Rick Santorum

What is a meme? One would think that the answer would be simple and easy, after all majority of people think of memes as simple things. They are images that show up regularly on their social media sites and most of the time the response they elicit is laughter. Memes make people laugh and that is their purpose, so surely something with a simple purpose wouldn’t have a complicated nature? Well that’s where Limor Shifman would have to disagree with you. She offers a novel definition of memes:…

both positives and negatives to the minimum wage. Many debate the existence as to whether or not the minimum wage should be raised and whether or not it should be lowered. Supporters of the raise, such as President Barrack Obama, Bill O’ Reilly, Rick Santorum and Phyllis Schafley, take into consideration the immediate payout of higher income, and identify this as the appropriate elucidation (Harding; Ivatury). The National Retail Federation, The Cato Institute, and Mark Wilson all publicly…

homeschooling movement has legal representation. All the same, the support for homeschooling is uncanny and made up of people of all backgrounds. Many political figures have voiced their support for the religious homeschooling movement, such as Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Representative Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado and former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett (“Home…

aren’t annointed, that holy water you soak in then has been poisoned.” -Author Adoption services should be the same across the board no matter the complexion of someone’s pigment, religion, race, even gender. “Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audk”{Pience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all...” .“Gay parents "tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual…

putting enough effort into learning what the values of the candidates actually are, which could differ from their own. The 2012 election showed religious affiliation benefitting a candidate as well. The pre-Vatican II Catholic former candidate, Rick Santorum, rose largely on the support of evangelicals (Gerson). Although he gained many votes because of his religion, he was not a final candidate and did not win the election. The role of religion also causes discrimination against the nonreligious…

The 2016-2017 presidential election is known as one of the most iconic elections in modern history. In the beginning of the election there were 17 candidates in the republican party and 8 in the Democratic party, and all candidates but two dropped out. The last candidates remaining were Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the election named after them was called “Crooked vs. Crazy”. This election, to most Americans, did not have the most honorable candidates to vote for, but it was a matter of…

Neccesity of) For women when married income goes up 50 percent and for men 25 percent. Married women are also at a substantially lower risk for domestic violence. Lastly single men are six times more likely to be incarcerated than a married man. Rick Santorum has given a plethora of good reasons why one should get married, however many benefits disappear if a couple gets divorced. Maybe people should focus more on not getting…

single-payer health care. He drowns out every other candidate, every other subject”. This have had a tremendous effect on other candidates, for example during the presidential debate almost all the time some presidential candidate such as Randy Paul, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, Jim Gilmore and other had struggled with the time giving for the debate, as they were not allowed to respond to the remarks Donald Trump gave during his speech. Due to this fact and falling low in the polls for the…

A grand jury report with testimony indicating that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually molested eight young boys over a minimum of fifteen years was made public on November 4, 2011. Penn State officials are said to have neglected to alert law enforcement when they became aware of some of these occurrences. The number of victims rose to ten on December 7, 2011. In 2012, Sandusky was found guilty. Jerry Sandusky was very significant to the Penn State community and had a…

O’Malley, Bernie Sanders, and last Jim Webb. On the Republican side, we have Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Donald Trump, and last Scott Walker. I chose very important issues and I feel like we need a president that are very serious about taking action. Although, I have multiple issues that bothers me; I would have to…