For a frontrunner of an aggressively "pro-life" party, Rick Perry doesn't seem to have any qualms about being pro-death when it comes to only questionably guilty criminals on death row. According to this article, Perry's state has executed 234 inmates- an incredibly high number for modern times. The "pro-life", pro-death penalty stance of the Republican party in general mystifies me. I don't get it. Why is a fetus's "life" more important than a full-blown thinking, feeling adult's? The default answer for many would be that these adults are guilty of hideous crimes. However, time and time again, inmates put to death have been proven to be innocent after their executions. A man who says he has no trouble sleeping at night because of these deaths is not a man I want running our country.
How 9/11 Triggered America's Decline- now there's a headline. I experienced an undeniable sinking feeling while reading this article. Can anyone really deny that we are a country divided, immersed in more than one bloody war, spending money on arms instead of education? The article states that we've gone from victims to perpetrators, and in doing so isolated ourselves from the rest of the world. Still, this article was very clearly one-sided. There was no mention of the U.S.'s recent successful role in Libya, or the election of our first black president- not that these accomplishments erase the mistakes made in the last decade, but occurrences like these give me some small hope for the future.
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