Ryan S. Walters
@ryanswalters73
Historian. Author. Heritage American and descendant of Jamestown. Politically a Jeffersonian. And a proud, courageous defender of Warren Harding!!
Harding was a better president than you think!! ryanswalters.net/2022/03/17/8-m…
“Actually, the war of 1861 was not a civil war. A civil war is a conflict between two or more factions trying to take over a government. In 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was no more interested in taking over Washington than George Washington was interested in taking…
“The problems that led to the Civil War are the same problems today—big, intrusive government. The reason we don’t face the specter of another Civil War is because today’s Americans don’t have yesteryear’s spirit of liberty and constitutional respect, and political statesmanship…
“She would have done what Lincoln did.” So she would wage illegal war on part of the country, kill hundreds of thousands, jail political opponents without trial …
This Jeff Daniels clip is even more bonkers than all the headlines going around. “I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice. I don’t care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did. Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of…
“By destroying the states’ right to secession, Abraham Lincoln opened the door to the kind of unconstrained, despotic, arrogant government we have today, something the framers of the Constitution could not have possibly imagined.” - Walter Williams
“Lincoln’s intentions, as well as that of many northern politicians, were summarized by Stephen Douglas during the presidential debates. Douglas accused Lincoln of wanting to ‘impose on the nation a uniformity of local laws and institutions and a moral homogeneity dictated by the…
“By removing tax roadblocks to new jobs and new growth, the enactment of [the tax cut] next year will eventually more than make up in new revenue all that it will initially cost.” - JFK, August 13, 1962
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“Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. And these new jobs and new salaries can create other jobs and other salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding American economy.” - JFK, August 13, 1962
“This administration intends to cut taxes in order to build the fundamental strength of our economy, to remove a serious barrier to long-term growth, to increase incentives by routing out inequities and complexities and to prevent the even greater budget deficit that a lagging…
“The single most important fiscal weapon available to strengthen the national economy is the federal tax policy. The right kind of tax cut at the right time is the most effective measure that this Government could take to spur our economy forward. For the facts of the matter are…
Martin Van Buren: Good or Bad? Overrated or Underrated? Van Buren (1837-1841) had the misfortune of having to follow a giant in Andrew Jackson and also the fact that the Panic of 1837 hit the country in his first year in office. This panic, or economic depression, was the worst…
How about Chester A. Arthur? Certainly a forgotten President. When Arthur came to the presidency, upon the assassination and death of Garfield in September 1881, a close friend of his exclaimed, "My God, Chester Arthur is President!" Not exactly a ringing endorsement but Arthur…
Since we are having so much fun today with presidential history, let's do another one, shall we? How about underrated Presidents, or Presidents who you think have been maligned and given a bad rap, or who don't get enough love! Here are four I would like to nominate: 1. Warren…
Our country has decided these four are our greatest Presidents. What do you say?
Here is my Mount Rushmore of Worst Presidents! What’s yours?
Ohhhhh no!!!!
Historians often rank these four presidents as the best in American history. Do you agree? If not, who would you have instead?
If you are interested in some interesting questions on the Chappaquiddick incident, on this day in 1969, check out this interesting piece in the Reader’s Digest from 1980: rd.com/list/really-ha…
July 18, 1969. As Apollo 11 raced to the moon, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick island, Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy managed to escape while his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died, likely from asphyxiation. He later pled guilty to leaving the scene of…
