by Heather Hastie | Oct 27, 2015 | Middle East, USA
I’ve just watch the first segment of today’s episode of Fox New’s The Five (5pm Monday EST, 10am Tuesday NZT). The segment was about the operation where US soldiers helped in the rescue of DAESH hostages, who, intelligence suggested, were about to be...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 26, 2015 | Religion
I wrote about the increased demand for exorcisms since the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy back in June – what many are calling the “Pope Francis Effect”. In June 2014, Pope Francis formally recognized the statutes of the...
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...