Warren Harding has been repeatedly trashed by historians as a man with no accomplishments in office. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard repeat the oft-used lie, portraying Harding as someone who never really distinguished himself in politics. The historical record says otherwise.

The reputation of Warren Harding’s administration has been tainted by scandals, three major ones which historians have used to paint it as the most corrupt in American history. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, in their book, Confronting the Presidents, get Harding wrong yet again.

I recently purchased the newest book by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard entitled Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden. I love presidential history and have dozens of volumes on ratings and surveys of our chief executives, some good, others not so much. 

Have you ever had someone betray you? Especially someone who is close to you, or professes to be close to you, maybe even love you?

People are not always who they seem to be. Many people profess to be Christians but are “false brethren,” to use the Apostle Paul’s phrase. Yet many will cloak what they say in Christianity, acting as if they are followers of Christ, yet are far from it in reality.

Even though I am a historian, genealogy is not really my thing. Don’t get me wrong, I love finding out who my ancestors were but I’ve never really gotten into the hunt, even as things have gotten so much easier with the internet, Ancestry.com, and the like. My brother Drew, though, has gotten into it and found a lot of very interesting things. So I’m quite content to let him find it all and send it to me.

In the old Soviet Union an often-told joke went something like this: “The future is certain, it’s the past that’s unpredictable.” That’s because it was always changing. Unfavorable history would be scrubbed in an instant. 

In just the last few months, former President Donald Trump has been indicted four separate times for actions surrounding the election of 2020 and the events of January 6. So far, he has amassed 91 separate charges in both federal and state courts. With most of the charges, if not all, being of questionable legality, if not downright silly, it is obvious that this is an attempt by corrupt Democrats to destroy their political opposition. But this is not a first in American history such a campaign to legally punish political opposition has been waged.