Sunday, November 4, 2012
This week's Conversation Starter is about the question of whether Irene last year and Sandy this year have persuaded you to give the question of climate change and global warning another look.
Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist at the City University of New York. He appeared for a segment last week on CBS This Morning to discuss the question of global climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, which bashed parts of Manhattan, the Jersey Shore and other regions of the country hard on Monday and Tuesday. Are you a believer? What do you think about the question of whether mankind is having an effect on the global climate? Does the fact that a giant hurricane, Irene, and another one combined with two other weather systems, Sandy, pounded the northeast in just 14 months? Kaku's basic premise was this: Get used to so-called "100-year storms" and "100-year floods" happening more often. Because the trends that track energy (…
Friday, November 2, 2012
Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter will play a massive role in reelecting President Barack Obama or voting in a new President of the United States, in Mitt Romney. How is it affecting your voting habits?
Voters are just a few days away from hitting the polls, in hopes of voting in a new president or giving the current one another four-year term. Chances are, they've already influenced the outcome whether they meant to or not. According to a Pew Research Center study, 66 percent of social media users—or 39 percent of all American adults—have done at least one of eight civic or political activities with social media. Those activities include things such as posting one's thoughts about issues, posting links to political material, encouraging others to take political action, following elected officials on social media and liking or promoting political material others have posted. If you've logged onto your own Facebook page, you already know …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Washington University in St. Louis professors discuss politics, issues and theatrics of the 2012 presidential debates.
Washington University professors Steven Fazzari, David T. Konig and William J. Whitaker participate in a panel discussion on the U.S. presidential debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The video was recorded on Oct. 18, 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis.
Monday, October 22, 2012
The debate at Lynn University in Florida on Oct. 22, 2012, is behind us. Who do you think won? And what did our audience for our Wehrenberg debate watch parties think?
Updated with results of Patch surveys. Who won Monday night's debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney? It might have been Major League Baseball, as the politicians competed with Game 7 of the St. Louis Cardinals-San Francisco Giants pennant series. But among about 60 die-hard politics watchers who joined Patch.com for debate-watching parties at two local Wehrenberg theaters, viewers called the tete-a-tete a draw. Monday's debate was the last of three debates between the presidential candidates and the fourth in a series staged by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The vice presidential candidates faced off on Oct. 11. The debate came 15 days before voters go to the ballot box on Nov. 6. A narrowly pro-Romney crowd …
Join Patch and your neighbors for a FREE debate viewing party at Wehrenberg's Des Peres 14 Cine or St. Charles 18 Cine. It's the last one of the season, with trivia, giveaways and a post-debate Q&A.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Join Patch and your neighbors for a FREE debate viewing party at Wehrenberg's Des Peres 14 Cine or St. Charles 18 Cine. It's the last one of the season, with trivia, giveaways and a post-debate Q&A.
The last presidential debate of the year is upon us; President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney will face off a final time on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. Once again, you can join Patch and Wehrenberg Theatres for a vewing party. We'll be at two locations on Monday night in the St. Louis area: Wehrenberg's Des Peres 14 Cine or St. Charles 18 Cine theaters, where you can share your views on how the candidates' remarks addressed the issues you care about. Get to one of the two Wehrenberg locations at 7:30 p.m., a half-hour before the debates begin, for some fun presidential trivia and a chance to win prizes. Then watch the debates on the big screen. Admission to the debate is free; concession specials will be…
Friday, October 19, 2012
Join Patch and your neighbors for a FREE debate viewing party at Wehrenberg's Des Peres 14 Cine or St. Charles 18 Cine. It's the last one of the season, with trivia, giveaways and a post-debate Q&A.
The last presidential debate of the year is upon us and once again, you can join Patch and Wehrenberg Theatres for a vewing party. We'll be at two locations on Monday night in the St. Louis area: Wehrenberg's Des Peres 14 Cine or St. Charles 18 Cine theaters, where you can share your views on how the candidates' remarks addressed the issues you care about. Get to one of the two Wehrenberg locations at 7:30 p.m., a half-hour before the debates begin, for some fun presidential trivia and a chance to win prizes. Then watch the debates on the big screen. Admission to the debate is free; concession specials will be available. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are scheduled to debate between 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., and afterward, Patch editors will …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A Washington University professor discusses the welfare state and how it isn't being talked about in the 2012 presidential election.
Jason Q. Purnell, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, says the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in this country stand to lose the most in this campaign, and all the rhetoric directed at the middle class fails to take into account the very real struggles of our country's poor and the working class. It's one of the issues being overlooked this election year. Do you think President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney are tackling the welfare state? Tell us in the comments.
We asked our Red Arch and Blue Arch insiders about who won the Presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and to identify highlights to attract base support and swing voters.
After the majority of both sides agreed that Mitt Romney won the first Presidential debate with Barack Obama, a flash poll of Patch's political insiders in both parties in Missouri returned to their partisan corners following Tuesday's Town Hall-style gathering in Long Island. Patch conducted a flash poll starting late Tuesday night as part of the Red Arch/Blue Arch series of surveys taking the pulse of political thought leaders heading up to the November election. Responses came from 14 Republicans and 16 Democrats. Of Republicans, 9 felt Mitt Romney won by a slim margin, 1 said it was by a wide margin, 3 were neutral and 1 participant had no opinion. Barack Obama won by a wide margin according to 10 respondents, 5 felt it was a slim …
Visitors to Patch's debate viewing parties at Wehrenberg Theatres in St. Charles gave Obama the win while the Des Peres audience gave Romney a slight edge in the second presidential debate on Oct. 16, 2012.
More than 120 people from throughout the St. Louis and St. Charles county areas took advantage of a break in the Cardinals schedule to attend debate viewing parties at two local movie theaters for Wednesday's showdown between GOP candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. The consensus among viewers at the Wehrenberg St. Charles Stadium 18 Cine put Obama ahead, while watchers at Wehrenberg's Des Peres 14 Cine essentially called the matter a wash, with Romney edging out Obama but just as many declaring neither candidate victorious. In a written survey filled out after the debate, Obama's record was the center of attention for both sides. One Obama supporter said he won "because he was sincere, calm and followed through with what …
Roger Hughes
4:14 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Good News. The U.S. will make a huge transition from petroleum oil energy to natural gas by 2030. Its expected to make millions of jobs for workers in our country. This will cut our hydrocarbons by about 40%. more ›