Kate Sheppard

Huckabee‘s speech, in addition to emphasizing his positive feelings about finishing at 12 percent in New Hampshire, also manages to berate the Northeast multiple times. This is is way better than anyone thought “this old hum-drum boy could do up in New England,” he continues. “We sure are feeling better about you guys.” I realize […]

The The Times finally realizes that energy policy is important to voters, especially those in the strongly independent and frigid lands of New Hampshire. Independents make up 40-some-odd percent of the state’s voters, and their concerns about the rising costs of energy seem to be driving their voting decisions pretty strongly. But what the Times […]

You can’t escape all the You can’t escape all the Obama coverage in the news right now, and for the most part, it’s been good coverage for him. But there seems to be a turn toward the “magical negro” slant, especially by left and mainstream writers, that’s resoundingly offensive. We’ve seen the malicious version of […]

Via Andrew Sullivan, Bloggasm has done an interesting study of traffic at major liberal and conservative blogs. Seems readership has been either stagnant or in decline on top liberal blogs while increasing at their conservative counterparts, at least. Bloggasm proprietor Simon Owens admits that it’s difficult to make guesses as to why: It could be […]

Over on the blog of the African American Environmentalist Association, Norris McDonald raises some interesting questions about what role black Americans will play in energy production in the future. The passage of a new energy bill last month makes this a good time to start asking these questions about how to use a new energy […]

While While Edwards‘ second-place finish in Iowa last night was surely a boost to his campaign, it must be somewhat troubling for him that he placed third among union households in the state, pulling 24 percent of that group, considering how much emphasis he’s put on that demographic. Clinton led with 31 percent of that […]

Huckabee‘s speech is decidedly more centrist than anything he’s been saying on the campaign trail thus far. Most notably, only one mention of “God,” “Jesus,” or anyone of the holy ilk, and a passing jab at Bush as he pledges “to give this world a better leader.” Also notable: not a single specific statement about […]

Hillary Clinton was on the Today Show yesterday morning, arguing that caucusing is especially hard for women voters in Iowa. She says women find caucusing daunting because they don’t like to vote publicly, and would rather keep their decision to themselves. I could take on this statement for being decidedly unfeminist, but more importantly, this […]

I agree with Jared Diamond, who took to the pages of today’s Times to say that we could solve our resource, population growth, and climate change problems with a simple overhaul of how (and how much) we consume, creating a new model for the burgeoning middle class the world over rather than encouraging them to […]

One can’t help but chuckle when year-end emails from the Bush administration arrive with subject lines like “2007: A Year of Environmental Accomplishments.” Let’s see, in 2007 the Bush administration managed to delay progress on a post-Kyoto pact, prevent the world from establishing binding targets for emissions cuts, create their own alternative summit of the […]