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5 YMCA Gym Memberships in San Francisco

The YMCA in San Francisco, California, offers 15 branches, all of which have many membership options from which to choose. You can choose from a number of branches in the San Francisco area and the nearby Bay Area. YMCA Gym Membership has no sign-up fee. Anyone can join for free and the charges are reasonable. […]

Election of 1856: Buchanan and the Point of No Return for the Status Quo

Candidates: Democratic Party: James Buchanan (Pennsylvania) and John Breckenridge (Kentucky) Republican Party: John Fremont (California) and William Dayton (New Jersey) American (Know Nothing) Party: Millard Fillmore (New York) and Andrew Donelson (Tenn.) Election Results: Buchanan/Breckenridge:174 electoral votes, 1.83 million popular votes Fremont/Dayton: 114 electoral votes, 1.34 million popular votes Fillmore/Donelson: 8 electoral votes, 873,000 popular […]

Our Worst President — and No it is Not George W. Bush

One of the many heated debates of historians today involves arguing who the greatest President of the United States was. Americans are attracted to good leaders; almost magnetized by their personality and sense of purpose. Leaders like Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Wilson are all noted for a sense of vision and calculated course of action. […]

President James Buchanan

In the decades leading up to the American Civil War, the nation experienced crisis after crisis as politicians endlessly debated and citizens took arms against each other to settle political problems. The presidents that followed Zachary Taylor either did nothing to slow the slide to war or actually made the problems facing the United States […]