A Thousand Cuts
In case my caricatures were not clear enough, that’s John McCain in the first panel, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel in the second, and the President in...
View ArticlePenal Colony Catch-22
Last Friday, the ObamAdmin decided to carry on the BushAdmin legal argument that “enemy combatants” held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have no Constitutional rights, despite a U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleFaith in Our Leader
I wrote the script for this shortly after watching Obama’s press conference the other night. Given the enormity of the problems he has inherited, he has no choice but to ask for our patience as his...
View ArticleTea with the Queen
The protests at the G20 Summit in London have gained as much attention as President Obama’s giving Queen Elizabeth an iPod. Which tells you something about the media. This story was inspired in part...
View ArticleTime Ironizes Everything
Posting late today, so I’ll keep the production notes brief. This toon took a lot of photo-referencing: in order of appearance, Boss Tweed (based on Thomas Nast’s caricature, of course); Teddy...
View ArticleHomework Front
I meant to post this last Tuesday, the day of President Obama’s address to students. That would have been really, really, really timely. But I have kids of my own starting school, one entering...
View ArticleDiscourse Leveller
FWIW, I have an opinion on Obama’s Peace Prize – but, honestly, this is one issue I don’t care that much about to opine upon. I have been more interested in how quickly unthinking partisanship...
View ArticleObama Vs. FOXNews
For information on FOXNews’ right-to-lie suit, go here. As for Obama’s “open government” initiatives, David Froomkin wrote a critical piece last June that touched on both the refreshing and the...
View ArticleHow to Sell a War
Raise your hand if you are surprised that Obama has decided to escalate the war in Afghanistan. If your hand is up, smack yourself with it.
View ArticleFear, War and Idiots
Obama has been catching flak from the Right and the Washington Consensus makers for failing to panic when a young man set his pants on fire. I am not sure how better served we would have been had...
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