by Heather Hastie | Apr 1, 2016 | US Politics, Women
Trump’s response to Chris Matthews in an MSNBC Town Hall is well known by now: https://youtu.be/i2mHh9TtEks Trump clearly didn’t have a response ready for this question and was thinking on his feet. His immediate instinct though was that women are doing...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 27, 2016 | Terrorism, US Politics
Tragedy brings out the best in the best people and the worst in the worst people. Therefore it is no surprise that the Islamist terrorist attacks in Brussels earlier this week have exposed some of the worst aspects of the attitudes of the two leading candidates to be...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 17, 2016 | US Politics
Short answer: No. In fact, they won’t even give him a hearing. President Obama has done his Constitutional duty and made a nomination to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. It is Judge Merrick Brian Garland, who...
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....
