TheJerk
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:39:21 PM new
I have a picture of Al Gore next to a space ship waving to the crowd. It says he's at Lockheed Martin, the national government has a contract for $1 billion dollars for spacecraft development.
I want to know where "Radio Ron" of Berkeley California is.
Other captions from my history textbook.
Washington Post reporters Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein played an important role in uncovering the Watergate conspiracy, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
The middle name is Milhouse.
Nixon got us into China.
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:41:19 PM new
And there is a picture of a guy sitting in the studio at the EIB network across from Rush Limbaugh.
The caption reads Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is the most popular figure in the conservative media; millions of Americans listen to his program.
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:43:02 PM new
"Idological groups closely related to and overlapping public-interest groups are ideological groups, organized in support of a particular political or philosophical perspective."
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TheJerk
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:45:10 PM new
Today, so-called conservatives, as represented by Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, are in principle opposed to government intervention in the economy.
Bob Dole for Viagara.
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:50:50 PM new
CAUSE
1954 Brown V. Board of Education
1955 Brown II Implementation of Brown I
1956 Federal courts order school integration, expecially one ordering Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, with GOvernor Wallace officially protesting.
1957 Civil Rights Act creating Civil Rights Commission; President Eisenhower sends paratroops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce integration of Central High School.
1960 First substative Civil Rights Act, primarily voting rights.
1961 Interstate Commerce Commission orders desegregation on all buses, trains and in terminals.
1961 JFK favors executive action over civil rights legislation.
1963 JFK shifts, supports strong civil rights legislation
1964 Congress passes historic Civil Rights Act covering voting, employment, public accomodations, education.
1965 Voting Rights act
1966 War on Poverty in Full Swing.
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:54:19 PM new
EFFECT
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed, with Martin Luther King, JR., as president.
1960 Student Nonviolent coordinating committee formed to organize protests, sit-ins, freedom rides.
1963 Nonviolent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, lead to King's arrest and his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
1965 King announces drive to register 3 million blacks in the South.
Movement dissipates: part toward litigation, part toward Community Action Programs, part toward war protest, part toward more militant "Black Power" actions.
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TheJerk
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:57:38 PM new
The City Sun
August 7-13, 1996 Vol. 12, NO. 30 75 cents.
"The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Punished."
See Page 4, Slick Willie's Welfare Surprise.
Ronald Reagan, and his fabled welfare queen who drives from town to town in her Lincoln collecting the government checks.
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posted on January 21, 2003 01:59:26 PM new
Harry Blackmun, author of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe Versus Wade.
An old white guy.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:00:58 PM new
Outside the Los Angeles federal courthouse, women suffering the effects of defective silicone breast implants protested Dow Chemical's failure to pay the settlement of a class action suit. Federal courts have been the site of numerous class action suits in recent decades.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:03:10 PM new
African Americans lined up to join the NAACP during a membership drive in the 1940's.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:04:10 PM new
During the Depression, the WPA program put unemployed people to work on a wide range of public projects, from construction to the arts.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:05:26 PM new
President Clinton presents a pen to Jeanne White after signing the Ryan White Reauthorization Act in 1996. Named after White's young son, who died of AIDS, the act provided federal funds for AIDS research.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:06:59 PM new
A subscription to Modern Maturity is one of the selective benefits of membership in the AARP.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:09:19 PM new
The political power of a group as large and well organized as the AARP is tremendous. AARP members can be counted on to protest whenever programs benefiting the elderly are threatened.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:10:29 PM new
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security bill of 1935, one of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of the New Deal.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:11:49 PM new
North American Free Trade Agreement
The Federalist Papers
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:14:54 PM new
The Media
Here again, myth may outweigh truth about media influence in foreign policy. The most important element of the policy influence of the media is the speed and scale with which the media can spread political communications. In that factor alone, the media's influence is growing-more news reaches more people faster, and people's reaction times are therefore shorter. When we combine this ability to communicate faster with the "feedback" medium of public opinion polling, it becomes clear how the media have become so influential-they enable the American people to reach the president and the other official makers of foreign policy.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:16:41 PM new
With the exception of a few leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, who were eager to take sides with the French against all others, Washington was probably expressing sentiments shared by most Americans.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:19:06 PM new
The national purpose or national interest of the nation-state is said to be the maintenance of its SOVEREIGNTY.
Sovereignty can be defined as respect by other nations for the claim by a government that it has conquered its territory and is the sole authority over its population.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:22:40 PM new
Obviously, no nation-state is completely sovereign. In 1973, even the most powerful nation-states were brutally reminded of the fragility of their sovereignty when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) adopted a common foreign policy to control the price of oil on the world market, and the price of oil quadrupled. The fragility of sovereignty was also shown when Iraq occupied Kuwait in 1990 and then had its own sovereignty violated by a large UN military force.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:24:10 PM new
1996 Republican National Convention. Although the Republican Party showcased its diversity at its 1996 convention, on average, delegates to the convention tended to be wealthy white men.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:26:01 PM new
From colonial crusades agains the harmful effects of demon rum to the successful effort to raise the drinking age nationwide from 18-21 in the late 1980s. the crusade against alcohol has been one of America's most enduring social and moral crusades.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:28:27 PM new
The terrible social consequences of excessive alcohol consumption have been and continue to be widely and deeply felt throughout American society. The persistence of the temperance movement is epitomized by America's third oldest (and oldest third) political party, the Prohibition Party.
The party can be traced back to several separate state parties in Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania that formed in the 1850s.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:30:27 PM new
President Clinton and Vice President Gore promised that their "reinventing government" plan would make the bureaucracy more efficient and save the taxpayers over $100 billion, as well as reduce the reams of federal rules and regulations shown behind them here.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:32:30 PM new
National Performance Review one of the most important administrative reform efforts of the twentieth century. In September 1993, he launched the NPR based on a set of 384 proposals drafted by a panel headed by Vice President Al Gore.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:33:55 PM new
In recent years, the parties have been less active in registering voters and encouraging them to vote. One exception has been Jesse Jackson's efforts to register African American voters for the Democratic Party.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:35:28 PM new
The Farmer's Almanac.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Political cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:37:45 PM new
The quiet upstate New York town of Seneca Falls played host to what would later come to be known as the starting point of the modern women's movement. Convened in July, 1848, and organized by activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton (who lived in Seneca Falls) adn Lucretia Mott, the Seneca Falls Convention drew three hundred delegates to discuss and formulate plans to advance the political and social rights of women.
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:40:50 PM new
Eminent domain 1897
Freedom of speech 1925
Freedom of press 1931
Freedom of assembly 1939
Freedom from unnecessary search and seizure
Freedom from warrantless search and seizure
Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment
Right to counsel in any criminal trial
Right against self-incrimination and forced confessions
Right to privacy
Right to counsel and to remain silent
Right against double jeopardy
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posted on January 21, 2003 02:43:06 PM new
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy R.R. v. Chicago
Gitlow v. New York
Near v. Minnesota
Hague v. CIO
Wolf v. Colarado
Mapp v. Ohio
Robinson v. California
Gideon v. Wainwright
Mallory v. Hogan
Escobedo v. Illinois
Griswold v. Connecticut
Miranda v. Arizona
Benton v. Maryland
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