by Jim Heath | Jun 3, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Headlines, History, Polls, Trump
President Trump has the highest disapproval rating of any president at this point in office, even worse than one-term president Jimmy Carter. Back during Carter’s presidency, there was a sense of national ‘malaise’ with a bad economy and American...
by Jim Heath | May 22, 2020 | coronavirus, Health, History
NBA Legend Patrick Ewing has been hospitalized after testing positive to COVID-19. The Basketball Hall of Famer and former New York Knicks center, 57, was admitted to a Washington, D.C. hospital Friday evening and is now in isolation. Ewing, who is currently the head...
by Jim Heath | May 19, 2020 | Headlines, History
Norma McCorvey, remembered as ‘Jane Roe’ in the famous Supreme Court case, died in February 2017, but in the final scenes of a new documentary, she reveals she still has something to say. In her “deathbed confession,” McCorvey shares that her...
by Jim Heath | May 19, 2020 | Headlines, History
Barack and Michelle Obama’s presidential and first lady portraits will not be unveiled and hung in the White House until Donald Trump is out of office. The long-held tradition of current presidents attending the unveiling ceremony of the portraits of their...
by Jim Heath | Jan 25, 2020 | Headlines, History
Barack Obama’s private assessment of Donald Trump: He’s a fascist. That is, at least, according to Tim Kaine, the Democratic senator from Virginia and a friend of the former president. In a video clip from October 2016, Kaine is seen relaying Obama’s comment to...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2019 | Congress, Constitution, Headlines, History, Impeachment, Trump
Whatever else history says about him, today Donald J. Trump will become the third U.S. president to be impeached. It represents an astonishing turnabout since Robert Mueller’s public testimony less than six months ago seemed to drain energy from impeachment efforts....
