Rick Perry

uncontroversial. There’s Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, who had been denied a federal judgeship because of a racism controversy in the mid-1980s, Rex Tillerson, previous Exxon-Mobil CEO and current Secretary of State who has questionable ties to Russia, Rick Perry, potential Secretary of Energy who wanted to abolish the very department he will likely be running, Scott Pruitt, EPA critic and likely the future head of the EPA –the list goes on. However, these nominations and appointments have…

Planned Parenthood Planned parenthood seems to be a hot topic these days in the political sphere due to the fact that they are almost always associated with abortions. Even though they do provide abortions for women, they do a lot more than just that. Most people, like state legislatures, don’t realize that millions of women and people come to planned parenthood clinics every year for necessary check ups. Even though several state laws restrict the practices a clinic can do, planned parenthood…

Hayley Knox Texas’ Top 3 Leaders Asking for a 4% Budget Cut for 2018-2019. Do you agree on blanket cuts with or without exceptions or just raising taxes to cover state government needs? The debate over whether Texas should be cutting services, raising taxes, taking a 4% blanket cut across each agency or should there be exceptions to the 4% cut is a major ongoing discussion. You can justify all sides if you look deep enough and listen to all the politicians. Governor Greg Abbott, Lt.…

With more and more school shootings and public massacres happening everyday, the overall concern of gun control in the United States of America has become one of the most politicized topics over the past year. With elections coming up in the next year, there is no better time to address these current problems and ways to go about creating change for a better and safer society. It is clear there are two sides to this gun control issue and there needs to be a solution that will please both sides…

Since the rebirth of the death penalty in 1976, there has been a total of 1,419 executions. Currently, there are 271 inmates on death row, just in Texas alone. Capital offenses are usually what land an inmate to get the death penalty. An inmate has to go through a lenghty trial, then once sentenced, gets isolated and waits to be executed. For a prisoner to be on death row, he or she has to have committed a crime that is considered a capital crime or a capital offense. For example, Texas lists…

The death penalty has always been a very controversial and hotly debated topic. Killing someone is a very heinous act that cannot be tolerated, especially when premeditated and committed in the first degree. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but it is conspicuous that capital punishment is the only way to cope with these terrible acts. Capital punishment is additionally a way to reduce the amount of murders committed in the first degree. Premeditated murder cases are also very…

the country because of monetary reasons seems quite unjust. Although a President is supposed to be concerned with the budget of America, he should not be risking the lives of innocent children for the sake of it. In support of the President, Gov. Rick Perry told reporters that it would be more humane to send the children who are coming over to the United States immediately back to their home countries because it would deter others who are thinking of coming over from trying to. What he didn’t…

An example would be Texas, as Rick Perry, then the governor of Texas, wrote to the Justice Department stating that 40 percent of the correctional officers in male facilities in Texas were women, so that “cross-gender viewing” (like witnessing inmates in the shower, which contravenes the…

book begins with an explanation of the Texas Miracle, which was a series of “happy coincidences” that brought Texas many jobs and boosted its economy. After that, Grieder describes the Texas Model, which is how we run our state. As Governor Rick Perry put it, the Texas Model is a four-part “recipe,” low taxes, low regulation, tort reform, and “don’t spend all the money.” The next topics she discusses are the Texas revolution and Texas annexation. Texas gained independence from Mexico…

America by their families and it is also a bipartisan legislation introduced by Congress in 2001. This act allows undocumented citizens to gain of residency. Some states have passed their own version of this act including Texas. Thanks to Governor Rick Perry this act makes it possible for undocumented citizens to have the out of state tuition…