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Sheila Liaugminas

Sheila Liaugminas is an Emmy award-winning Chicago-based journalist in print and broadcast media.

Her writing and broadcasting covers matters of faith, culture, politics and the media. She reported for Time magazine in its Midwest Bureau for over 20 years. At Chicago’s NBC-owned station, she co-hosted the TV magazine program YOU. Sheila formerly hosted three radio programs, The Right Questions; and Issues & Answers for Relevant
Radio, and America’s Lifeline on the Salem network.

Besides her work on MercatorNet, Sheila has published in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Crisis Magazine, Voices Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, the Center for Morality in Public Life blog Ethika Politika and the National Review Online.

She currently hosts the daily radio program A Closer Look on Relevant Radio and serves as the Network News Director.

HHS mandate 'for the women'
Sheila Liaugminas | 22 Feb 2012
Some audacious claims have been made in Washington lately on behalf of women. They clearly speak for Planned Parenthood and women in league with their cause. Where are all the women for whom they do not speak?

SOPA, PIPA and offshoots
Sheila Liaugminas | 21 Feb 2012
Was the online boycott of cybersecurity legislation an act of democracy or hyperbolic overreaction?

Obama and the Catholic divide
Sheila Liaugminas | 17 Feb 2012
He won the presidency by capturing slightly over half of the Catholic vote. He probably can’t count on that in the next election.

Why mandate birth control?
Sheila Liaugminas | 15 Feb 2012
The national firestorm over the HHS contraceptive mandate and conscience rights, President Obama’s ‘war on the church’ and constitutionally protected religious liberty is a confrontation necessitated by unprecedented government action. But all that fire is distracting us from the spark of ignition: Why did the federal government mandate health insurers to cover contraception, sterilization and the morning after pill in the first place?

Obama response to church unacceptable
Sheila Liaugminas | 12 Feb 2012
Misinformation abounds in the media about President Obama’s alleged ”accommodation” for religious liberty in his administration’s hardline HHS mandate.

Administration digs in on HHS mandate
Sheila Liaugminas | 12 Feb 2012
Back in 2008 when Barack Obama was running for president, his media and message-savvy team smugly dubbed him ‘no drama Obama,’ so controlled was his image. They’re going to have to come up with something new for 2012.

The impact of Obama silencing military chaplains
Sheila Liaugminas | 8 Feb 2012
Enough was already enough with this administration trampling conscience rights and religious liberties protected in the Constitution. Than he clamped down on speech rights of Army chaplains, for crying out loud.

Big abortion's 'gangster tactics'
Sheila Liaugminas | 6 Feb 2012
Some big media writers are using strong language to criticize the strongarm tactics Planned Parenthood used on the Komen foundation last week.

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