Watch out for Ron Paul

Is Obama having a George H.W. Bush moment? New polls indicate he could be oneterm and out

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New political polls indicate that a Republican has a good chance to take over the White House in 2012.

According to a new Gallup poll which puts Republican presidential candidates against President Barack Obama in head-to-head matchups, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney would beat Obama by two points in the 2012 presidential election if he won the Republican nomination, 48 percent to 46 percent.

This news all comes at the same time that Obama received his lowest approval rating since taking office.

Texas' very own Governor Good Hair Rick Perry tied Obama at 47 percent to 47 percent. The poll has a margin of error of four percent, meaning that an Obama-Romney or an Obama-Perry race is a statistical dead heat at the moment.

This news all comes at the same time that Obama received his lowest approval rating since taking office.

The Presidential Approval Index released Monday shows that 19 percent of voters strongly approve of how the president is doing his job while 45 percent of voters disapprove, leaving Obama with a minus 26 rating, according to Rasmussen Reports.

Also surprising in the Gallup poll, is that Rep. Ron Paul would lose the race by a mere two points, and Rep. Michele Bachmann — she of the crazy Newsweek cover — would lose by only four, with both within the poll's margin of error.

Though the polls are likely to change in the upcoming months, Paul’s gain is considered monumental. An Obama loss in 2012 would shockingly put him in the company of George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and William Taft as a one-term president.

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Thanks, Queen Bey

Pop icon Beyoncé donates $100,000 to University of Houston Law School

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Pop megastar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has donated $100,000 to the University of Houston Law Center Criminal Justice Clinic through her BeyGOOD Foundation. The gift will allow the clinic to hire fill-time faculty to head it, benefiting the students who study there.

“I am delighted that the BeyGOOD Foundation has made this very generous gift to the UH Law Center,” said Leonard Baynes, dean of the UH Law Center. “Not only will this funding help establish a full-time criminal justice clinic that provides pro bono legal services in our community, but it will also supercharge our already excellent criminal law and justice programming.”

The clinic is one of nine at UHLC. It helps students learn to navigate the criminal justice system, especially on behalf of clients that are underserved by skilled attorneys. People of color are affected disproportionately by a lack of good, ethical representation.

Beyoncé, the most decorated artist in Grammy history and easily the biggest musical star native to Houston, has a long history of advocating for criminal justice reform. She was a staunch supporter of the police reform following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, asking law enforcement to “stop killing us” in a web post. In 2020, she penned an open letter to the Kentucky attorney general asking for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor.

Through her BeyGOOD Foundation, established in 2013, Beyoncé has focused mostly on expanding the prospects of Black-owned business and offering education opportunities to students. Forwarding the cause of legal representation in Texas while also helping out marginalized communities compliments her other philanthropic work.

“At UH Law, we envision a legal profession where ‘everyone has the opportunity to prosper,’ as BeyGOOD envisions, and we will achieve this vision by providing access to strong and effective legal representation in criminal proceedings,” Baynes said. “And together, through this gift, the BeyGOOD Foundation and UHLC will shepherd the next generation of criminal justice attorneys in the city of Houston, the state of Texas and the nation.”