Upton Sinclair's EPIC Campaign Of all the left-wing mass movements that year, Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California (EPIC) crusade proved most influential, and not just in helping to push the New Deal to the left. Back in the autumn of 1934, political analysts, financial columnists and White House aides for once agreed: Sinclair's victory in the primary marked the ...
The current crop of soap opera scandals that dominates the political conversation in this country is particularly annoying. We’ve got a member of the House of Representatives who accidentally posted suggestive pictures to the internet, and we have a former VP candidate (and potential future Presidential candidate) misrepresenting the story of Paul Revere’s legendary ride. Can we all just agree that they are both stupid assholes and move on? No, because that would leave a void in the ...
Adding info via Bell member Michael who has information about this song: The title is "Gagarin, What a Guy He Was!", music by Pakhmutova and N. Dobronravov and sung by Yuri Gulyaev. Thank you Michael for the background here! "Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!" ...
Updated 04-23-2011 at 11:49 PM by starry messenger (adding information)
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