Newt Gingrich

research and raise awareness to the innumerable issues in the American penal system. Activists are not limited to sympathetic citizens but include politicians, philanthropic institutions, even former and current prisoners (Bryan, 2015). Politician Newt Gingrich is pushing the social media driven movement #cut50 which pushes the agenda of reducing prison population be half within the decade. Former and current prisoners experienced the horrors of isolation firsthand and are advancing the prison…

George Washington said to use measures to avoid the political problems that plagued political parties. Nonetheless less two parties became the two major parties in politics at the time. They were the Federalist Party founded in 1789 and led by American founding father Alexander Hamilton and the Democratic-Republican Party was founded in 1791 led by founding father and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Washington’s warning about political parties didn’t last very long and…

In Eritrea, only state news media are authorized to operate. They do so under the complete direction of an information minister: Journalists are conscripted into their work and enjoy no editorial freedom and are handed specific instructions on how to cover events. Moreover, journalists suspected of sending information outside the country are thrown into prison without charge or trial and are held for extended periods of time without access to a family or a lawyer. Countries such as Eritrea,…

Secularism in the Schools In 1962 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of school-sponsored prayer being unconstitutional, as in the case of Engel v. Vitale. This case involved state officials of the Broad of Education in the Union Free School District in New York who composed a prayer which was given to the principal to be read in each of the classrooms in the presence of the school teacher at the beginning of the school day. It read “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee…

events that lead to our current criminal justice system, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century and ending in modern times. Representatives from both sides of the issues presented were brought forth and their stories were told, even Newt Gingrich had progressive things to say about the reform needed in the criminal justice system. The point of the documentary was to educate people on the major issues involved in the current criminal justice system from the war on drugs to mandatory…

projected to lose more seats in the United States Congress, given the assumption that a president’s party loses a greater loss in a second midterm than a first midterm. The GOP, which at that time were the opposition party, led by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Presidential candidate in 2012 for the Republican nomination, lost their seats in that chamber. The Speaker of the House of Representatives resigned the speakership and his Congressional seat in Georgia’s sixth Congressional…

election in 2012 he spoke out against Super PACs. Obama was criticized because he had Super PACs that supported him. However, Obama 's campaigns were organized by average citizen and many average citizens donated to Obama 's campaign. "Obama, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are getting between 47 percent and 49 percent from small donors, according to OpenSecrets.org" (Super PACs send price of 'free ' speech). These candidates are examples of the people 's voice. Many citizens put…

The 1990s marked the finish not only of an era but also a millennium. The decade running up to the year 2000 saw a lot of adjustment and anticipation, with many important events that molded not only the 1990s but our lives since then. That change transpired in every way you can imagine – civically, technically, and socially. With about 5.5 billion people in the world, the year 1994 in America was a year marked by the chaotic case of O.J. Simpson, heartbreak over Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer’s, and…

under some kind of spell. I started to refer to Trump followers as Trump Zombies. This effect was not limited to “the uneducated people” — you know — the ones Donald Trump says he loves. Intelligent people like Chris Christie, Ben Carson, and Newt Gingrich, as well as people in the media, also seemed to be losing discernment, or at least appeared unaffected by things happening right under their noses. I had a title for them as well: Trump Stooges. Reasonable, intelligent people, critical of…

Term limits for Congress or not. In reading this paper you will be informed about the pros and cons of term limits. While reading you might notice it be divided up into four different sections. The first is the early history. The second is the pros and cons of term limits. The third is about the court case U.S Term Limits Inc. vs. Thornton. Finally, a live example of term limits gone wrong, California. Before reading all about term limits, there should be a little background to term…