Elizabeth Warren Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/elizabeth-warren/ My take on our world Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:31:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png Elizabeth Warren Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/elizabeth-warren/ 32 32 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 Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Inspire Confidence in the Future of US Education https://www.heatherhastie.com/betsy-devos-doesnt-inspire-confidence-future-us-education/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/betsy-devos-doesnt-inspire-confidence-future-us-education/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2017 03:27:48 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3500 A few weeks ago I wrote a post about Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary. I concluded K-12 education in the United States was going to get worse. (K = kindergarten; 12 = year 12.) DeVos’s confirmation hearing occurred this week, and I’m now even more concerned about the situation in that country […]

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