Dr. Balcerski yes. The congressional Temperance Society, in a way, is a reflection of a Larger Movement at this time in america, that is to say the temperance movement. It is almost a phenomenon to this Larger National movement. There was an Organization Called the american Temperance Society, which was founded in the 1820s with the goal to lessen the consumption of alcohol. They were not yet committed to full abstinence or tea totaling. So that the congressional Temperance Society founded in the next decade, the 1830s, was essentially an outgrowth of those early efforts of this First American Temperance Society. Host all of this in essence a precursor to the Prohibition Movement in the early 20th century. Dr. Balcerski yeah. It is a long history. One could think of the history of temperance as being a precursor to prohibition, but i like to think of them as stages in a series of a social movement that will lead to one of the greatest constitutional revolutions in American History, tha
It could be joe biden, it could be Elizabeth Warren, it could be Michael Bloomberg. Even Pete Buttigieg is in there. It is hard to tell who is behind Bernie Sanders. Sanders is clearly in the front spot. David one of the things we look at is not where they are now but where they are moving from and to. Are we getting any indications of momentum . Is Michael Bloomberg moving . Is Bernie Sanders moving . Wendy Bernie Sanders has run with the momentum he picked up from winning the New Hampshire primary and doing very well in iowa and he is drawing crowds in california and nevada, where they are having caucuses this saturday. He is drawing crowds in the tens of thousands. Not quite as many as he had when it was just him and hillary clinton, but far bigger crowds than any of the other Democratic Candidates. He is hammering away at the centrist in the race, mostly , who sandersberg is taking is the embodiment of everything sanders stands against. A little after the others. The rest are strug
Topic was Nuclear Weapons and we all read it was a big deal at the time. And to Nuclear Weapons from truman to trump and then went to Overland College and watergate changed him and then went on to graduate school at mit with nuclear strategy. And the policy advisor for the house of representatives on the left and wrote he wrote his widely acclaimed book wizards of armageddon. Listed with the boston globe for 20 years and by the end of 24 2002 we started to write stories he wrote for previous books and im very excited to have fred kaplan in his book the bomb please join me to welcome him. [applause] the wizards of armageddon the end of Nuclear Deterrence i did they get right anymore about nuclear war the cold war was over and nobody thought much about Nuclear Weapons until a couple years ago. And so might not have thought of it at all. But on august 8th the President Trump said that if north korea keeps making threatening noises and launching the sole test like it has never seen before.
Makeshift camera from home when i had to broadcast from home because i was in Covid Quarantine back in november. Because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. The roads are not fit for manor beast nor Cable News Hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higglety piggelty. Ill be back in the studio tomorrow night. January 2009, barack obama was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the Great Depression when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And o
Quarantine back in november. Because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. The roads are not fit for manor beast nor Cable News Hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higgledypiggledy. Ill be back in the studio tomorrow night. January 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States with joe biden as his Vice President , in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. The Great Recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying Wall Street Collapse. The economy had been Hemorrhaging Jobs for months at a rate not seen since the Great Depression when President Obama was inaugurated. Unemployment was headed for 10 . The Wall Street Collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. People were hurting. People were very scared. And one of the reasons americans had just elected obama and biden by a nearly 10 mill