This week in America, we get down and dirty in the roots of The U.S. We’ll talk Homestead and Honest Abe, The Spirit of St. Louis and America’s favorite fugitive couple, Bonnie and Clyde. Even though Gretzky, Messier and the Edmonton Oilers are Canada based, we’re also going to hit you with some puck and the beginning of an NHL dynasty.
Barack Obama is a major basketball fan, he’s also got plenty of skills on the court. His annual tradition of filling out a March Madness bracket continues as he selects Indiana to win it all. Below we have the bracket, video of him filling it out and the behind the scenes of how it all went down. Obama Fills Out His Bracket His Bracket Behind the Scenes Video
After a high-profile battle with cancer that sent him to Cuba for medical intervention, Hugo Chávez died Tuesday at age 58. Here, a look back at the Venezuelan leader’s political and person history.
This story is making the rounds on Facebook, over 5,600 Shares and growing, so we had to share. We all know Abe Lincoln and John F. Kennedy have similarities but try to have a history teacher explain this if they can. The similarities between the two are startling.
President Barack Obama and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) shared an exploding fist bump after last night’s State of the Union address. Bipartisanism is truly alive and well in the Bro-greeting department.
How do you get the so-called Millennials to care about this annual political wankathon? Why, with a drinking game of course! Now the rules are simple. Whenever something listed here happens, take a drink. Until then, get your alcoholic beverage of choice ready and get set to do your nation proud with the State of the Union Drinking Game.
While everyone seems shocked to hear the Navy SEAL who shot Osama Bin Laden is going through hard times, there are some clarifications worth noting in terms of military benefits.
Jimmy invites The Roots and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams to slow jam the ongoing debt ceiling saga in Washington.
The Bad Lip Reading team is en-fuego right now. Last week’s Bad Lip Reading NFL has over 23 million views and this video of the 2013 Presidential Inauguration is well on it’s way.
Today Washington DC celebrated the 57th U.S. Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. Now we look back at this time honored tradition with images of Presidential Inaugurations from 1901 to today.
Hundreds of thousands of people will be attending today’s 57th U.S. Presidential Inauguration, taking place today in Washington, D.C. RSVLTS.com readers on the ground are reporting that D.C. feels like Mardi Gras as people spill out of bars into the wee hours of the morning and the dozens of related parties, balls, and concerts taking place around the area. Today we will be updating an online photo journal with images from the inauguration the parade and everything in-between, so keep checking back for more.
President Obama is set to announce that Jack Lew as his new pick for Treasury Secretary. Mr. Lew is highly accomplished within the government and in finance but President Obama forgot to review one little detail, Lew’s bizarre signature – being that it could seen be printed on ever new dollar bill that goes into circulation. The story of his signature has quickly overtaken the fact that he will be replacing Timothy Geithner as the top financial dog in the country. Time Magazine even hired a Graphologists – a certain branch of handwriting analysis who’s experts believe that handwriting–with all its slants, ornamentation and, of course, loops–can reveal truths about one’s personality – to review the handwriting, see their conclusion here. Photo via: nymag.com
Whether you voted Democrat, Republican or didn’t vote at all we can all agree that these stunning high quality, insider photos shot by White House Photographer Pete Souza of Barack Obama are interesting, powerful, touching, at times hilarious and paint a mesmerizing portrait of the life of the President of the United States.
This photo of Bill Clinton meeting John F. Kennedy was taken July 24, 1963, four weeks before Clinton’s 17th birthday as the two attended the American Legion boys nation program in the Rose Garden of the White House. Bill Clinton said the moment had a profound impact on his life. Watch the video below to learn more about the photo.
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, one of the most prominent and accomplished international correspondents in the world, is reportedly missing in Syria.
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Lincoln is already an early contender for Best Picture and it doesn’t even hit theaters until November 9th. We have been waiting three years for this movie to be released and finally the day is upon us. Abe Lincoln is widely considered to be the best President in U.S. history so to get a better idea of Lincoln, the man, we pulled together several pictures.
The results are starting to roll in which means we only have a few more days of this politics nonsense. See all the results live.
Even though the characters you’ll encounter on election day are entertaining, it’s always best to be totally prepared before you head out there to vote; it can be a strange, hilarious situation.
The central channel for America’s political conversation is likely to be all but unusable on Tuesday. A strange bookend to the Twitter Election.
He’ll dance, he’ll cook—Will Ferrell will do anything to get you to vote in this election.
This is what happens when you try to troll a Govenor of a state that’s in a federal disaster zone with over 2.5 million people without power. How about waiting until everyone’s dry and safe to ask questions about Presidential politics, Fox?
Barack Obama is running out of time to make his case to the American people, so he made this video to efficiently suck up to everyone at once.
On October 27, Theodore Roosevelt’s 154th birthday, the Museum willofficially reopen the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial and the Hall of North American Mammals, launching a year-long celebration of Roosevelt’s love of nature and his instrumental role in the American conservation movement, both inspired by his lifelong association with the Museum.
All good things must come to an end. Alas, tonight is the last evening to collectively get sloshed while watching Barack Obama and Mitt Romney duel it out in a Presidential Debate over foreign policy. America! Democracy! For BroBible’s previous presidential debate drinking games, click here, here, and here. Have your adult beverage of choice ready? Ready to vomit your brains out in two hours from too many buzzwords, zingers, and Twitter snark? Great! Now let’s do this! Without further adieu, presenting our official Presidential Debate drinking game, foreign policy edition.
The 2012 Presidential election is just weeks away and Romney and Obama are in a dead-heat at 47% each. In order to pick up those well needed votes the two candidates can follow a tried and true campaign strategy, show off their love of football! Here are 17 high quality photos of Presidents playing football.
Let’s take a look back to how things were in the late 1960′s, 1967 to be specific. That year a diplomat from the Soviet Union working at the United Nations made a journey across the United States. He brought a camera and snapped these awesome pictures that will take you on a retro vacation for the brain.
How did Obama and Romney earn their degrees, where did they start grade school, and how did they manage to afford their educations? It’s all right here in an easy-to-read infographic. Apparently, the road to The White House isn’t cheap. Both candidates chose pricey private school educations that ended with advanced degrees from Harvard. Can a president educated in an ivory tower understand the stresses of the public school system and the challenges a public school student faces? Whoever wins, we’ll soon find out.
Liam Day adds some much-needed logical thinking to the debate about whether Mitt Romney wants to kill off Big Bird.
John F. Kennedy was a man of the people. So when he went up against Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election JFK did what he does best, traveled 40,000 miles, across all 50 states in a matter of month to meet, face to face, with tens of thousands of potential voters. What you are about to see is largest collection of photos from JFK’s 1960 election ever assembled. The photos are very rare and show a different age in campaigning where television was an emerging promotional tool and people still had direct access to candidates. Image source #1 | Image source #2 | Image source #3
The 2012 Presidential election is just a short five weeks away and tonight kicks off the very first Presidential debate which gets underway at 9:00 PM EST, so plan on grabbing a case of your favorite adult beverage and posting up by the TV for six 15-minute segments of domestic policy discussion. And buzzwords. Lots and lots of buzzwords.
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