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Very Nice Things
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Trump’s national security advisors wrote “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in big letters on his briefing papers about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s re-election “win.” So of course the next thing Trump did was to call him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smoot-Hawley
Today’s comic is loosely adapted from my sheer amusement of watching Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, explain on national television why the proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum are nothing to worry about by holding up a soup can. Is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We continue our presidential-themed Black History Month Wednesdays with Selma Burke – an amazing artist whose history has been all been ignored, despite her long trail of accomplishments. She was tasked to do a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
State of the Union
Antideficiency Act
I personally believe that if your only leverage to protect vulnerable people from randomly having their lives destroyed is shutting down the government, then by all means, shut down the government.
Shutdown
There are 13 official presidential libraries operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. The first was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, who, for the first time, decided to leave his personal papers to the public. It kicked off a tradition with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March of Dimes
Happy 80th anniversary to the March of Dimes! The efforts initially led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt would lead to an almost immediate reversal of the polio crisis – from tens of thousands of new cases with children dying in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
White House Christmas Traditions
Bill of Rights Day
A reminder from one of my favorite Founding Fathers, James Wilson, that in most states, today is the last day to sign up for 2018 healthcare coverage at Healthcare.gov. A right that, despite being the “greatest country in the world,”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…