Sheila Reports

IRS targeting scandal grows, among others

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:34:18 GMT

There is bi-partisan outrage over the widening scope of the revelation that the powerful Internal Revenue Service has been targeting groups said to be conservative for the past couple of years. But the IRS target list was much wider than that, and the agency’s treatment of these groups and citizens is both shocking and disturbing. Read more...

Gosnell convicted, Castro charged

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:13:34 GMT

Mother’s Day just passed with fair weather and loving celebrations in much of the country. But it was surrounded by a perfect storm. Read more...

Gosnell uncovers what Roe wrought

Tue, 07 May 2013 04:40:25 GMT

And undercover videos show Gosnell is no ‘aberration.’ Some honest advocates of ‘choice’ are seriously reconsidering their whole premise and belief system in light of recent news. While some ‘abortion rights’ activists are coming unglued over these revelations. Read more...

Big Abortion exposed

Thu, 02 May 2013 04:38:26 GMT

Revelations about the abortion industry are coming out at a new pace now and in greater detail than ever. It’s forcing a very public confrontation with the truth about abortion and getting people talking as sone never have before. The cover-ups are getting uncovered, and Big Abortion is getting unprecedented exposure. Read more...

Kermit Gosnell: the back alley abortionist Roe ensconced

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:40:46 GMT

But that’s giving away one of the punchlines of a very lengthy, gut-wrenching, soul-searching article in the Wall Street Journal the other day that, taken together with the commentaries and articles linked within it, is filled with punches to the gut. It may be the best handling of the worst abortion news we’ve heard publicly since the news that the Supreme Court made abortion legal with its Roe decision. Read more...

Gosnell: “The logic of the abortion license”

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:36:27 GMT

Not every abortionist, nor even most, nor maybe even any other abortionist commits the horrific violations of human life that Kermit Gosnell did, the details of which are on the public record in his ongoing trial. But the fact is, every abortionist ends a human life. Read more...

Boston Strong: Grace under relentless pressure

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:28:10 GMT

The day after last Monday’s Boston marathon bombings, the former mayor who embodies the great big heart and soul of that great city was defiant and determined. They not only responded to the terror with great humanity that day he told me on Tuesday, they would come back stronger and in greater numbers for next year’s Patriot’s Day landmark event. Nobody could have yet known what the week would still hold for Bostonians, and how drained they would be by the end of it. But, thank God, it ended. Read more...

Another senseless act of violence: Boston Marathon

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:00:58 GMT

Acts of violence never make sense, no matter how this one turns out to be explained. Every one of these random attacks assaults our sensibilities and rattles whatever semblence of security we still have in our daily lives. We can’t live in fear, so soon after these things happen, we go back to busy life as usual. But with a little more dis-ease. What else can we do? Read more...

HHS contraceptive mandate threatens more than religious freedom

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:20:01 GMT

It’s an assault on sensibilities. Worse, it’s perpetuating the real ‘war on women’ along with the myths about a phony one. Because the drugs being claimed under the umbrella of ‘women’s preventive health services’ are actually dangerous for women’s health. Who’s talking about that? Read more...

African-American Clergy Coalition speaks out on marriage

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:02:42 GMT

Truth is, African American pastors have been engaged in the real civil rights battle for decades, fighting to end violence and respect human dignity in their communities, while largely ignored by the media. Now that their voices are speaking out on the hot button issue of marriage law, they’re getting attention. But some media seemed not to have noticed that the day they gave the story prominence was the anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Oh, the irony. Read more...

Dear MSNBC: Do a series on Human Life 101

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:48:50 GMT

I was considering making that a question as a header. But there’s no question. Read more...

We should be able to talk about marriage

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:56:08 GMT

Exchanges were bad enough back when Proposition 8 was voted on in California, and again in the subsequent court appeals of it when people were yelling at the opposition and demonstrations got physically confrontational and some high profile people even got death threats. The passion and vitriol grew and spread after that. This week, when the Supreme Court began hearing arguments from both sides of the marriage divide, media coverage showed that we’re not having a debate of different views. We’re having a culture war. Read more...

The trials of marriage

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:32:08 GMT

The US Supreme Court hears opening arguments on same-sex marriage law Tuesday. It’s been on trial for years. Read more...

UN studies ‘status of women’

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:26:08 GMT

That requires a qualifier, depending on what constitutes the UN, and which group there is being cited. Read more...

Advancing radical agenda

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:17:08 GMT

Sometimes, it seems like we’re dwelling in Wonderland. But some of us who are aware are doing a lot of wondering. Especially about headlines and stories that are too bizarre to make up, but too extreme to be true. Except…they are. Read more...

Pope Francis surprises

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:02:33 GMT

It hasn’t yet been a week since he was elected, but the man announced as Cardinal Bergoglio/Pope Francis who first appeared to the world on the loggia of St. Peter’s and stood stiff and straight and speechless for what seemed a long time took only a few minutes to throw the world off balance. In a good way. Read more...

‘We have a pope’

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:00:08 GMT

Habemus Papam. The first words of the proclamation that was just earlier signaled by the effusive white smoke billowing from the chimney rising out of the Sistine Chapel followed by the loudly chiming bells of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Just enough time for people who weren’t already there to run to the square from all directions and be part of the world’s biggest celebratory love fest. Read more...

As the Conclave begins

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:01:13 GMT

The world is watching Rome and the Roman Catholic Church, only as it does it the big moments. The attention that was riveted instantly on the papacy when Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement has only intensified over the subsequent weeks. Now it’s in overdrive, as the College of Cardinals enters the Conclave to elect a new pope. Read more...

Obama’s drone attack power meets resistance

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:21:08 GMT

This president and his administration are not used to pushback, and haven’t had to answer to much of it anyway, thanks to a largely complicit media and a discombobulated Congress mostly unable to directly engage him. And then came Rand Paul. Read more...

‘Peter is not there’

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:32:56 GMT

The official Latin term for the time between popes holding the office of the papacy is the Interregnum. There is no pope. Vatican operations go into near shutdown or at least restricted mode with key officials doing only essential duties, attending to the most critical things, while the college of cardinals carry the weight of the church and world on their shoulders. But there’s no word for the uneasiness countless Catholics feel around the world for this time of the sede vacante, the empty seat. As one renowned cardinal put it last time around, in 2005, ‘it’s frightening, Peter is not there.’ Read more...

Pope Benedict’s last audience

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:11:07 GMT

The world is watching. Hopefully, they’re watching, reading and listening to reputable sources on what the pope said at his last public address. Read more...

One good thing about the Oscars

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:55:00 GMT

A young and new star stays true to herself and her values, and by that beautiful simplicty teaches the high and mighty a lesson. How sweet it is. Read more...

Of Pope Benedict XVI and Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:18:28 GMT

So there, side by side in two top-of-the-fold articles in the Sunday New York Times the other day, were two stories that are seemingly unrelated, but are totally of a piece. A few days later now, they demand attention. Read more...

While Benedict XVI is still Pope

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:34:51 GMT

The media and Vatican watchers are busy speculating about the recent past (what ‘really’ prompted this resignation) and the future (who is ‘most likely’ to replace him), I think it’s important to take the opportunity while he’s still in the Chair of Peter to recognize what is the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI. Read more...

Dear media covering Pope Benedict

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:05:09 GMT

Do your homework. Read more...

Pope Benedict’s retirement fatigue

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:47:23 GMT

The man himself is clearly a tired and overly wrought servant who recognizes and admits his failing health and strength. The global coverage of his historic announcement to step down has unleashed an exhausting barrage of analysis, mostly from those who know not of what they speak. Read more...

HHS ‘compromise’: “80 pages of nothing new”

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:13:46 GMT

The basic mandate that employers with religious objections to the HHS contraceptive coverage still have to comply or pay punitive fines still stands. The latest fig leaf changes little, but it took a few days to wade through the dense and convoluted legalese the government issued to essentially say ‘we’re not willing to budge, more than an inch.’ Read more...

Benghazi Inquiry: Defiance as a tactic

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:37:08 GMT

Congressional investigators finally got Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before their panel to ask for answers they long wanted to hear. What did you know? When did you know it? Who did what and when? She turned the tables on them. Read more...

“Abortion is bad karma”

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:30:51 GMT

That was only one sign seen at the March for Life in Washington D.C. Friday, carried by the Hare Krishnas. Feminists for Life were there, Atheists for Life, and members of the gay Republican group GOProud joined the March this year, because they’re all against abortion. And for human dignity. For all human beings. Read more...

Roe at 40

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:54:28 GMT

“Picture a football stadium that holds 55,000 people, and then multiply that to 1,000 such filled stadiums, and you’ll have an idea of how many human beings we have lost, how many babies have been killed, since the Roe v. Wade decision 40 years ago.” Read more...

To really honor Dr. King

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:00:40 GMT

First, respect the fact that he was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Reverend first. Read more...

Obama sworn in

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:15:44 GMT

On two Bibles, one formerly belonging to President Abraham Lincoln, the other to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read more...

Obama declares Religious Freedom Day

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:50:20 GMT

In another twist on news that doesn’t square with other news, and words by the president that don’t match actions by the president… Read more...

The incongruity of the anti-violence campaign

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:58:11 GMT

A question I've always wanted to ask President Obama... Read more...

How to lift up instead of bring down

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:39:16 GMT

How to ennoble instead of demean or belittle. Let’s talk. Read more...

Resolve to be better informed

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:09:22 GMT

Let’s expand our horizons for engaging the world this year. Read more...

It takes a holiday village

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:13:55 GMT

Most Christmas decorations didn’t get out of storage this year and what went up was simple and nice and enough. But one little string of lights I couldn’t get to turned out to be more illuminating that I could have imagined. Read more...

What Child Is This?

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 06:25:26 GMT

That’s the name of a Christmas hymn. But like so many others this year, hymns I’ve heard all my life and I know by rote, it’s striking me as profound. Read more...

End of the World

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:16:44 GMT

Being a pop culture, it’s no suprise that everyone seemed to get on the bandwagon that the Mayan calendar pointed to December 21st, 2012 as the end of our time. It was likely just the end of their space on that wheel. And they thought they’d get around to continuing it later, since they had plenty of time. Read more...

Obamacare HHS mandate gets judicial correction

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:16:17 GMT

It was always wrong. But because it was issued by executive fiat, its violation of law had to go through the process of being tried, and there are many lawsuits standing against it. Read more...

Judge Robert Bork, R.I.P

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:10:50 GMT

May the tributes this great jurist deserves establish his legacy, and may the caricatures fade away. Read more...

In the aftermath of horror

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:09:36 GMT

Here we are again. Collectively crying and praying and consoling and grieving after another massacre, and this one in a school with innocent little children brutally slaughtered. When will this end? How can we change things enough to bring this to an end? Or can we? Read more...

Human Rights Day

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:10:56 GMT

Did you know that December 10th is International Human Rights Day? Read more...

Babies survive abortion, left to die

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:55:56 GMT

Sounds terrible, doesn't it? Well, it is. And we’re supposed to stop talking about abortion, as a matter of political expediency. Read more...

The royal baby

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:45:09 GMT

The announcement that Prince William and Princess Kate have conceived a child, an heir to the throne, has been most providential. Read more...

American culture and politics going forward

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:24:26 GMT

The president made that word his campaign slogan followed by a period. Now it should be followed by a question mark. Read more...

Post-election ruminations

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:43:13 GMT

And they are revealing. Not only about what went wrong for champions of one candidate, much of one party and many advocates of important causes, but how to learn from that. High level disagreement there… Read more...

Justices order Obamacare back to court

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:17:36 GMT

Had President Obama lost the election, it would have been eliminated and replaced by new healthcare reform. But his win doesn’t assure that his signature legislation will survive intact. Read more...

Forward?

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:13:32 GMT

So now that President Obama has won another four years to fundamentally transform America as he promised in 2008, running to retain that office on the simple premise that he wanted to go forward, the question which should have been answered in the campaign but wasn’t even asked, now looms: To where and what are we headed? Read more...

Pause for Thanks

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:39:48 GMT

This should be part of our daily lives. But at least we have one day set aside to remember that. Read more...