US Politics Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/usa/us-politics/ My take on our world Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:41:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png US Politics Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/usa/us-politics/ 32 32 Life Without Trump https://www.heatherhastie.com/trump/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/trump/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:41:47 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=8059 I feel like a big weight is gone from my shoulders now that the White House is seeing Life Without Trump. However, he is still infecting the GOP like a fatal disease. Many are comparing him to cancer. I think that if the GOP don’t disassociate themselves from his influence, it will die a slow […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/trump/feed/ 15 Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist? https://www.heatherhastie.com/stop-and-frisk-racist/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/stop-and-frisk-racist/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:31:24 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7695 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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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/stop-and-frisk-racist/feed/ 28 Laurence Tribe vs. Alan Dershowitz https://www.heatherhastie.com/laurence-tribe-vs-alan-dershowitz/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/laurence-tribe-vs-alan-dershowitz/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:05:32 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7665 Laurence Tribe is someone I’ve respected and followed for some time. So, when I saw he’d given an opinion in the Washington Post: ‘Trump’s lawyers shouldn’t be allowed to use bogus legal arguments on impeachment‘. It’s mainly in relation to the argument Alan Dershowitz is making in opposition to President Trump’s impeachment. I’m obviously no […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/laurence-tribe-vs-alan-dershowitz/feed/ 25 Where I’ve Been, Soleimani, and Solace https://www.heatherhastie.com/soleimani-atacama-desert/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/soleimani-atacama-desert/#comments Thu, 09 Jan 2020 02:29:43 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7652 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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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/abortion-and-the-gop/feed/ 50 To Impeach or Not to Impeach: That is the Question https://www.heatherhastie.com/to-impeach-or-not-to-impeach-that-is-the-question/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/to-impeach-or-not-to-impeach-that-is-the-question/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:22:12 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7289 Following the public release of the Mueller Report, I spent some time writing the second post, in what I thought would be a series, on that topic. However, everything I was writing was written about elsewhere. It’s easy enough to find all the information if you look. The real question is what to do about […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/to-impeach-or-not-to-impeach-that-is-the-question/feed/ 30 US Politics of Single-Payer Healthcare and Abortion https://www.heatherhastie.com/us-politics-of-single-payer-healthcare-and-abortion/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/us-politics-of-single-payer-healthcare-and-abortion/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:06:49 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7264 As regular readers know, I’ve written multiple posts over the years about why I think the US needs a single-payer healthcare system. The most recent was less than two months ago: ‘The Benefits of a Single-Payer Healthcare System‘. As the only OECD country without such a system, the US is an outlier. In my opinion, […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-mueller-report/feed/ 52 The Benefits of a Single-Payer Healthcare System https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-benefits-of-a-single-payer-healthcare-system/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-benefits-of-a-single-payer-healthcare-system/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2019 01:23:23 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7037 On 29 January 2019 we saw the first CNN Town Hall for a candidate for the 2020 US presidential election. Kamala Harris, a Democratic senator from California, is one of the more impressive members of what promises to be a huge field. CNN is reporting the Town Hall had the highest ever viewership for a […]

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