by Heather Hastie | Oct 25, 2015 | US Politics, Winners and Worries
The success of so-called “outsider” candidates has been a feature of the GOP presidential nominee race. So far, Donald Trump has won almost every poll since he entered the race. That changed this week. Until now, it was possible to put the success of...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 25, 2015 | US Politics, Winners and Worries
I was just going to do this post about the hamster (below), but Hillary Clinton is such an obvious candidate for Winner of the Week this week, I couldn’t really ignore her. After a tough few months, it’s all looking pretty good for both her and the...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 18, 2015 | US Politics
My actual biggest worry this week is what’s going on between the Israelis and Palestinians and their supporters and proxies. However, I just don’t know where to start. I don’t even know how to finish this paragraph with a suitably wise comment about...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 1, 2015 | Religion, US Politics
The Daily Beast published a story on 29 September called GOP’s 2016 Festival of Hate: It’s Already the Most Racist Presidential Campaign Ever by Dean Obeidallah. He says, “It appears that the GOP has traded in its dog whistle for a bullhorn when it comes to...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 27, 2015 | US Politics, Winners and Worries
So far we’ve had two GOP primary debates, the first hosted by Fox News and the second by CNN. The outstanding performer in both was Carly Fiorina. Whatever you think of her positions on the issues, and I disagree with rather a lot of them, she has been clear,...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 18, 2015 | US Politics
The Under-Card George Pataki, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, and Lindsay Graham faced off. As far as debates go, this was a pretty good one. They all got a chance to speak and make their positions clear. If George Pataki was trying to get make it out of the second...
