“Values voters” paint Republicans into a corner

Barbara O’Brien of Mahablog is one of my favourite political bloggers - her posts are sharp and insightful.  In a recent post she looks at the effect of so-called “values voters” on the Republican party.  The Republicans are beholden to the Religious Right, a group which finds its meaning in its opposition to abortion and [...]

“The only moral abortion…”

I have strong opinions with regards to abortion - strong but conflicted. When I read Joyce Arthur ’s article at Talk2Action I was first angered by the hypocrisy, but then tried to figure out what drove this sort of attitude. The article documents a (large) number of cases where anti-abortion activists insist on [...]