on the political commentary front when the show’s comedians took on Sarah Palin in regular skits. Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have made their fame on delivering real news as fake newsmen in a usually funny way. But when Stewart was voted most trusted newsman last year in a Time news poll, with real journalists trailing, it was clear a lot of people either didn’t know or didn’t care that he’s a fake newsman. Now, both comedians are turning up in more real news coverage.

All creatures great and small

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 September 2010

Unconditional love, eager to please. Sweet.

Addressing the UN this week

Sheila Liaugminas | 24 September 2010

The UN General Assembly is hearing some radical ideas this week, and not all of them are from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

More calls to de-fund Planned Parenthood

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 September 2010

Just a couple of months ago, a coalition of congressmen called for a federal audit of the nation’s largest abortion provider because of dishonesty in their reporting. About a hundred representatives joined a bi-partisan legal effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

First, get social moral issues right

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 September 2010

Then come policy decisions on taxes, the economy, trade, healthcare reform, immigration…

‘The evolution of Big Tea’

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 September 2010

Or, as one activist quipped: “Dude, where’s my movement?” It has suddenly taken off, and everyone’s scrambling to catch up.

‘We’re losing hope, Mr. President’

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 September 2010

He already holds fewer press conferences and leaves little opportunity open for spontaneous questions. But he might be re-thinking the townhall format next. These are highly staged gatherings arranged for President Obama to sell his ideas to specially selected supporters. But even they are turning their frustration on him.

‘Rights and duties of the state and individual’

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 September 2010

When Pope Benedict makes apostolic visits to to various countries, his remarks and addresses always reflect keen insight into that culture’s strengths and weaknesses. But he’s really addressing people of the world beyond that nation in his message of universal human rights and dignity.

“The biggest cross of all people”

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 September 2010

Christians understand the cross to represent the ultimate unity of all human beings.  Many people don’t get that. Christians in Lebanon want as many people as possible to at least see it, so they erected and illuminated what may be the largest cross in the world.

Remember the miners

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 September 2010

There hasn’t been coverage lately of the efforts to rescue the Chilean miners trapped underground, nor of their efforts to deal with such duress while waiting for a rescue that could take a couple more months. But even though news crews largely moved off to other stories, the human drama at the center of this story doesn’t depend on reporters to cover it.

Third party in America?

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 September 2010

What just happened in this week’s primaries? Something ruptured, in the smallest state of all, and it seemed like no one saw it coming. It was like an act of nature. Human nature.

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