Newt Gingrich

One was the passage of The Affordable Healthcare Act and the Contract to America. In the Contract to America, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich created a signed pact of specific policies to support and implement (Brewer 2012, 355). It had the characteristics of a clear, precise policy as defined by a Responsible Party Government. Next was to be the responsibility of the voters to accept…

The moral code, or lack of one, in House of Cards is completely the opposite of the one presented in The West Wing. The Underwoods do nothing that is not of their own self-interest. In order to achieve their goals, every option is on the table, including theft, murder, and an abundance of lies. This all options philosophy is surprising given Frank’s wife, Claire, job as an environmental activist. Even when seeking to accomplish virtuous things, such as Claire’s clean water project, immoral…

Hugh V. McLachlan tackles this question in his piece “Bodies, Rights, and Abortion” where he contends the idea of not owning one’s body simply because others say that you cannot. McLachlan mentions : “that talk of ownership of one’s person rather than of one’s body is absurd. A person cannot be distinguished here from what the person is being said to own,” hence displaying how unethical and enological it is for women in America to be expected to adhere to the laws that are not made to benefit…

The 2016 election surprised everyone with the success of Donald Trump and Mike Pence as Vice/President of the United States. This will result in a “full-blown assault on LGBTQ rights (Signorile)” that many younger LGBT community members have no experienced. Despite what Trump may say, he is no friend of the gay and lesbian community. His running mate, Mike Pence, is even worse. People have claimed that “the vice president… would really be the “CEO” - or, the president of the company - while…

The Correlation Between Society and our Ambition Here in the United States, we live in the land of the bare-minimum. We pull into work moments before we need to clock-in, we count down the minutes before we get to leave, and we put off any projects we have to do away from work (or school) until the last minute. Why are we so inclined to do as little work as possible? What is so important to do that we can’t spare a few minutes to put a bit more effort in? The answer isn’t simple, but it…

One of the most common misconceptions about Mexican immigration is that there is a positive correlation between increasing immigration and crime rate. When asked whether “immigration is causally related to more crime”, 73% of Americans sampled in the General Social Survey believed the statement to be at some level true (Martinez 2008:63). Criminality based stereotypes surrounding recent immigrants (based in xenophobic nationalism) have been used to increase discriminatory immigration policies,…

with its eventual success.” Fox News trademark slogan is “Fair and Balanced” but have also formed relationships with the Republican Party and its leaders. The network also involves many high profile Republican party members to commentate such as Newt Gingrich. Therefore, Fox News has come to be known as…

Islamophobia in the United States Monday morning one opens the newspaper and the headline reads: “Terrorist Attack in Certain City” the attackers name and his religion is stated clearly for all to know that in fact the terrorist was a Muslim. A few days later another article on the side reads “Three young adults murdered in North Carolina” the attackers religion is not stated neither is the religion of the three college students, who were in fact Muslim Americans. Now one might be thinking why…

The Communications Decency Act was written in 1995 and was Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It was led by Senator James Exon who was the primary proponent of the Act. He felt that the Internet was a danger to minors and that it should be censored; this was with specific importance on content that fell into the pornographic category. He is quoted as saying this, “Barbarian pornographers are at the gate and they are using the Internet to gain access to the youth of America.” (Cannon,…

The HIPAA Act which stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and acted in 1996. HIPAA laws created a new national standard in protecting people’s health information. Whenever some body visits nowadays the hospital has a little page that you sign letting them know that you acknowledge that the physician office has notify you about their compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability laws were put…