GEORGE WASHINGTON Archive

Behold These Goofs 
Unable to stage signing the “Mount Vernon Statement” at, um, Mount Vernon, massed conservatives held their event instead at the swanky Collingwood Library & Museum, a former dinner theatre venue  on property   once owned by George Washington and now available for wedding rentals.
Mount Vernon wouldn’t let them hold a political […]

First In War, First In Peace, & Not On The Tip Of Sarah Palin’s Tongue 
Twenty-Twelve Dream Twixie Sarah Palin continues making the rounds of the Fox News Legends she now resides among, only to be caught out by Glen “I Know It When I See It” Beck, of all people.With the spunk and verve […]

The Forgotten Man 
The Dallas Morning News reports that former President Bush is on a slow road to nowhere in the mysteries of the Internet.  In Google searches for “bush library”   The George W. Bush Presidential Center ranks below Dad and below a blog on the Library-to-be that hasn’t been updated since May 2007.
The News […]

Dead White European Males, Monumental Addition 
 

The Washington Post marks President’s Day Eve profiling Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall, who offers an entertaining add-on to the Washington Monument.
What finer place to commemorate Nat Turner’s    slave rebellion?
The sly artist told the Post that  Barack Obama’s election  is all well and good…

“But the moment that […]

David Plouffe: Let The Eagle Soar 
Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe appears to be following the well worn path of other political advisers: make your name in America, then make a killing advising foreign tyrants on prettying up.
Plouffe is traveling to Azerbaijan to meet second generation oil despot and President Ilham Aliyev.    Poppy […]