by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2016 | US Politics, Women
8 March is International Women’s Day. Although women have made enormous strides towards equality just in my lifetime, there are still millions of women who are subjugated and even in the West, still plenty of anti-women laws. There are many countries I could...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2016 | Entertainment, US Politics
There’s a new cartoon on Pliny the InBetween’s Evolving Perspectives website that speaks to what I’ve been saying about Ted Cruz for some time so, of course (blame physics), I felt compelled to share it with you: And another one from earlier: Pliny...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 4, 2016 | US Politics
This was held in Detroit, Michigan this afternoon (8pm Thursday US time, 3pm Friday NZ time) and moderated by Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace. The remaining candidates in polling order are Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich....
by Heather Hastie | Mar 3, 2016 | US Politics
Super Tuesday, the biggest primary voting day on the calendar was this week, and the results have pretty much decided who the Democratic and Republican nominees for president will be: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. However, most of the others received enough...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 21, 2016 | US Politics
Donald Trump has been way ahead in the polls in South Carolina for some time, and in reality the battle there is for second place between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. That place belonged firmly to Cruz earlier this week, but exit polls from before the polls closed showed...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 21, 2016 | US Politics
The Democrats were caucusing in Nevada today (Saturday US time). Hillary Clinton won the state back in 2008, and it looks like she’s done it again. Before even half of the vote was counted, pundits were calling the election for Clinton. At that stage, the gap...
