WASHINGTON, DC, 12:46 PM, TUE NOVEMBER 24 | Advertise on Wonkette | tips@wonkette.com | SUBMIT A TIP | RSS

Posts Tagged ‘world war ii’

FOREIGN POLICY

America Not Going to Have to Break UK’s Thumbs

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Expect Britain to quit being so nice to us all the time — ’cause they’re finally paid up. MORE »


NEW YORK TIMES

Happy Pearl Harbor Day! Feel Free to Detain a Japanese Family!

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Ben Affleck, patriot. - WonketteOn this day, 64 65 years ago, America lost its innocence, and a bunch of ships.

The “World Wide Web” is full of touching tributes to this historic day. Here’s one from Riehl World View. It’s about how we don’t deserve to celebrate Pearl Harbor Day because our country sucks now and is run by Al Gore.

America was frightened of nothing when she began, not because she was brave, but because she was afraid of everything, being a mere niche on a coastline in a once distant and still foreboding land.

Truer words were never spoken, patriot!

More Pearl Harbor fun below decks!

MORE »


GEORGE W. BUSH

Now What Poor Aide’s Going to Have to Break the News that FDR Founded Social Security?

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

We missed this, amid all the gruesome hurricane coverage. Our president celebrated the 60th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in World War II in the classiest fashion imaginable, by likening himself to FDR. Speaking to recruits at a Coranado, Calif. naval base Bush laid it all out plainly: MORE »