For all the dads out there, presidential or otherwise, have a Happy Father’s Day this Sunday!
We interrupt celebrations for President Trump’s birthday to wish you all a Happy Flag Day! On May 13, 1916, in the middle of fighting World War I, Woodrow Wilson declared that June 14 will now be celebrated as Flag Day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comic 222 and we’re still finding conspiracies in repetitive numbers. Maybe if the All-seeing Masonic Eye of the Unfinished Pyramid was wearing his banners, he could fire back with ANNUIT COEPTIS, a phrase of 13 letters, although so does the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have a question for George Washington that you’ve always wondered about? Email him at washington@twopartyopera.com and your letter could be featured in a future installment of “Letters to Mr. Washington!”
Thank you all for indulging me this week with some heavy doses of presidential history. You may raise an eyebrow at this one, and I’m not exonerating Nixon for Watergate, but his unhealthy addiction to paranoia was born out of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roosevelt and Taft would eventually make amends in 1918 once both of them were no longer running for some kind of political office. Funny how that works. Over the last year throughout the campaign and now where our current government[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pardon all the words – but sometimes history needs all the words it can get its hands on. Today and for the rest of the week, I’ll be presenting “Frenemies: Tales of Presidential Friends Becoming Presidential Foes” in three parts.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dwight D. Eisenhower was known for being a careful strategist and a diligent planner. This came to take notice in the events following Pearl Harbor where his thinking of fighting the Nazis first before Japan to free up Allied Forces[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of all the people who have made similar jokes to today’s comic, I bet not a one of them has also included a defense of the spoils system. Not a one.
