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On April 7, 2015, Rand Paul announced, "I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.” This put him in the running for the 2016 presidential nomination. Rand Paul is a republican and the son of Ron Paul, Rand Paul started his political career in 2008 when he started to get involved in a group known as the Tea Party. He announced he would run for a seat in the Kentucky Senate in 2009, He won and became a senator for Kentucky. He has been a United

while providing necessary resources to GOP candidates. Aside from the groups that sprouted up following the emergence of the Tea Party, national advocacy organization FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity (AFP) rapidly did all they could to help the budding movement especially in helping conservatives to connect with them. FreedomWorks was especially interested in building activist connections in order to orchestrate similar events as the Tax Day rally. Apart from providing funding to the Tea Party

9). 115th Congress (2017-2018). https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1469/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22welfare+reform%22%5D%7D&r=1. Davidson, W. (2017). FreedomWorks’ Bill of the Month for April 2017: Welfare BRAC Act, H.R. 1469. Retrieved from FreedomWorks: http://www.freedomworks.org/content/freedomworks%E2%80%99-bill-month-april-2017-welfare-brac-act-hr-1469 Fischer, K. (2013). Presentation: Covenant, Sphere Sovereignty, and Social Justice. Liberty University. Fischer, Kahlib

Though the American Common Core has slightly improved national percents in Math and English, it has many adverse effects on our state rights, economy, teachers, and children. The fundamental goal of the Common Core is to get every school, teacher, and classroom in America to follow the same national standards. This system means teachers and parents have little power over what their children learn in the classroom; it is a federal intervention in state-led affairs. Another negative point about the

“Class, today we will work in our practice workbooks. Please complete drills nine and eleven.” One can almost hear the groans of exhausted students echo across the classroom as another day of drills and memorization passes. Unfortunately, endless drills, mountains of workbook pages, and dry, tedious lessons have become the norm in today’s classrooms across Mississippi. However, there is a bright light in the distance known as the Common Core State Standards. Common Core State Standards, which was

In the article, “Net neutrality hits a nerve, eliciting intense reactions”, Cecilia Kang discusses how the pending repeal of Net Neutrality by the FCC and Chairman, Ajit Pai, is adamantly contested by most of the Internet community and most companies, big or small. To develop her argument, Kang uses a wide variety of appeals from established and startup companies, statistics and evidence related to the reaction to the repeal, and demonstrations on how polarizing the issue is, and the repeal’s effect

Although most senators, representatives and school officials support common core state standards (CCSS), they have not received or researched the history of how CCSS introduced itself. Furthermore, they do not understand that local control is being taken away, which results in the eventual destruction of excellent, local schools, students, and future generations. Two private trade organizations located in Washington, D.C, wrote the CCSS at the request of Achieve, a company created by Bill and Melinda

University of Phoenix Material Critical Analysis Worksheet Read “Common Core” and “The Battle Against Common Core Standards.” Perform a critical analysis of each reading using critical thinking techniques from this week’s readings. Respond to the following based on your critical thinking analysis of the “Common Core” and “The Battle Against Common Core Standards” readings. 1) Define the term conclusion. Aside from being the obvious result or closing, a conclusion is also “a proposition concluded or inferred from the

The Tea Party, an uprising movement, with specific beliefs have made a major political breakthrough in this year due to strategic framing usages and resources. Their framing usages strongly conveys their social and economical perspective and ideology through an extremist and phenomenological approach. Their framing activities influences generalized belief, collective behavior, irrational behavior, experiential commensurability, and specific grievances among the supporters. The supporters are mainly

A recent poll has revealed that the majority of Americans are unfamiliar with civil asset forfeiture, a highly controversial tool which allows law enforcement officials to seize an individual’s private property – including cash, vehicles, and homes – all without conviction, or even charging the suspect with a crime. The Mackinac Center’s past work on the issue can be read here. On the HuffPost/YouGov survey, released on Aug. 28th this year – 72% of Americans answered “no” when asked whether or