Politics

‘Political street-fighting’

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 February 2010

Last week, President Obama angrily alleged that Republicans (though some of that bloc were conservative Democrats) were holding up confirmations on a bundle of his nominees to various posts, so he threated to make recess appointments if necessary. Within about a day he got his way and backed off, satisfied with the power of the threat.

One thing Haiti doesn’t need

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 January 2010

And neither do the rest of us concentrating on the human impact of the disaster there and sending humanitarian relief.

What to call the media

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 September 2009

Odd….three times in one day, I’ve heard or read references to the need to stop using the term ‘mainstream media’.

Power to the people

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 September 2009

This is community organising with adrenalin pumping.

The right question

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 September 2009

It was a bit overstated for the media to characterize conservative outrage over President Obama’s address to the nation’s schoolchildren as “foolish” or overblown.

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