Cruz on Education...(from Wikiapedia)
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas, and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as ‘valedictorian’ in 1988.
During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises..... The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program “at the age of 13”.
It was reported by BuzzFeed that in 1987 while Cruz was a senior in high school and at age 17, authorities found an unopened case of beer in his vehicle, resulting in them giving him a ticket. Cruz referred to the incident on his application for Texas Solicitor General, where he was required to list any prior convictions.
Cruz ‘graduated cum laude from Princeton University’ with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.........
While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s ‘Debate Panel’ and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship ‘and’ the 1992 North American Debating Championship.......
In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).
Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, “making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater” at the championship. Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
‘Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,”’.... draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison:... “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”...
.... Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote:..... “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended “Harvard Law School”, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree........... While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.....
....Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said,... “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”.... At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.
Political Positions:
Cruz is pro-life, with an exception only when a pregnancy endangers the mother’s life.
Cruz opposes same-sex marriage, stating that he instead supports marriage “between one man and one woman,” but believes that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left to each state to decide..... On February 10, 2015, Cruz re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act.
Cruz is a gun-rights supporter..... On March 25, 2013, an announcement was made by Cruz and U.S. Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee threatening that they would filibuster any legislation that would entail gun control, such as the Manchin-Toomey Amendment, which would require additional background checks on sales at gun shows..... On April 17, 2013, Cruz voted against the Manchin-Toomey Amendment. Republicans successfully filibustered the amendment by a vote of 54–46, as 60 votes were needed for cloture.
Cruz has raised concerns that the National Security Agency has not done effective surveillance of potential terrorists while intruding needlessly into the lives of ordinary Americans.
Cruz opposes net neutrality because he argues that the Internet economy has flourished in the United States simply because it has remained largely free from government regulation.... He believes regulating the Internet will stifle online innovation and create monopolies..... He has expressed support for stripping the Federal Communications Commission of its power under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to ensure net neutrality, and opposes reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934...... He opposes an internet sales tax, saying that doing so would hurt competition by creating additional costs for internet-based businesses.
He was an original co-sponsor of the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, Senate Bill 1 of the 114th Congress. And on January 29, 2015, he voted for its passage.... It passed the Senate 62-36, the goal of the bill was to approve the construction of the transnational pipeline.... Cruz wants Congress to approve the exportation of U.S. natural gas to World Trade Organization countries.
Cruz opposes the legalization of marijuana, but believes it should be decided at the state level.
Cruz is a strong critic of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which he usually refers to as “Obamacare”. ...He has sponsored legislation that would repeal the health care reform law and its amendments in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
He’s too qualified. Seriously, when has someone with these kind of credentials actually won.