by Heather Hastie | Jan 30, 2016 | US Politics
Note: I had a two hour power cut about half-way through this debate, and I won’t have time to finish this tomorrow morning, so this report only covers the first hour of the debate. Main Debate (See here for my take on the Undercard Debate.) The main debate was...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 15, 2016 | US Politics
The Undercard Debate (6pm ET, Noon Friday NZT) Held in North Charleston, South Carolina, this debate was moderated by Fox New Business anchors Trish Regan and Sandra Smith. It was supposed to feature Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum. Then...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 18, 2015 | US Politics
The Under-Card George Pataki, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, and Lindsay Graham faced off. As far as debates go, this was a pretty good one. They all got a chance to speak and make their positions clear. If George Pataki was trying to get make it out of the second...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 16, 2015 | US Politics
We haven’t had a Democratic Party debate yet, but tomorrow sees the second Republican Party one. As in the first debate, the field has had to be split into two because there are so many contenders. One candidate, former governor of Texas Rick Perry, pulled out...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 8, 2015 | Atheism, Religion
Last Friday (4 September) regular commenter on Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True website Ben Goren, wrote a guest piece: The One Question a Christian Can’t Answer. It was about the big problem with Christian belief: why God doesn’t intervene to...