WATCH: Jim On History Recap Season 1 – Preview Of F-16 Flight!
Jim on History's first season on YouTube is now history. The first three-month run was a big success, with one of the episodes attracting over 20,000 views. In total, the first season garnered nearly 5,000 new subscribers to the Jim Heath Channel, and tens of...
WATCH: Discussing Western Water Crisis With Obama A DOZEN Years Ago
Jim on History analyzes the ongoing water crisis out west. Jim Heath and Barack Obama briefly discussed western water concerns over a dozen years ago in South Carolina. The conversation happened before the start of a formal interview back in 2007. This week, water...
WATCH: Jim On History – Garth Brooks Hugs The Presidents!
At Joe Biden's inauguration, Garth Brooks performed a stirring rendition of the classic spiritual "Amazing Grace." Jim on History looks back to his performance, and more importantly, what happened afterwards. Brooks, in a sign of true bipartisanship, made sure to...
THE ELECTION JFK LOST
Exactly sixty years ago, at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, the final ballot for vice president was as dramatic as any convention has witnessed. Presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson stunned delegates by announcing he was leaving his choice of a running...
VANILLA ICE FOR PRESIDENT YO
If all else fails this year, some idealists from the 80's are looking closely at Vanilla Ice for President. On Facebook, some have started writing his platform: Vanilla Ice on why he's running: "If there was a problem, Yo, I’ll solve it." Vanilla Ice's drug policy:...
RYAN SAYS HE REALLY REALLY DOESN’T WANT TO BE NOMINEE
"Let me be clear: I do not want nor will I accept the nomination for our party." That's what Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters at a hastily called press conference late Tuesday. It sure sounded a lot like Civil War general William Sherman who once...
OOPS! TRUMP KIDS CAN’T VOTE FOR THEIR DAD
In the "how did this happen?!" category, conservative opponents of Donald Trump are having a field day pointing out that two of his children are ineligible to vote for him in the upcoming New York Republican presidential primary. Ivanka and Eric Trump are not...
HASTERT WAS SLEAZIEST OF ALL
There has been a lot of sleaze in Washington, DC the past few decades. Bill Clinton lying about his affair with an office intern. Newt Gingrich covering up his affair with an office staffer while condemning Clinton's "lack of morality." Bob Livingston, next in line...
CLINTON LEADS IN NY BY DOUBLE DIGITS
Hillary Clinton is having no trouble maintaining a big lead against Bernie Sanders in her adopted state of New York. A new NBC/WSJ poll has Clinton leading Sanders among likely New York Democrats by 14 points, 55 percent to 41 percent. Clinton leads Sanders 51...
PARTIES CHOOSE THEIR NOMINEE NOT VOTERS
"Political parties choose their nominees, not the voters." That's the bottom line according to Republican National Committeeman Curly Haugland. "The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination," she added. That is exactly correct....
THE POLITICIAN WHO BLEW THE OJ TRIAL
Gil Garcetti is the reason why justice was never fully served in the O.J. Simpson trial. I've thought that for two decades, and the recent miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson only reconfirmed my view. Garcetti was the District Attorney in Los Angeles when...
OBAMA SAYS HILLARY IS ON HER OWN WITH FBI
If his Justice Department wants to indict Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton over her private email server, President Obama says he won't stand in their way. “I can guarantee that,” said Obama during an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace. "I...
GIULIANI SAYS CRUZ UNELECTABLE IN NOVEMBER
First the 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney said that Donald Trump is unelectable in November. Now former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani says Ted Cruz is unelectable in November. "He can’t win. Ted Cruz is straight fastball down the middle of the plate for the...