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Dark Money
Dragon Energy
From the Fox and Friends interview ramble to the latest from Kanye West, this past week of news has been exhausting. And repetitive.
Washington’s Birthday
Happy Washington’s Birthday! Enjoy your day off (for some) and pick up a presidential biography! Or better yet, a copy of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and wonder why we keep finding ourselves in this demeaning immigration feedback loop.
Write-in Candidates
William Rufus King was the highest serving person from Alabama, having served as Vice President to Franklin Pierce. Fun fact! He was roommates with James Buchanan for over a decade and most of their letters to one another were destroyed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Old Rough and Ready – Part One: The Rough and the Ready
This week, Two Party Opera will be bringing you another mini history story – this time, condensing the entire life and legacy of Zachary Taylor into five comics, concluding with the marking of his 233rd birthday this Friday. So sit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Farce To Be Reckoned With
Yesterday’s comic was posted late, so if you missed that one, make sure you click back to it. My energy level after Politicon (which was a blast, by the way, and I’m writing a full report of it) delayed the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comrade Buchanan
Andrew Jackson fiercely protested when James K. Polk named James Buchanan to be Secretary of State. He hated him! When Polk defended himself by pointing out that Buchanan had served as Jackson’s ambassador to Russia, Jackson explained: “It was as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…