by Heather Hastie | Jun 14, 2016 | Terrorism, USA
CNN’s Anderson Cooper struggled through a list of the names of the forty-nine victims at the start of his show today. Each was accompanied by a short biography and often a photograph. That’s where the focus needs to be in the aftermath of this tragedy....
by Heather Hastie | Jun 13, 2016 | US Politics
Well no, of course not, but that’s just my opinion. Others think differently apparently. Last week Quillette published an article by philosopher Peter Boghossian (Portland State University) and James Lindsay (mathematician and author) called ‘The Article...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 8, 2016 | US Politics
The Democratic and Republican parties now both have presumptive nominees and the Libertarian party has confirmed that their nominee is former governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson (Johnson was also the Libertarian nominee in 2012). Despite having less than 40% name...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 8, 2016 | US Politics
I admire the way Bernie Sanders has conducted his campaign to be the Democratic nominee, and support may of his policies. However, it’s time for him to admit it’s over and to step down. He’s complaining that super-delegates are not fair. He’s...
by Heather Hastie | May 22, 2016 | US Politics
A new national poll came out from Fox News last week. Though it’s within the margin of error (+/- 4%), for the first time it shows Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton in a head to head match up 45% to 42%. It also shows, again for the first time, that Clinton...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 22, 2016 | US Politics
It’s been a while, but I’m back. The main problem hasn’t been me, but my computer. It’s been in the hospital most of the last two weeks, but a lovely young man called Benjamin has sorted it for me. He’s been very reasonable with his...
