Thomas Friedman penned an Op-Ed in today’s New York Time’s Week in Review that opens up the idea of pending political instability within the United States. This perceived instability within the United States is fairly new and borne out of the hyper-partisanship seen in Washington today. This notion, coupled with recent reports that China has reprimanded, rather harshly, U.S. arms [...]
Blogger’s note: A few days ago I found myself writing this petit blurb. Perhaps the view from Rodin’s rooftop lounge proved inspiring, but I have a feeling it was the projection of the SOTU from my headphones. Most of it is existential backwash — replace with another compound word that begins with a ‘b’ — but I suppose it makes [...]
Julie While watching sporadic parts of Obama’s State of the Union, I noticed one glaring problem. It was not the President’s speech, or his way of speaking. It was not the attire of anyone in the building, actually what I noticed may to some be a little innocuous. I noticed that most times the President said something worthy of applause [...]
…did not talk about risk fallacy. Instead he presented a discussion on the need of cultural conversations through the concept of drinking and the form it takes in different cultures that have these cultural conversations. Malcolm Gladwell, introduced by Christina Bicchieri, Director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, is the 10th annual speaker for the Goldstone Forum, presented annually [...]
This is a cap of the email that philly.com sent me this morning. With regard to the “familiar sequence” – I haven’t had time to watch the SOTU or read a transcript, but when I do it had better be one hell of an oratorical performance. Like, really, people. OK, so when I went and checked the actual article, it [...]
Julie Toner While looking at news not only in the U.S. but across the globe, I came upon a very controversial story from BBC called “Should the U.K. ban the Muslim Face Veil” by Vanessa Barford. Though the article focuses on some of the policies enacted in France and the United Kingdom, I was more interested in the arguments for [...]
Under the Button helpfully linked to this Glenn Beck segment from last night, and singled out the offending phrase so I didn’t have to watch it. They also reminded us that he went to Yale, for all of one class (which may explain his antipathy to Penn). But Beck’s phrasing seemed a little odd, so I decided to at least [...]
Y’all may or may not have heard, or read in the DP this morning, but Joe Sestak had a town hall meeting in Houston Hall last night. I’ve gotten a couple eyebrow-raises today when mentioning it, so for those who don’t know Joe Sestak is a Democrat running against Arlen Specter for the Pennsylvania Senate. PPR wrote up Specter’s event [...]
Ed Morrissey on the Hot Air blog reported today that President Obama has the highest discrepancy between Republican and Democratic approval, ever. The mark, which indicates political polarization between the two major parties, stands at 65%- an 88% approval amongst Democrats for Obama, while only a 23% thumbs up from Republicans. This bests the 52% difference that Clinton posted after [...]
One of my least favorite columnists, Bob Herbert of the New York Times, wrote a column in todays paper that qualifies as an undeniable gem. Herbert, a staunch Obama supporter and self described liberal, took to attacking the Democratic party in today’s piece, criticizing Obama, the administration and all liberals in between. His main critique, the continued incompetency of the [...]
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