Tag: history
Know Your President: Week Thirty-Two
Party: Republican Fact One: Tax cuts! This president loved cutting taxes. He dropped the marginal tax rate from 70%…
2021 Fantasy Baseball Season Wrap Up
Just a reminder…I was the champion this year! Yeah, suck it everyone else! The fun thing to…
My 9/11 Story
I am totally stealing this from Sean (even the title). I highly recommend reading his version. Mine…
Know Your President: Week Thirty-One
Party: Democratic-Republican Fact One: This president continued major improvements to infrastructure, particularly in the Ohio area. These improvements to…
Know Your President: Week Thirty
Party: Republican Fact One: This president ordered the withdrawal of troops from a foreign country that we had been…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Nine
Party: Democratic-Republican Fact One: This president put the United States in control of the western hemisphere by issuing a…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Seven
Party: Independent Fact One: This president remained neutral during a war in France because he felt that the country…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Six
Party: Republican Fact One: Despite being for a free enterprise, this president refused to cut taxes because he was…
Summer Olympics: The Sports
The Tokyo Olympics are kicking off and that means we get to watch all sorts of interesting…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Five
Party: Republican Fact One: This president believed in pluralism (or the idea that no group should be banned in…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Four
Party: Republican Fact One: Deported many illegal immigrants back to Mexico. The only problem was that about a…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Three
Party: Republican Fact One: This president appointed the first African-American diplomat: Ebenezer Bassett to Haiti. Fact Two: Created the Department…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-Two
Party: Republican Fact One: This president signed a trade agreement with Canada & Mexico. It helped eliminate most tariffs…
Know Your President: Week Twenty-One
Party: Democrat Fact One: The Indian Removal Act. This president pushed Congress to pass this act and signed…
Know Your President: Week Twenty
Party: Democrat Fact One: This president passed the Social Security Act with goal of creating a pension for workers…
Know Your President: Week Nineteen
Party: Whig Fact One: Third shortest presidency. Died after being in office for 492 days. Fact Two: The last president…
Know Your President: Week Eighteen
Party: Republican Fact One: Did not visit regions of the United States devastated by a Mississippi River flood, which…
Know Your President: Week Seventeen
Party: Democrat Fact One: Expanded the United States by completing the annexation of Texas and threatening the British over…
Top 50: Favorite TV Shows (50-41)
You know the setup. Time to dive right into the list… 50. Home ImprovementI loved this show when…
Know Your President: Week Sixteen
Party: Democratic Fact One: This president allowed over 400,00 refugees to settle in America. Fact Two: The United States…