Five Presidential Lies That Led Us To War
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries governments have used lies to get their people to enter into war. For some reason, it is often hard to get young men to give up the lives they know, drop everything and enter what is basically Hell. It is important for leaders to spin a story and build a strong esprit de corps amongst a nation's youth. While this is not always the case, it did happen quite a bit during the last century. Here are five Presidential Lies That Led Us To War! Read more...
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GOP Presidential Candidates Questioned On Citizenship
For the first three years of President Obama's time in office he has been dogged by conspiracy theorists that claimed he was not an American citizen. Supposedly, the Hawaiian-born POTUS lied about his place of birth and was actually born in Kenya. Everyone from conservative wacko, Orly Tate, to media whore, Donald Trump, tried to get the President to reveal two forms of ID so that he could prove his citizenship. I've heard people comment that this has never happened in American history and it was an outrage that he was questioned. The funny thing is, it's happened several times in the past - and all to Republicans! Here are five others who were questioned on their rights as "Natural Born Citizens". Read more...
5 Things About Jefferson You Didn’t Know
Thomas Jefferson was probably one of the best of our Founding Fathers. While we know that he was the third President of the United States, the main writer of the Declaration of Independence, and a man of the Enlightenment. However, there is a lot about Thomas Jefferson that we don't know about. He was very secretive in many ways. Here are five bits of trivia, you may not have known about this great man. Read more...
Five People Born on December 28
Today is December 28, 2009 and the 362nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 3 days left in the year 2009. According the Mayan calendar, there are 1088 days till the end of the current cycle. On this day in 1945, the United States officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. Here are five people that share a birthday on this day: Read more...
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My Best 5 U.S. Presidents and Baseball (Trivia)
- Benjamin Harrison: Threw out the first pitch at a professional ball game on June 6, 1892 in Washington, DC. The Washington Senators lost to the Boston Red Sox 4-7 in the 11th inning.
- William H. Taft: Really started the Presidential ties with Baseball. He attended 14 games while in office, including one on 4/19/1909 where the game was held up in the second inning because of the applause that President Taft received by showing up – even though he was late- for the game. Taft was also the first U.S. President to travel to baseball games outside of Washington, going to games in Cincinnati (his home town), Pittsburgh, Chicago, and St. Louis.
- Woodrow Wilson: Wilson was a huge fan of baseball and even played the game while he was in college. He was the first President of the United States to see a World Series game. Wilson didn’t believe in getting a free ride. Although, he had a free ticket to any game (including the World Series), he refused to use them and insisted on paying for his own tickets.
- Warren G. Harding: Possibly the worst U.S. President we ever had, but was an avid fan of the game of Baseball. Harding played the game, watched the game and even owned a minor league team in Marion, Ohio. He was the first U.S. President to see a shutout game at Yankee Stadium.
- Richard Nixon: Nixon was probably the most serious baseball fan of all U.S. Presidents. He is quoted as saying, “I never leave a game before the last pitch.” Nixon created his own “list” of all-stars in 1972. Many of them are found right here at www.myfivebest.com.
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