The Political Podium

Quote of the Week

Kyle Larson — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:12:48 +0000

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which TIME included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the period 1923–2006).

Wikipedia

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

Veteran’s Day

Kyle Larson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:46:21 +0000

The staff of The Political Podium wish to express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to all veterans of the United States Armed Forces – past and present – this Veteran’s Day. Thank you for your service, your sacrifice and your dedication.

Welcome!

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:48:47 +0000

Welcome to The Political Podium! After several months of development and testing it is our hope to be populating the website with authors in the very near future – a few weeks, at most. The Political Podium – or, The Podium, for short – is designed to be a meeting place for college students to exposit, debate, rebuttal and discuss American politics. It is our hope to foster a community of passionate authors who put forth well-written, thoughtful and insightful pieces on topics ranging from court cases, elections, laws, policy, politicians, proposed bills and war to political philosophy, practice, theory and history.

The Podium is, in and of itself, a non-partisan entity. We encourage Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, libertarians and progressives alike to express their thoughts, opinions and policies. While we accept individuals from across the political spectrum, we seek to encourage intelligent debate – unjustifiable libel or rhetoric will be discouraged.

Please contact us if you are interested in becoming an author.

Liberal Test Post

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:41:34 +0000

Please excuse this post, as we are testing new functionality with the website.

Test link: Google

Thank you.

Conservative Test Post

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:37:23 +0000

Please excuse this post, as we are testing new functionality with the website.

Test link: Google

Thank you.

Update

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:38:38 +0000

Major design of the site is now complete. We are still tweaking individual settings to allow for optimization across a variety of web browsers and monitor resolutions. As of now, a minimum screen resolution of 1280x1024 is recommended for ideal viewing.

Currently, we are planning for an early September launch. We will be reaching out to:

Chapters of College Republicans and College Democrats at the Top 20 Academic Universities (as ranked annually by U.S. News and World Report)
College Republicans at the Top 20 ‘Most Conservative Students’ Colleges (as ranked by The Princeton Review)
College Democrats at the Top 20 ‘Most Liberal Students’ Colleges (as ranked by The Princeton Review).

In the coming weeks we plan on acquiring many politically active college students eager for their voices to be heard on a variety of issues, some of which currently line the top of this page. As we grow and expand, or as issues present themselves, we will certainly evolve to include those topics as well.

We currently operate three Twitter accounts.

@PoliticalPodium tweets updates posted to the site by authors including articles, polls and high-priority news items.
@RightRepublic tweets conservative news every hour from a variety of sources across the web including POLITICO, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, and memeorandum to name a few, as well as non-partisan sources such as Reuters and Gallup.
@LeftLiberty tweets liberal news every hour from a variety of sources across the web including The Huffington Post, Daily KOS, MSNBC, Center for American Progress and The New Republic to name a few, as well as non-partisan sources such as Reuters and Gallup.

Our two news sources, @RightRepublic and LeftLiberty are built-in to our website, accessible from the NEWS tabs alongside either side of the page. All three Twitter accounts, as well as our Facebook fan page and RSS news feed are accessible at the bottom of the website, in the footer. We hope you will follow us on Twitter and become our fan on Facebook!

Stay tuned for our launch – we’ll be announcing the date soon!

Under Construction

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:01:07 +0000

Hello, and welcome to the Political Podium! Our website is currently under construction and we expect to be fully operational by the end of the month of August. It is our goal to acquire collegiate authors from universities around the country to write educated, intelligent and non-partisan charged articles relating to the various domestic and foreign issues that face our country; including both esoteric erudite political theory and relevant current political events. Debate, discussion and rebuttal are strongly encouraged.

If you are interested in becoming an author at the Political Podium, for either the Left or the Right, and having your work syndicated across the web, please contact us at admin@thepoliticalpodium.com.

For now, please feel free to follow us on Twitter. @PoliticalPodium will feature the articles written here at the website and our two news syndication feeds @RightRepublic and @LeftLiberty offer current news from a variety of major news services and organizations relevant to their particular political polarity.