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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE: First Godless, Then Faceless, Now Nameless And Dateless

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Conservapedia Already Ravaged by Libtards

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007


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


Daily Briefing: The Biggest Nuts

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

* President’s Day trip to Mount Vernon inspires George W. Bush to say of George Washington, “He is I, and I am him.” [NYT]
* Hillary Clinton swallows the “you go, girl” sloganeering, impresses black voters in South Carolina. [WP, NYT]
* John McCain was also in South Carolina yesterday, flip-flopping and cracking Rumsfeld jokes to the delight of morons everywhere. [AP]
* The rise and fall of Richard B. Cheney, “confrontationalist, warmonger, and happy talker.” [WP, NYT]
* The knee-slapping hilarity of “series of tubes” has subsided, leaving “series of pipes” to fill the vacuum. [WP]
* Freshman Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand works hard to prove she’s not just another MoCILF. [NYT]
* Forrest Gump, Rachel Green, James “Thunder” Early, and Malcom X write fat checks for Barack Obama. [NYT ]
* The ascendant Justice Scalia: tolerating pussy judges no more. [LAT]


Bush Finds Many Similarities Between George Washington & Himself

Monday, February 19th, 2007

One of these Georges is a twat. - WonketteGeorge Washington was a towering figure of the American Revolution, which we won. He was so beloved that even the staunchest supporters of the new republican democracy (or democratic republic) were stunned when he didn’t proclaim himself king of the new nation, instead returning home to Mount Vernon where he intended to be a private citizen — until the other Founding Fathers and the citizenry convinced him to serve as president. MORE »


Gossip Roundup: Tiger in Your Tank

Monday, February 19th, 2007

* Reliable Source: Who’s Anna Nicole Smith’s baby-daddy? Yes, it’s President’s Day Weekend… Which bits of Breach are real and which are made-up? Take a quiz… More juicy Woodrow Wilson gossip! [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Virginia hates Hillary, loves Barry ObamaMos Def wore an “Obama: So Fresh, So Clean” shirt the other night… Rep. Roscoe Bartlett wants everyone to stop calling it Presidents’ Day, because it’s clearly Washington’s birthday… Newt Gingrich will not announce his intention to lose the Republican nomination until September. [Examiner]
* Washington Whispers: Mike Huckabee’s daughter is following him around keeping him out of trouble… Bushies still attempting to stack the courts, hope to get one more on SCOTUS before they’re run out of town… Arlen Specter called the Supreme Court lazy. [USN&WR]


Bush Interview: What’s He Pretending to Have Read?

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Remainders: Voting for Virility

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

* “That motherfucker George Washington had like thirty god damn dicks.” [Drink at Work] MORE »


Metro Section: What Does Bourbon Do to Wooden Teeth?

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

George Washington: Distiller, patriot, capitalist running dog: He was “one of the country’s first successful entrepreneurs, building a whiskey distillery that made the equivalent of $300,000 in two years.” Mt. Vernon is reopening the still in 2007. [WT]
American University president Benjamin Ladner asked for five mil to “maintain my current living level.” Suggestion from the peanut gallery: “Maybe Ladner can run FEMA!” [WP, DCeiver]
DC evangelical festival organizers sign up commercial sponsors: “When people see names of companies they know and recognize, it gives them a comfort level.” True — I don’t know about God, but I believe in Coke. (Pepsi is actual sponsor. Heathens.) [WP]
More MSM attention to the Butterstick controversy! and a suggestion: Naiyou Bao—or “milk-oil dumpling.” Ew. [Washingtonian via BBBS] MORE »