U.S. presidential election 1976 - Democratic Party nomination.
Democratic candidates
Birch Bayh, U.S senator from Indiana
Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. senator from Texas
Jerry Brown, governor of California
Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia
Frank Church, U.S. senator from Idaho
Fred R. Harris, former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, former candidate for the 1972 nomination, and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Henry M. "Scoop" Jackso ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city and county has a total area of 600.7 km² (231.9 mi²). 120.9 km² (46.7 mi²) of it is land and 479.7 km² (185.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 79.86% water. The city proper is often reputed to be roughly a seven mile square, and in fact is only slightly smaller.
The geographical center of the city is on the east side of Grandview Avenue between Alvarado and Twenty-third Streets.
San Francisco is famous for its hills. A "hill" in San Francisco is an elevation tha ...
Populism - Classical populism.
The word populism is derived from the Latin word populus, which means people in English (in the sense of "I will govern for the people", not in the sense of "There are people visiting us today"). Therefore, populism espouses government by the people as a whole (that is to say, the masses). This is in contrast to elitism, aristocracy, or plutocracy, each of which is an ideology that espouse government by a small, privi ...
Conservative views and factions within the Democratic Party have a long history, and still exert an influence on the party today:
Conservative Democrat - 1800-1860: From Jefferson to Jackson to the Civil War.
The election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 marked the first electoral victory of the Democratic-Republican Party over the Federalist Party. Jefferson ran on a platform in support of small landholders and decentralized government, against the Federalist platform which supported a coalition of big business and big government ...
Native Americans inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area at least 10,000 years ago; the most recent inhabitants prior to European settlement were the Yelamu. By the middle of the 19th century, disease and warfare with European settlers had virtually wiped out the indigenous tribes.
The first European to reach the San Francisco Bay was the Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portolà,in 1770. The first Spanish mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, was established six years later. A small military fort was also established in what is now the ...
Jello Biafra - Early years and the Dead Kennedys.
Biafra was born in Boulder, Colorado, USA to parents Stanley and Virginia Boucher. Biafra developed an interest in international politics early on, which his parents encouraged him to learn more about. As a child, he would avidly watch the news. One of his earliest memories of his childhood is of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Biafra claims he has been a fan of rock music since first hearing it in 1965, when his parents accidentally tuned in to a rock radio st ...
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Mike McCurry
Bill Press
Joe Scarborough
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Peter Bart
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Deepak Chopra
Marc Cooper
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Harold Evans
U.S. presidential election 1980 - Campaign.
The 1980 election is considered by some to be a realigning election. Reagan ran a campaign of upbeat optimism, together with implications of a more militarily aggressive foreign policy. This contrasted with the "malaise"-ridden attitude of the late Carter administration and its apparent impotence in the face of the Iran hostage crisis. Towards the end of the campaign, as Carter's poll numbers continued to slip and Reagan's rose, Carter responded with more militaristic rhetoric and announced plans to bring back the military d ...
With his political successes, he was strongly viewed as a possible Democratic candidate for President in either 2000 or 2004. The California electricity crisis of 2001 and budget deficit of 2003 hurt his reputation, and any talk of Presidential candidacy completely evaporated.
His early administration focused on balancing the state budget and education reform. However energy problems soon came to dominate his agenda. As a result of a flawed bipartisan energy deregulation signed into law by the previous governor Pete Wilson, electric p ...
Besides the general and most widely-argued issue of which tax system is the fairest to both high and low income earners, there are several other arguments in favor or against a flat tax.
Flat tax - Arguments in favor.
The enactment of a flat tax system simplifies the tax code by only taxing income at its source. The U.S. tax code for example is currently over 9 million words long and contains many loopholes, deductions, and exemptions that - proponents of flat-tax claim - complicate and create inef ...
Besides the general and most widely-argued issue of which tax system is the fairest to both high and low income earners, there are several other arguments in favour or against a flat tax.
Flat tax - Arguments in favor.
The enactment of a flat tax system simplifies the tax code by only taxing income at its source. The U.S. tax code for example is currently over 9 million words long and contains many loopholes, deductions, and exemptions that - proponents of flat-tax claim - complicate and create ine ...
Timothy Leary - Early life.
Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts the son of an Irish American dentist, who abandoned the family when Timothy was a teenager. Leary studied briefly at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, but reacted badly to the strict training at the Jesuit institution. He also attended West Point but was forced to resign after an incident involving smuggling liquor during a school field exercise and an extended period of a schoolwide "silent treatment." There is evid ...
Governor of California - Age and longevity.
Between the births of John Bigler in 1807 and Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1947, future California Governors have been born in every decade except the 1880s.
Between the deaths of John McDougal in 1866 and Ronald Reagan in 2004, Governors have died in every decade except two: the 1910s and the 1980s.
Peter Burnett had the longest post-governorship, 44 years. He left office in 1851 and died in 1895.
Excluding Governors who died in office, Rob ...
U.S. presidential election 1992 - Republican Party nomination.
Despite an early challenge by conservative journalist Pat Buchanan, President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle easily won renomination by the Republican Party. However, the success of the conservative opposition forced Bush to move further to the right than in 1988, and to incorporate many socially conservative planks in the party platform. Bush allowed Buchanan to give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention, and his culture war speech alienated many moderates.
U.S. p ...
After the 2004 election, Mr. Cobb and the Libertarian nominee (Mr. Badnarik) sought a recount of the Ohio vote and announced that they would challenge the 2004 presidential voting results in Ohio, even though neither challenger was claiming to have won the election, and even though Mr. Cobb had not even been on the ballot in Ohio. The challengers explained that it was an important matter of principle, to make sure all the votes were counted, and counted accurately. They poi ...
During the earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, a 50-foot section of the upper deck of the eastern truss portion of the bridge collapsed onto the deck below, indirectly causing one death (actually due to misdirection of traffic by the California Highway Patrol). The bridge was closed for a month and one day as construction crews repaired the fallen section. It reopened on November 18th of that year.
Given the distance to the epicenter of the Loma Prieta (roughly 70 miles south of San Francisco), there was great surpris ...
U.S. presidential election 1992 - Republican Party nomination.
Despite an early challenge by conservative journalist Pat Buchanan, President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle easily won renomination by the Republican Party. However, the success of the conservative opposition forced Bush to move further to the right than in 1988, and to incorporate many socially conservative planks in the party platform. Bush allowed Buchanan to give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention, and his culture war speech alienated many moderates.
U.S. p ...
The CCC was an interdepartmental work and relief program that sent young, unemployed men from the cities to work on conservation projects in rural areas for $1 per day. The corps took part in many conservation projects, including prevention of soil erosion and the impounding of lakes. The CCC constructed many buildings and trails in state and national parks that are still used today. Other projects of the CCC included installation of telephone and power lines, construction of logging and fire roads, fence construction, tree-planting, and eve ...
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Donald Fowler, Jr.
Gary Hart
Ed Markey
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Russell Simmons
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Tina Brown
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Herbert W. Armstrong - Birth marriage and early career.
In 1892 Herbert Wright Armstrong was born in Des Moines, Iowa, to parents of the Quaker faith. He dropped out of high school circa 1908, beginning a career in business sales and advertising. In 1917 he married Loma Dillon who died in 1966. He married Ramona Martin in 1977. That marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Most of his early life until 1926 was devoted to selling advertising services and copywriting. During this time he adopted a copy and layout ...
His early broadcasting years included working at WTBU, Boston University's campus radio station. Following graduation in 1976, Stern moved to WRNW. During his time at WRNW, he lived in a monastery.
Following WRNW was WCCC in Hartford, then WWWW ("W4") in Detroit. With each station, he improved in ratings and skill, finally moving on to WWDC-FM.
In one archetypical example of his radio show, documented in his autobiographical movie Private Parts, he persuaded a female caller to have phone sex with him on the air. He made deep bu ...
