Yowza yowza yowza, the Spin Room at the National Constitution Center has been conquered by Mr. Spin himself, Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign’s communications director and new Chief Strategist! He sure looks like he wants to hit some fella. Maybe the douchebag blogger pointing the camera in his face for like 20 seconds? (Can’t this guy shave?)

Whatever. A multitude of old slaveowners cast in bronze discussing America, after the jump. MORE »

Ron Paul’s new joint drops April 30, and according to Amazon.com’s pre-release figures, it’s the #1 bestselling political book already! And if you check out the product description, you might see why: “The government is expanding; Taxes are increasing; More senseless wars are being planned; Inflation is ballooning; Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn’t want any of this.” Whaaa? Mine eyes have been opened! Damn high school history teachers, always going on about how George Washington loved inflation. [Amazon]

WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON A PAULTARD? “Jefferson developed a full-blooded conspiracy theory in which bankers, speculators, federal officeholders, and a small but powerful congregation of closet Tories permanently alienated from the agrarian majority (’They all live in Cities,’ he wrote) had captured the meaning of the Revolution and were now proceeding to strangle it to death behind the closed doors of investment houses and within the faraway corridors of the Federalist government in New York and Philadelphia.” [Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis]

Well, that didn’t take long. The beloved Conservapedia has already sunk to un-Americanisms and comments about the Founding Fathers owning slaves. MORE »

America’s craziest Founding Father was born on this day back in Seventeen Hundred and Six in Boston. Benjamin Franklin loved wine, physics, France, string quartets, vulgarity and all the ladies. He was also a pretty good cartoonist and authored what is remembered as the very first American political cartoon: a chopped-up snake that was somehow supposed to encourage the 13 colonies to get it together against the French colonists and American Indians to the west.

It is safe to say Franklin would’ve been named an Enemy Combatant by the current administration. “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety,” wrote the good doctor in his 1759 Historical Review.

Come learn more weird stuff about America’s Number One celebrity of the mid-eighteenth century, after the jump.

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If the new Democratic leadership is scared to death of even saying impeachment, Violent Revolution is unlikely to spice up American life any time soon. MORE »

Happy Censure Day everyone! It’s gonna be a helluvalotta fun — we’re glued to C-Span, obvs, and you should be too! MORE »