May Archive


Prayer is a wedge issue?

Sheila Liaugminas | 07 May 2009
Should that even have a question mark?

So we would know that they lived

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 May 2009
Stories of the indomitable human spirit endure, and always encourage.

But can it be prevented?

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 May 2009
We know health care rationing is coming. We’ve had plenty of warnings.

Punishing the ‘thought’ behind the crime?

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 May 2009
All crime committed against all innocent people is punishable according to the harm done to person and property and its violation of civil laws. Now, those laws are being re-written to punish crime against some people more than others.

Signs of things to come in medicine

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 May 2009
Currently happening largely under radar, in Montana.

The people’s politician

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 May 2009
The term ‘politician’ has been tainted these days, which is all the more reason to honor one who served the people as few in this representative republic do now. At least, in Washington.

Talk about economics…

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 May 2009
Not many of the media have paid tribute to Congressman Jack Kemp as he passes on from his life of public service. But that does not diminish the man or his accomplishments.

Comic relief

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 May 2009
Meet my nephew Max. He is an individualist, with a mind of his own.

“Fannie Med”

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 May 2009
Health care reform isn’t ‘coming’, it’s already here. Snuck into that fat stimulus bill rushed through Congress was increased spending on the Medicaid welfare program, and the groundwork to create a government run health care system.

“Who is this man?”

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 May 2009
They were talking about the president of the United States.

Moving religions

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 May 2009
The newly released Pew Forum poll on religious affiliations shows that while we’re still a nation of faith, many Americans are changing churches.

No currency in atheism

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 May 2009

MSNBC ran a ‘live poll’ online the other day asking this: Should the motto “In God We Trust” be removed from U.S. currency?


Let’s have another ‘surprise justice’

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 May 2009
Which is saying…another David Souter-like appointment.

April Archive


And we thought it would be Ginsburg

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 April 2009
So it’s Justice David Souter, one of the youngest members on the Court. Who knew?

Religion in America not in decline after all?

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 April 2009
We knew that. So when the president tells the world that we’re not a Christian or Jewish nation (or Muslim) but a ‘nation of citizens’, he was spinning his own agenda for a new approach to diplomacy.



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