Free Speech

Dear College Officials: Apply the Constitution

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 April 2011

We have another case of free speech rights being restricted on a campus by academic officials who need a course in constitutional protections.

Free speech has costs

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 March 2011

Like, tolerating the intolerable. Ugliness and outrageous offenses defended by the very people who gave their lives for that right. It really pushes the limits…

Controlling speech is bad enough

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 July 2010

But this is ridiculous.

No choice in Chicago

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 March 2010

The pro-life movement has been as adaptable as it has been enduring. When Chicago passed the insidious ‘bubble zone’ ordinance, politicians not only denied citizens their free speech rights, they robbed women of their right to have a true choice when facing a challenging pregnancy. But pro-lifers found a simple, legal and tasteful way to silently offer women aid. Or so they thought...

No choice

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 January 2010

This had to happen sooner or later. It’s interesting how the euphemistic marketing campaign behind the abortion movement that’s helped them change laws and language in this country for so long is coming to light more and more now over….a Super Bowl commercial. Oh, the irony.

Super Bowl drama

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 January 2010

Oh yeah…the Colts and the Saints and the sportscasters are hyping it, too.

What a disconnect

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 December 2009

So we have this manger scene which of course is all about the birth of the child at the center of Christianity and the ‘life and light’ he brought into the world, and besides all the other controversies over where it can’t be displayed, now there’s a new one.

‘People should be able to hold their government accountable’

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 November 2009

Early media coverage of President Obama’s visit to China wondered how widely his remarks there would be allowed to be heard because of strict censorship by that government.

The old ‘hate crimes’ ploy

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 October 2009

When you have power, and you want to silence voices of legitimate inquiry, it’s easy to charge dissenters with lawless speech.