Did you hear about the lady that spilled hot coffee on herself while driving and sued McDonald's for millions? Can you believe that she would sue McDonald's for her clumsiness? Of course coffee is goi...
Does the President have the power to issue an executive order that postpones the date of a Presidential election due to a national emergency? Through the history of the United States, the President...
In 1932, while the Great Depression was raging across the globe, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party called for a number of changes, including a 25% reduction in federal government costs. ...
The 1920 US Presidential election saw President Warren G. Harding easily defeat James Cox. The 1920 election also produced an interesting piece of Presidential election trivia, as Eugene V. Debs r...
Companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Nordstrom push their gift cards so hard for a reason: They make hundreds of millions of dollars per year collectively from something called "breakage". Star...
It can be argued that some Presidents step into very favorable situations when they first enter the White House, while others step into some massive headaches. President Ronald Reagan, for instanc...
The US Presidential election in 1984 remains one of the most lopsided victories in history. President Reagan ended up taking 525 electoral votes while his opponent, former Vice President Walter Mo...
It's hard to imagine a 28 year-old US senator given the fact that the average age of the Senate is currently 64 years old. In fact, there are currently four 80+ year-old US senators - Charles Gras...
There seems to be a great deal of confusion as to exactly how much money the United States has sent to Ukraine to help fund "OAR" (Operation Atlantic Resolve), aka Ukraine's defense against Russia. ...
The United States has the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which can store up to 714 million barrels of oil at a time. Canada? Canada has the Strategic Reserve of Maple Syrup (known formally as the In...
One of the biggest reasons that President Bill Clinton won the 1992 election was because of his promise to balance the federal budget. Economic growth had stalled in the United States and deficits...
As of this moment, the United States government (according to them) controls roughly 300 million ounces of gold, which is currently valued at around $900 billion. Of this amount, 147.3 million oun...
There have been a number of people who have served for more than a decade in a single Cabinet post. Names that include the likes of Albert Gallatin (Treasury), Frances Perkins (Labor) and Harold I...
Did you know that the government of Canada collected BILLIONS of dollars for a tax increase that never actually happened? In the year 2000, the Canadian Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Pa...
The Constitution of the United States requires that the President receive "compensation" for his services "which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have bee...