Ted Cruz

In Eileen Smith's post called "Shooting Blanks", Smith is pretty much calling Ted Cruz a liar. She goes by saying that he wants to "...defend the right to bear arms, especially for tiny little scared men who think they can only protect their tiny little scared selves by buying every assault weapon imaginable. Anytime. Anywhere. From anyone." which is very commical because some people are like this! They want to pull out a gun for every little bad thing that goes wrong, instead of maybe talking it out (or something civil like that).

The second thing she says is that Cruz said that Marco Rubio (a Democrat) only bashed him because of his "Hispanic" race and being a Republican. I don't all the way agree that Cubans (that's what Cruz says he is) aren't hispanic, because they do indeed follow a hispanic culture. However I do agree when she says that he's not REALLY Cuban because of his religious views (Southern Baptist). I don't know if there are really any Baptist hispanic people. Most of them, that I know anyway, are Catholic or some sort of Christian.

So no, I don't think that Ted Cruz should be going around and calling himself a "Hispanic Republican" based on the facts she put in this article.

All in all, I pretty much agree with what she's saying about him. It seems like he's not really watching what he says.

Liquor Stores Open on Sunday in Texas?

"Bills Would Let Liquor Stores Open on Sundays", written by Elena Schnieder in the Texas Tribune, is about the possibility of a bill getting passed in Texas for the selling of liquor on Sunday. Throughout the article she she states that if the liquor store are open on Sunday's, they could possibly generate millions of dollar. However, the workers state otherwise. They say that by opening on Sundays they won't make that much because of other costs of the stores. The article closes off by saying that they have tried to do this before and it has failed, so there is a strong possibility that the bill won't even get passed.

I don't believe that bill should be passed simply because of the workers. They should have at least a day off. Also, like the owners said, there probably wouldn't be any extra revenue due to the extra hours. You have to take into consideration the bills they have to pay for just that day. There's also the fact that some people go to church on Sunday's, would they be stopped from going? It's a good idea when just speaking about it, but when you really start to think about the details, it's not so great.