President Obama’s steadfast support for the “Ground Zero” mosque, which only a day later turned lukewarm, nationalized an issue that many New Yorkers, including myself, have become familiar with for months on end. What’s fascinating now is how all the big time players from opposite ends of the spectrum- headlined by Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin on the right, and NYC [...]
I’d like to talk about the arguments for and against same-sex marriage – the so-called “merits” of the case. The legal arguments surrounding Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down proposition 8 are complex and interesting. The political gambles made by Boies and Olson on the plaintiff’s side, and by Walker on the judge’s, are exciting. Nonetheless, the legal aspect [...]
Penn Political Review has joined with other college political publications to form the Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE), hoping to generate cross-campus dialogue on political issues. The first topic we will discuss is class-based affirmative action. This is the second entry; for the first one, see Sam Barr’s post at HPR. Sam suggests that conservatives who oppose race-based affirmative action [...]
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