by Heather Hastie | Apr 12, 2019 | US Politics
Over and over again the attitudes of the US Republican party shock me. I just don’t get how they can even propose some of their policies, let alone enact them. From the point of view of the majority of the First World, the Republican party is simply cruel. It...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 19, 2018 | Human Rights, South and Central America, US Politics, USA
The latest tactic of the Trump administration to stop illegal crossings of their southern border is horrific. It is child abuse, pure and simple. As most of you probably already know, the US is now separating all parents and children when they SUSPECT the parents...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East, Religion, US Politics
Donald Trump spent his election campaign making statements like this one from a 7 December 2015 press release. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 17, 2015 | Democracy, US Politics
On 3 August 2015 Fox News released a survey of the political climate in the United States. Conducted from 30 July to 2 August by Anderson Roberts Research (D) and Shaw and Company Research (R) it has a margin of error of +/- 3 percent. (I was immediately struck by the...
