Kate Sheppard

Hunter‘s speech is all over the place – China’s stealing American jobs, illegal immigrants are stealing American jobs, good thing we fought the communists in El Salvador in the ’80s, Israel rocks, Iran shouldn’t have nukes. He promises to have a border fence up along the entire border in his first six months, and pledges […]

I cited this article earlier about a CBS poll that found abortion and gay marriage ranking below the Iraq War and health care as the top issues concerning evangelical voters. Another interesting element of the CBS piece is that it highlights the difference between candidates affirming their commitment to Christian values, and their real-life piety. […]

This “religion in politics” panel is painful. Dueling old white guys on whether unborn people or living people are the most important issue for evangelicals, and whether Christians need to worry about the planet. Jim Wallis: Poverty should be the biggest concern for evangelicals. Richard Land: I don’t care what this CBS poll says, all […]

Fred Thompson seems to be acknowledging that his entire life hasn’t been saintly – which I guess is better than pretending. While he cites his voting record in the Senate as solidly pro-life, he says it wasn’t until his late-in-life child with his second wife that he was really on-board with the pro-life movement: “My […]

I’m about to head out to the Values Voter Summit, put on by the Family Research Council, that will be taking place here over the weekend. It’s dubbed as the “largest gathering of values voters from across the nation,” and thousands are expected to attend. As the Post reports this morning, these voters are only […]

Over on Desmogblog, we learn that the White House has been thwarting their efforts to find out more about the cancellation of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite mission. No big surprise there. Writer Mitchell Anderson filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request last month for copies of any records “relating to the […]

This case out of California raises some interesting questions about sex offender residency laws. A measure approved by voters in the state last November bars any sex offender from living within 2,000-foot of public parks and schools, even if their offense was not against a child. The state began enforcing the rule last week, and […]

Commenter Dilan responds to my post on reporters’ privilege legislation: [T]he problem is that the press relies way too much on unnamed sources, that most quotes from such sources have nothing to do with whistleblowing, and that many of these quotes are anonymous solely because it serves the source’s personal or political interest, not the […]

The House passed the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 yesterday, the first federal law of its kind granting qualified privilege to reporters and protecting us from compelled testimony and forced revelation of confidential sources to federal investigators. It passed by an overwhelming majority, 398-21. And hey, it even includes protections for some bloggers. […]

Bush has appointed yet another birth-control foe to head contraceptive programming at the Department of Health and Human Services. As the deputy assistant secretary for population affairs, Susan Orr will advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on “a wide range of reproductive health topics, including adolescent pregnancy, family planning, and sterilization, as […]