Overpopulation, anti-humanism, and Cheng Guangcheng

The Obama administration was involved at the highest levels of diplomacy with China last week to negotiate a deal over the fate of a human rights activist targeted by the Chinese government because he exposed so much abuse tied to… Read More

Obama’s Awkward Bragging Campaign

He has used other bluffs to their fullest extent. Now the president and his team are playing his ’killed Osama bin Laden’ card for all it’s worth. Is it a gamble?
I think so. For many reasons. But first, let… Read More

Meanwhile, Ron Paul

He shouldn’t be an ‘also ran’ or even an afterthought. And he’s not being taken as one, at least by those who realize the importance and strength of the candidate’s following.
I’ve been saying for a while now that whoever… Read More

On Earth Day

At its core, stewardship of the environment is an important ideal. At its extremes, it has become an anti-human ideology.
Dr. Robert Zubrin explains in detail with extensive references in his book Merchants of Despair. From the forward:
Antihumanism is… Read More

‘Working Mothers’ is Redundant

I remember being very impressed many years ago hearing a man of celebrity status earnestly credit his wife in an interview with having the toughest job in the world. She worked in the home raising their children, and he marveled… Read More

HHS Mandate Remains Unchanged

On the morning of the religious freedom rallies across America last Friday, organizer Eric Scheidler was questioned by a network television news anchor about the goal of the event. “Since the administraiton already provided an ‘accommodation’ for religious objection” said… Read More

What Breitbart Leaves Us

Andrew Breitbart was passionately invested in the battle of ideas engaged through social media. He was a thought warrior whose presence was so pervasive, it’s hard to believe we’re talking about him in the past tense.
There are too many… Read More

Race and Class and Politics

I could write an extemporaneous dissertation on the political race and the human race, class acts and class warfare, and the politicization of everything including morals and the natural law and constitutional liberties never before threatened by government. But I… Read More

The Bogus Birth Control Debate

President Obama’s mandate requiring free access to contraception with virtually no employer exemption is at core a consitutional threat to religious liberty, not a heated debate about contraception and Church teaching. However, it quickly turned into that.
So now that… Read More

Obama Mandate’s Resistance Coalition

The president may have been surprised by the unusual and overwhelming unity among Catholic Americans after he issued an unprecedented threat to religious liberty most directly aimed at Catholic institutions. But he probably didn’t expect a whole movement across America… Read More

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About Sheila Liaugminas

Sheila Liaugminas

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


Her writing and broadcasting cover matters of faith, culture, politics and the media. She reported for Time magazine in its Midwest Bureau for 20 years. At Chicago’s NBC-owned station, she co-hosted the TV magazine program ‘YOU.’


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.


Sheila formerly hosted three radio programs, The Right Questions; and Issues & Answers for Relevant Radio, and America’s Lifeline on the Salem network. She currently hosts the daily radio program A Closer Look on Relevant Radio and serves as the Network News Director. She has appeared on the BBC’s ‘World Have Your Say.’


Sheila reports on and analyzes issues in the news and also contributes feature articles to MercatorNet.com. Find her on Twitter @sheilareports


She is married with two sons, one ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago, the other a doctoral student and writer, studying abroad.