Tea Party activists, I owe you an apology. I used to think that the country was divided between blue states and the "irony-free zone." I realize now that the Tea Party is, in fact, a lot funnier than Democrats ever were.

When the leadership of the Tea Party accused...

Everyone knows that Benjamin Franklin was our first diplomatic envoy in Paris and that he almost single-handedly forged the alliance with France that provided the arms that clinched the American Revolution. Or, well, we thought so, anyway. In fact, long before Ben Franklin set foot in France the Franco-American alliance...