The The Clinton campaign is already trying to cushion the blow of possible March 4 losses. Today’s email to the press: Senator Obama is riding a surge of momentum that has enabled him to pour unprecedented resources into Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Obama campaign and its allies are outspending us two to […]
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard is a political reporter at Grist, and a former Prospect writing fellow.
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VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON OR YOUR BABIES WILL DIE!
I don’t really have anything to say about this new Clinton ad airing in Texas, other than to note that I prefer it when Democrats leave the fear-mongering to that other political party: –Kate Sheppard
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MUSLIM AMERICAN VOTERS.
In all the rush to assure voters that In all the rush to assure voters that Barack Obama is not Muslim, one sector of American society has been thrown under the bus: actual Muslims. The San Jose Mercury News brings us this story today about the effects on their community of using this sort of […]
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BARRED FROM SOCIETY.
Dana pointed to the stats on women in prison released today in the Times. But far more shocking in that report were the stats on racial disparities in our prison system. The study, conducted by the Pew Center on the States, found that one in 15 black adults is in jail. Among young black men […]
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE V. CAP-AND-TRADE.
Last week, environmental justice groups from California issued a declaration against cap-and-trade, stating that pollution already disproportionately affects low-income, communities of color, and they will “fight at every turn” against regulations that create a carbon-trading system that would only exacerbate those trends. EJ groups, long overlooked in the more mainstream environmental movement, fear that climate […]
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DENIAL: A CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK.
Joe Romm has an excellent piece over on Salon taking on global warming deniers. It contains some good advice on ways not to feed denialist fires, specifically, when it comes to using terms like “consensus”: One of the most serious results of the overuse of the term “consensus” in the public discussion of global warming […]
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BLOOMBERG WATCH.
Apparently Apparently Michael Bloomberg is not running after all. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to stay on the sidelines, he warns: In the weeks and months ahead, I will continue to work to steer the national conversation away from partisanship and toward unity; away from ideology and toward common sense; away from sound bites […]
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I’LL SHOW YOU A TOTAL CROCK.
A few weeks ago, General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz told reporters that he thinks global warming is a “total crock of shit.” But he attested that he’s “a skeptic, not a denier,” and that his opinion “doesn’t matter” when it comes to what goes down at GM. After the blogosphere lashed out against Lutz’s […]
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PORTMAN’S MACACA MOMENT.
John McCain supporter and Ohio talk-radio host Bill Cunningham made headlines yesterday for repeatedly referring to Barack Obama using his middle name, Hussein, and disparaging the candidate as a terrorist sympathizer in introductory remarks at a McCain rally. But it was former Ohio congressman and former Bush administration official Rob Portman who really had his […]
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NAFTA AND EVERYTHING ‘AFTA.’
Matt and Ezra don’t seem to see what the big deal is over NAFTA, but I think both Clinton and Obama are right in plugging for a reevaluation of the labor and environmental standards of the deal and its counterparts, though they may well be doing so in Ohio now largely because it’s politically expedient […]
