by Heather Hastie | Aug 20, 2016 | US Politics
A couple of days ago I posted a clip from Dave Rubin where he suggested that supporting Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson in polls in order to get him the 15% support required to feature in the presidential debates might help to force the two major parties to...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 18, 2016 | US Politics
Anyone who follows this blog knows that if I was a US citizen I’d be voting for Hillary Clinton in the November elections. I don’t claim that she’s the perfect candidate, but I do think she’s the best option. She’s wickedly smart, easily...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 11, 2016 | Human Rights, US Politics
The two main candidates for the United States presidency both have a problem appealing to voters in terms of favourability and trustworthiness. Personally I consider the claims of Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty to be overblown, which I wrote about here. In fact,...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 18, 2016 | US Politics
In the press conference to announce his running mate for the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump spoke for 28 minutes, much of which was rambling about irrelevancies and resembled one of his rallies, before finally naming Mike Pence, governor or Indiana, and...
by Heather Hastie | Jul 5, 2016 | US Politics, Women
There is no doubt that Hillary Clinton has a trust deficit with voters. Both her Democratic and Republican opponents have questioned her honesty throughout the primary campaign and the innuendo has stuck. In August 2015 Quinnipiac University as part of their regular...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 15, 2016 | Religion, Terrorism, USA
As I said in my post yesterday about The Donald’s response to the tragedy in Orlando, such events bring out the best and worst in people. Here are some of the most revolting responses by average US citizens. There is a good one at the end to finish up as a balm...
