The importance of electing an experienced, knowledgeable, and progressive DA like Seth Williams has never been so clear to me as it was yesterday as I left prison for the last time. No, I was not myself incarcerated. I am taking Professor Marie Gottschalk’s PSCI 435, a class taught inside the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center [...]
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Social Security Going Broke?
April 16, 2009 – 9:25 am
This is a video that outlines the issue pretty effectively. Although it is around 6 years old, the facts and message are accurate.
For 73 years the Social Security System has been a safety net for the senior citizens in this country. They have paid throughout their lives but now their investment is being [...]
Passover at the White House
April 15, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Obama’s Passover seder represents an acknowledgment of his diverse constituency
The Newest Obama, Bo
April 14, 2009 – 11:51 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, the much anticipated promise of the campaign has finally been kept! On Election Night, Barack Obama told his two girls, Malia and Sasha, that they had been so good on the campaign trail that they had earned a new dog at the White House. Everybody wanted to give their opinion on what [...]
Progressive vs Orthodox Catholics
April 13, 2009 – 2:48 pm
Their has been recent backlash towards Notre Dame University resulting from the invitation of President Barack Obama to give the commencement speech and receive an Honorary Degree. Although this has been a recently established custom with presidents at Notre Dame, Obama’s stance on Abortion is one that is creating an uproar among many Orthodox Catholics.
This again shows [...]
Want to Help Technology?
April 13, 2009 – 2:48 pm
Have you been sitting around thinking, “man, I would really like to help with the Penn Dems website?” I thought so, everyone wants a piece of this. Well now you can. If you want to become a blogger for Penn Dems, with forum where your views will be read by hundreds of people, why not [...]
When Down Means Up
April 12, 2009 – 11:11 am
What’s up with Obama’s defense budget?
If you have been paying attention to news this week, the media was bumbling with GOP criticism of Obama’s defense budget “cuts.” Sure, it is was a political heuristic that Republicans are supposedly stronger on national security and defense issues, especially after 8 years of a GOP-controlled White House heavily [...]
Good News for Wharton Students
April 12, 2009 – 9:56 am
This story shows how much the economy has suffered, but think of it this way; every Wall successful Wall Street guy that gets canned for someone cheaper is one more job open to graduating Whartonites.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12wall.html?_r=1&hp
Keynes Foresaw the Recession…in 1936
April 11, 2009 – 10:48 pm
No, I’m not actually going to go on a rant about the merits of Keynesian economic policy (although I could). Rather, I wanted to tell you about a chapter of his 1936 book General Theory of Employment Interest and Money about the role of expectation in financial markets. I stumbled upon this chapter, “The [...]
Kal Penn takes position as White House Liason
April 11, 2009 – 5:27 pm
Fan’s of Fox’s T.V. show House were in for a shock last week Kal Penn’s character Lawrence Kutner was suddenly killed off the hit show. The move however was not for television’s sake. Tuesday, it was announced that Penn, a former Penn visiting professor and active Obama volunteer, would be taking on a new role, setting [...]
