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Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist?

Heather Hastie — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:31:24 +0000

With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other runners, and their supporters, are digging into his past to find any dirt they can to discredit him. The primary attack against him is the New York police’s use […]

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Where I’ve Been, Soleimani, and Solace

Heather Hastie — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 02:29:43 +0000

I thought you were all deserving of an explanation. I said, “I’m back,” and since then there’s been little further. As well as the other posts I previously mentioned, I’m now trying to write a Proper Post about the Iran situation, but it’s going slowly. So, I’m including a few initial thoughts here about the […]

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The Federalist Society (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:24:15 +0000

This is a short post about the Federalist Society (or rather, why I don’t agree with them) that I need to do so I can link to it when my very long post about abortion finally makes it onto the site. It was a part of that abortion post, but it took up too much […]

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Donald Trump, Spygate, and What Happens Next

Heather Hastie — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 06:10:35 +0000

I hope everyone reading this knows, or at least suspects, that President Trump’s talking point that the FBI put a spy in his campaign is a lie. There is no Spygate. Spygate is lie-gate (as someone else said, but I can’t remember who). Spygate is a conspiracy theory. It has no basis in fact. It […]

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Brexit Happened, But What Happens Next?

Heather Hastie — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 03:55:57 +0000

I thought the eminently sensible British would vote Bremain but I got it wrong. It’s a perennial problem with referenda – people vote on emotions, half of those voting are of less than average intelligence, and a majority aren’t fully informed on the issue. In my opinion, that is what has happened here. While there […]

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#SueMeSaudi

Heather Hastie — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:20:51 +0000

I’ve written about the appalling justice system in Saudi Arabia before in The Injustice of Sharia in Saudi Arabia and also specifically about the case of Raif Badawi, a blogger serving a sentence of ten years and 1,000 lashes simply for disagreeing with the type of governance that prevails in the country. More and more, […]

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Auē Tēnei Wiki: Paris, France

Heather Hastie — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 02:45:08 +0000

What else? France has experienced their 9/11. The Friday 13th myth originated in France, and DAESH has made it a reality. I was happily supermarket shopping on a beautiful sunny morning when the first of seven suicide bombers detonated his vest yesterday morning New Zealand time. I didn’t know what had happened until several hours […]

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Worry of the Week – 27 September 2015: Women in Iran

Heather Hastie — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 23:51:32 +0000

For my Worry of the Week, I’d like to draw your attention to a film that was brought to my attention by Dermot C., a commenter on the Why Evolution is True website. It’s called Women on the Front Line and was produced last year by Sheema Kalbasi, directed by Hossein Fazeli, and written by […]

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Worry of the Week – 20 September 2015: Russians in Syria

Heather Hastie — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:30:18 +0000

Just when you thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse in Syria, they have. Putin is going to speak at the United Nations in a few days, and political commentators such as the Guardian‘s Natalie Nougayrède are predicting that his speech will be a call for all nations to unite behind Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad […]

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Saint of the Week – 6 September 2015: Victoria, Australia, State Government

Heather Hastie — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 02:13:00 +0000

Unbelievable! Two weeks in a row I’m complimenting the Aussies! But credit where credit’s due and all that, and if I’m nice about them now, I might not get accused of racism if I abuse them during the upcoming Rugby World Cup. 🙂 But first an update. In “Saints and Sinners” on 16 August 2015, […]

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