George Washington, who died 217 years ago of acute laryngitis, will be the first speaker at this year’s Republican National Convention. And as of right now, dead former President George Washington is also the only speaker, according to the official RNC app.
A year before he murdered two police officers and a bystander in Las Vegas, a groggy Jerad Miller took to YouTube to claim the founding fathers would have loved assault weapons.
The presidents we celebrate today were very different men. Abraham Lincoln loved to talk and debate and write and read books and be boring. George Washington was quiet and dignified, never wasting words. Abraham Lincoln led the United States into war over slavery. George Washington actually owned slaves. And in…
Meet Lizzie Mae. Lizzie Mae is the personal housemaid to President and Lady Washington — or, what is more commonly known as a slave.
He's our first president, he could not tell a lie, and he's Britain's greatest ever foe. Yes, George Washington has had this dubious honor bestowed on him by the National Army Museum. Washington beat out such notable adversaries as Michael Collins and Napoleon Bonaparte. I guess now would be the appropriate time to…
Feeling patriotic? Stop drinking that sickening imported swill right now, and brew the most American beer of all time: George Washington's beer, made from a recipe he wrote in his Notebook as a Virginia Colonel.
[Activists gathered in Washington today for the annual "March for Life" rally. Grown men dressed as George Washington and Captain America are the last people who should be telling women what to do with their bodies. Image via Getty]
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters will describe the lives of 13 "groundbreaking Americans," including famed vagina painter Georgia O'Keeffe, George Washington, and Jackie Robinson. Obama wrote it in 2008; proceeds will fund fallen veterans' children's educations. [ABCNews]
Quick: What's the best way for a politician to broadcast short, nearly-incomprehensible missives to the world? No, it's not by hacking into Wolf Blitzer's teleprompter before The Situation Room. Twitter! Here are the seven scientifically-determined "Twitter geniuses" of the Senate.
Most Americans want Glenn Beck to be our next president and return us to prosperity. The only hiccup? Getting him to run! Fortunately, the clown lady in this video is circulating a petition to change all that.
Since George Washington is dead and Glenn Beck doesn't know who is going to be the next president, the only logical step is to...build a George Washington?
In 1789 George Washington borrowed books about international relations and the British House of Commons from a Manhattan library. He never returned them. If he returned them now, he'd owe an "inflation-adjusted $300,000 late fee." [NYDN]
Beloved hermaphrodite and pop art whosiwhatsit Lady Gaga finally gets the perfect tribute from artist Craig Gleason [NSFW] who is making dollar bills in her likeness. Yes, the medium is definitely the message, even if may be kind of illegal.
Newspapers have been having problems, and whatnot. Why have they not asked Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's advice sooner? Despite this error, Carter has deigned to stop having amazing sex for a few minutes to tell you how to save newspapers:
