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these issues of delaying a vote. There is the nuclear option, this option allows the majority party that controls the Senate to change the rules on voting and debating a topic and initiate cloture for a filibuster by a simple majority vote. In 2013 Democrats employed the nuclear option to change the rules for executive nominees to be confirmed by a majority vote because they controlled the Senate. Now, Republicans control the Senate and are returning the favor. To confirm Neil Gorsuch,…

Medical Marijuana: The Controversy Marijuana is often called morally and socially wrong, but can we possibly change the public views through medical use? Marijuana is often called a “gateway drug” and users are called “stoners” and “bums.” Time and new research has altered standard public outlook on this widely controversial topic. As time goes on, new research will come out and the younger generations will grow larger, so how will views shift in the future? In my essay, I plan to investigate…

out littler parties. In 1997, the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Party got nearly a similar share of votes—the Reform Party got short of what one for each penny more than the Progressive Conservative Party. Be that as it may, the Reform Party won 40 more seats. What's more, in a similar election, the Bloc Québécois, whose support was geologically amassed in Quebec, won twice the same number of seats as the New Democrats, notwithstanding accepting less…

provides essential healthcare people in the U.S. as well as over 1 million outside the country would have detrimental effects ("2013-2014 Annual Report."). As pointed out by democrats, “other health-care providers would be unable to absorb all of Planned Parenthood’s hundreds of thousands of patients” (DeBonis). Thus, the conservative Republican's presumptions that Planned Parenthood is all about abortions, and they therefore need to be defunded, are completely uneducated and ignorant of the…

the vast amount of innocent lives lost in recent shootings. Although there are some similarities between the Liberal and Conservative news articles, many things set them apart from one another, especially the presence of bias. The first article presents a Liberal perspective is an online article written by Alex Thomas for Intellihub. The second Article is an online Conservative perspective by Steve Fair written on Blogspot. Both articles researched discuss the notion that guns are held in…

Super PACs donations increase each year and especially during elections. In 2012 the Liberal Super PACs had raised 211.5 million that year. The Conservative Super PACs had raised 266.9 million in the same year. (Miller.) In 2012 the Liberal Super PACs amount had risen to 406.9 million and the Conservative Super PACs amount had risen to 860.8 in that same year. (Miller.) A minimum group of people in the U.S. can afford to contribute millions to super PACs. The larger the amount…

state that always votes democrat. Christie also has a pretty large scandal on his shoulders. Christie and his committee closed two lanes unexpectedly on the New Jersey side of the George Washington bridge. They did not inform any of the emergency responders. This action hindered a search for a missing child, and caused many traffic jams. Rumors emerged that the authority closed the bridge for political retribution. This was against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a democrat endorsed governor.…

driven all the moderates out or made it not politically viable. This was illustrated by the fact that two moderate Senators, Democrat Kent Conrad and Republican Olympia Snowe decided not to run for reelection because of partisan politics. The parties have moved to the extreme ends of the spectrum in recent years. Republicans have become more conservative, while democrats have become more liberal. The importance of moderates is in the fact that they are the compromisers and the negotiators. The…

The character traits of each brother could be seen as a negative reflection of the branches of government that corresponds with it for several reasons. There are three brothers in the story that Xenophilius Lovegood told and there are three branches of government and together all three of them are essentially unstoppable. The three brothers created a bridge going across a large river with their wand and halfway across, Death appeared saying they won a prize for outsmarting him considering people…

As a liberal-leaning democrat and daughter of an immigrant father, I should be the last to say that I think Donald Trump is an effective politician. But as much as it pains me to say it, he is. Like any “effective” politician, he responds to the polls before the people, to prominent media outlets before his own ideological views. Some may disagree; people will tell me that if anything, Trump has a way of voicing his opinions too freely. Those same people will say that his ability to “tell it…