Conservative Democrat

It’s more often than not about people and or situations. You might think that someone will vote democrat just because they are a liberal or republican because they are conservative. Racial profiling is a method is which someone is stopped because of their skin color and suspicion that the individual is engaged in some sort of criminal activity. This is common with traffic stops and just…

According to The Working Poor: Invisible in America, written by former New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner David K. Shipler, the low-wage workers are “trapped at the edge of poverty”. “The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the back has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copyedits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade,” wrote Shipler. “This is the forgotten American. At the bottom of its working world, millions…

Ann Coulter is known by many Americans as a highly conservative woman that argues against illegal immigration, same-sex marriage, abortion, and drugs. She speaks out about highly controversial topics which most people find unpleasant. Because she is very bold when it comes to voicing out her opinions, she is often criticized for being a homophobic, racist, and sexist. In regards to trustworthiness, Ann Coulter is heavily biased towards her own opinion. This is especially true when she stated in…

My parents grew up in the only neighborhood in 1960s Phoenix zoned for Blacks and Mexicans. That neighborhood, South Phoenix, was also the only place in 517 square miles of city zoned for waste dumps, sewage treatment, and mercury-spewing cement plants. The federal government began trying to desegregate Phoenix in the 1970s, but my parents stayed south. They didn’t have much of a choice: they were priced out of anywhere else. Right out of high school, my dad began putting in long hours driving…

The Texas Constitution: Explaining the Foundations of the Lone Star State The current Texas Constitution is a document, which was accepted on February 15, 1876. It is the seventh written constitution of Texas. It contains sixteen articles and places many restrictions on government. Although it is the supreme law in the State, it also falls under Article IV, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Supremacy Clause. Much like the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution establishes…

Baron de Montesquieu, an Enlightenment thinker in the early 1700’s, created the idea of “Separation of Powers”, which stated each government is separated into three forms of government: executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Each branch creates a set of checks and balances, meaning every branch must check the other two branches. Checking each branch maintains equal power between branches, providing a way to counteract decisions which are either unjust or unconstitutional by law. If both…

Gregg Steinhafel Chairman, President and CEO of Target. Steinhafel was born in Milwaukee. He worked with his grandfather and Austrian immigrant in his furniture store. Steinhafel received his bachelor’s degree from Carroll University in 1977 and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg school of management in 1979. He joined Target as a buyer and moved up the chain of command. Stenhafel was named President in 1999, joined the board of director in 2007, titled CEO in 2008, and appointed…

With all of the limitations and restrictions currently found on public university campuses, students are being sheltered and living within a bubble of comfort, which will ultimately pop after graduation. By keeping college students from exposure to the world and what is going on from all different sides, they are kept from forming their own opinions and kept from learning how to handle opposition from others. Instead of debating and discussing with peers civilly and forming ideas to refute…

brings light to how policies Sanders’ advocates for may affect those who are in need of social equality. The poll presents the views of Black democrats and Hispanic democrats, revealing that 31% of Black Democrats don’t know enough about him to favor him, yet out of those that do know about Sanders and his policies, 76% percent favor him. As for Hispanic Democrats, 87% of those that have heard enough about Sanders to form an opinion are in favor of him (Newport). Though the percentages of people…

other hand, we have the candidates almost new to politics, Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump. Both Lincoln and Trump gained support through captivating speeches (albeit Trump’s more aggressive personality). While Lincoln’s views were not nearly as conservative as Trump’s, they both maintained less liberal views than their opponent, and won by a miniscule margin- in Trump’s case, not even winning the majority. The major difference between these two campaigns, were the prominence of the other…