Sharon Hughes column
Sharon Hughes is Founder and President of The Center for Changing Worldviews and the host of Changing Worldviews & WOMANTalk radio on KDIA in San Francisco, NPLR and online at Salem Web Network’s Oneplace.com. Her articles appear in many recognized news sites and publications, including FRONTPAGEMAG. She also blogs for NewsBusters.org, a division of The Media Research Center, and has appeared on FOX News and other national radio programs.
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May 11, 2012
Issues do not live in a vacume. There are worldviews behind every issue, and those worldviews need to be a part of whatever issue we are debating, otherwise we . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 29, 2011
Okay, this picture is funny, but some take the comparison seriously.
The Wall Street Journal had an article a few months back when Harold Camping . . .
Sharon Hughes
January 18, 2011
January is National Sanctity of Human Life Month and that means a dedicated focus on life ethics, facts and laws, such as Roe v. Wade.
As Ronald Reagan once . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 4, 2010
Do you love America?
I mean do you LOVE America?
If so, why?
Is it because of the personal liberties you enjoy?
Is it because you live in the most . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 21, 2010
Ronald Reagan warned: "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 5, 2010
Can I ask you a question? Did anyone really think that President Obama's "Bipartisan Health Care Summit" would be a game changer?
While pundits of the old . . .
Sharon Hughes
December 21, 2009
How much have you heard from the mainstream media about the hypocrisy that took place at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, such as . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 8, 2009
While the White House claims an urgency to pass healthcare reform, and while Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, tries . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 14, 2009
A few years ago I wrote about Al Gore's criticism of George W. Bush's faith. I found it so fascinating then that a former Vice President of the United States . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 13, 2009
Margaret Thatcher said, "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Some practical advice.
While the government . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 13, 2009
What's Ahead?
That's the $64,000 (or should I say trillion dollar) question, isn't it?
Seems more people have ventured into the prediction business this . . .
Sharon Hughes
November 25, 2008
Thanksgiving marks the season when hearts begin turning towards home, and this year again finds many of our young men and women in two wars they did not choose, . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 23, 2008
On September 23, 2008 speaking to the UN in New York City, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked the U.S. again declaring the "American empire in the . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 11, 2008
This week, in the small chapel where George Washington attended after his inauguration, which is near Ground Zero and the most extensive September 11th museum . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 8, 2008
Chris Wallace uncharacteristically gave Barack Obama's Chief Strategist, David Axelrod, carte blanche during his interview today on FOX News . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 5, 2008
Shortly after John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his VP running mate the media and blogosphere rumor mills went into full speed, printing everything from . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 30, 2008
Barack Obama is gaining some support with evangelicals even though he is one of the strongest pro-choice Senators in Congress. Is abortion no longer important . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 25, 2008
Every time Memorial Day and Veterans Day comes around, my mind goes to the many times I've attended parades and special observances put on by the cities in our . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 1, 2008
There are some who are fighting against the annual National Day of Prayer.
Bill Baker of the National Day of Reason says:
"Why is this 'National/Global . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 1, 2008
Barack Obama's friend and pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said in a 2003 church publication, "In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11. . . .
Sharon Hughes
January 18, 2008
"Darwin Day", a celebration of "the life of Charles Darwin as the symbol for a global celebration of science and humanity" is coming to a school near you on . . .
Sharon Hughes
December 22, 2007
Well, the 'Green Grinches' are at it again.
The BBC reports that A carbon footprint equivalent to 6,000 car journeys around the world, or 51,000 tonnes of . . .
Sharon Hughes
December 11, 2007
Once terribly divided, Jews and Christians are finding a new unity as the walls between them are coming down. Why is this happening? Primarily for two reasons.
. . .
Sharon Hughes
May 24, 2007
While most of the media attention about the various Iraq-war funding bills has been focused on the battle between the Democrat-led Congress and President Bush . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 7, 2007
Al Gore was in Oslo a week ago giving his 'inconvenient truth' global warming speech to a crowd that included the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
. . .
Sharon Hughes
March 13, 2007
It seems every Easter now we are seeing someone new talking about Jesus in unorthodox ways. This year it's about a new tomb found with proponents claiming Jesus . . .
Sharon Hughes
January 29, 2007
Did you notice the decrease in news coverage of this year's March for Life in Washington DC last week?
I tuned in to local and cable channels every day . . .
Sharon Hughes
December 7, 2006
I've been chewing on whether to write about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to us 'Noble Americans,' and have decided I can't just let it pass.
It's . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 31, 2006
This Halloween, what's your choice for the scariest — out of control parents or crazy dictators?
A few week's ago we watched as out-of-control heads of state . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 18, 2006
What do some hospitals do with babies that are aborted but still alive? Throw them in the 'dirty room.' What happens if a nurse reports such treatment? They're . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 3, 2006
First we've watched Iran's President Ahmadinejad display his anti-Semitic colors in all their glory, and for all the world to see. Then Venezuelan President . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 7, 2006
'Back to school' no longer stands out as September's main event to me ...ever since 9/11.
It's hard to believe that September 11, 2006 marks five years since . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 8, 2006
I received an email in response to Part I of Fashionable Burkas? telling me that I would do better if I loved the terrorists:
"Your jab at Muslim terrorist . . .
Sharon Hughes
June 8, 2006
Having vowed loyalty to Osama bin Laden in 2004 and orchestrating what the Washington Post calls the bloodiest suicide bombings of the insurgency, beheading . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 31, 2006
It's hard to believe that September 2006 will mark 5 years since the 9/11 terrorist attack on America. Is our nation ready to revisit this unthinkable tragedy . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 16, 2006
Conservatives are not happy with the President's plan for border control as outlined in his speech on Monday evening, May 15, 2006. Moderates spoke of its . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 18, 2006
The American people have heard so many conflicting stories about the attitudes of the Iraqi people towards America, as well as our soldiers'' attitudes about . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 14, 2006
Actor Rob Reiner, who gained his fame as 'Meathead' on the popular All in the Family sitcom, has successfully taken his liberal television political views to . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 9, 2006
Long gone are the days of playing Bridge with your friends. Women today are opting for the newest craze, internet gambling.
With Las Vegas' plans for new . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 22, 2006
While terror leaders say more missiles are on their way to 'bring hell' to Israelis after a rocket attack was thwarted, and that 'a 3rd Intifada' is on the way, . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 17, 2006
Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and an UNSCOM weapons inspector in Iraq from 1996-1998, told Fox News' Hannity & Colmes on Thursday, . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 6, 2006
What was liberal LA Times Columnist, Joel Stein, thinking when he admitted recently in his article, "Warriors & Wussies," what conservatives have been saying . . .
Sharon Hughes
January 27, 2006
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei' and his cabinet, most of which are Fatah, announced their resignation following the January 25th Palestinian elections. . . .
Sharon Hughes
January 17, 2006
While pundits are debating whether "Brokeback Mountain" may herald acceptance of gay marriage, many taxpayers and teachers may be surprised to learn that almost . . .
Sharon Hughes
December 13, 2005
While the New York Times has proven itself to be selective in its reporting all the details about the war in Iraq, it seems to have no problem running attack . . .
Sharon Hughes
December 6, 2005
Once terribly divided, Jews and Christians are finding the walls between them coming down and a new unity, primarily for two reasons.
Number one because . . .
Sharon Hughes
November 28, 2005
"I oppose amnesty," said President George W. Bush in his speech before a group of border enforcement personnel at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, . . .
Sharon Hughes
November 14, 2005
CODE PINK's invasion on school campuses and recruitment offices this week with their "Not Your Soldier" & "National Stand Down" student days on November 17th & . . .
Sharon Hughes
November 4, 2005
The new ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stating, "There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 18, 2005
I watched a segment of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" seven-part documentary last night with my husband, and I highly recommend it to anyone who has forgotten the . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 12, 2005
Describing a brief interview NBC's Matt Lauer had with President Bush and the First Lady in front of a Habitat for Humanity construction project yesterday, . . .
Sharon Hughes
October 6, 2005
While George Will says Harriet Miers is "The Wrong Pick" and Michelle Malkin is unimpressed with what she calls the "coffee-n-donut" traits of Miers that . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 23, 2005
While the mainstream media reported and debated claims of racism as the reason for the poor response in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the Anti-Defamation . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 2, 2005
Hurricane Katrina has wiped out news coverage of what became the top news story for weeks, the Cindy Sheehan campout-at-Crawford anti-war vigil. But that does . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 25, 2005
In her Monday column, Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times gave another update on the Sheehan vs. Bush saga saying, "There is no sign that Mr. Bush will . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 15, 2005
We are at war. More threats exist. FOX News' Beltway Boys talked over the weekend about Russia and China currently conducting joint military training. And as we . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 5, 2005
John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, who has also covered elections for The Progressive and has had his articles appear in The New York Times, . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 27, 2005
A few weeks ago I covered the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. In my closing thoughts on our radio show I talked about how the American Psychiatric . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 19, 2005
Richard Dawkins, a devotee of Charles Darwin said that everyone believed in evolution except "the ignorant, stupid or wicked." If you check out MSNBC's online . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 11, 2005
Known terrorist operatives are finding a welcome mat at the door of our northern neighbor, Canada.
When asked why Canada is knowingly allowing terrorist . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 5, 2005
Gay Pride was celebrated once again in the streets of America last week as part of June's Gay Pride Month. Here in San Francisco, home of the largest gay parade . . .
Sharon Hughes
June 19, 2005
Our nation just celebrated Father's Day. For many the day serves as a time for getting together with dad and granddad to honor them in some special way. For . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 28, 2005
Every time Memorial Day and Veterans Day comes around my minds goes to the many times I've attended parades and special observances put on by the cities in our . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 4, 2005
Should an effort be made to explain that evolution is just a theory when teaching it in public school? Should teachers explain the racist philosophical views . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 29, 2005
No longer just a plot in the movies, scientists can now merge species, such as Alba the florescent bunny. Not only that, but they can merge man and animals, man . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 23, 2005
The Vietnam Vet who spit on Jane Fonda as she was signing her new book was the topic of debate in the news this week — should he have done it? Everyone said no, . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 15, 2005
April 15th, the day and deadline we love to hate. As many of us painfully went through the grueling process of either filing ourselves, or collecting every . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 30, 2005
According to fellow radio talk show host Glen Beck, CBS posted an article announcing Terri Schiavo's death on its News website BEFORE SHE DIED. Written by . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 21, 2005
I have a lot of questions concerning the Terri Schiavo case. Questions like:
Which arguments should be front and center in the Terri Schiavo case — . . .
Sharon Hughes
January 1, 2005
A little over three years ago Americans faced one of the biggest violations in our history — the terrorist attack of 9/11. Because of it we have a heightened . . .
Sharon Hughes
November 23, 2004
Thanksgiving marks the season when hearts begin turning towards home, and this year again finds many of our young men and women in a war they did not choose, . . .
Sharon Hughes
November 5, 2004
BUSH Wins 51% of the Popular Vote & 279 of Electoral College
(Kerry 48% & 252 EC)
(Data gathered from USA Today online and the San Francisco Chronicle)
. . .
Sharon Hughes
October 3, 2004
We have very light beige carpets in our home and every spot shows. So after the carpets are vacuumed, we get out our handy "spot remover" to take care of any . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 16, 2004
In January, New Jersey became the second state to legalize stem cell/cloning research. In April, USA Today reported that in 33 states, 100 bills, including . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 12, 2004
I remember years ago seeing Al Gore on television promoting his book, Earth in the Balance — Ecology and the Human Spirit, and Tipper talking about her concern . . .
Sharon Hughes
September 2, 2004
Did you ever think you'd see the day when a prominent Democrat politician would be so frank about his Party and so supportive of a Republican President?
Even . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 20, 2004
Evidently there seems to be a contradiction between John Kerry's personal war diary and his approved war biography by Douglas Brinkley, as reported recently by . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 18, 2004
The Associated Press reports that over 4,000 scientists, which includes 48 Nobel Prize winners, have signed a statement "opposing the Bush administration's use . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 13, 2004
It's been six months since marriage licenses were illegally issued in San Francisco to four thousand homosexual couples. Thursday the California Supreme Court . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 9, 2004
It may seem like a sequel to one of California Governor Schwarzenegger's movies, but it's not. Genetic Savings and Clone, the first US firm to produce and sell . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 5, 2004
Included in the display of carefully orchestrated talking points on stage at the DNC was John Kerry's and John Edwards' belief in two Americas. "Plantation" . . .
Sharon Hughes
August 4, 2004
Did you catch Bill O'Reilly's interview with Laura Bush last night? How about Teresa Heintz-Kerry's response to Bush supporters chanting "4 more years"? Her . . .
Sharon Hughes
July 27, 2004
My Dear Fellow Americans,
As thousands of hopeful democrats filled the convention halls in Boston, "more united than ever" we are told by party leaders, I . . .
Sharon Hughes
May 27, 2004
The month of May has its share of holidays and observances such as Mother's Day, Armed Forces Day, V-E Day, the National Day of Prayer and Memorial Day. Note . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 19, 2004
Wednesday, April 21st will see the annual 'Day of Silence' observed on close to 2,000 junior high, high school, college and university campuses across America. . . .
Sharon Hughes
April 4, 2004
Chairman is now chairperson; Assemblyman is Assembly person. No more using the words cowboy or cowgirl, landlady, or landlord. The phrase Founding Fathers has . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 9, 2004
When we look at the changing worldviews around us there's nothing like direct quotes to bring out the reality of the mentalities that exist around an issue to . . .
Sharon Hughes
March 1, 2004
What is happening to our educational establishment? Once the finest in the world, is it becoming a political platform to undermine our liberty? Where are . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 16, 2004
A Policeman's job can be a thankless job, and police discouragement is not limited to any one city. As James D. Steffens, a police lieutenant in Clearwater, Fla . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 9, 2004
Sex Scandals, misappropriations of funds and cover-ups...all eventually lead to fallen idols. Whether it's in the church, business, government, Hollywood, or in . . .
Sharon Hughes
February 5, 2004
Ethnic Cleansing is the systematic removal of an ethnic group from the population of a particular area. This may be done through genocide (mass killing) or . . .
