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My Cartoons About California’s Deficit Crisis
By Daryl Cagle on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
California is my home state, and for years we’ve been kicking the can down the road. Now it seems we might have reached the end, as legislators struggle to close a new, eye-catchingly large $16-billion deficit, which has nearly doubled since Gov. Jerry Brown released his initial budget proposal in January. This is nothing new for ...
Gay Marriage: The Republican Love Affair With the Past
By Tina Dupuy on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The future is always a dystopia and the past is always better than this mess we live in right now. That’s if literature has any ability to tell us about ourselves. Stories about the future: Forewarning. Stories about the good ol’ days: Heartening. Somewhere in our collective unconscious we believe there was a golden era ...
Time to Declare a War on Stupid
By Susan Brown on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
America is not the “social issue fixer-upper in disrepair” Progressives make her out to be. Instead, America is the “world’s last great hope,” and will continue to be, just as soon as we are able to get our head above the water economically. The wave upon wave of “wars” on race, women, class and now ...
Mitt Romney’s Definition Problem
By Joe Gandelman on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman America’s 2012 Presidential election has now officially entered its “English Class” stage. On Election Day they’ll get a pop quiz to see how well the national voting class learned the teachers’ definitions. Top grade goes to the teacher whose definition was learned. In this game, presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt ...
World Needs More Billionaires Like George Lucas
By Carl Gibson on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
George Lucas, worth $3.2 billion as of 2011, may have ruined his reputation with his fans by creating Jar Jar Binks and making a travesty of a film like Episode 1, but his latest move may be the finest moment of his career. At first, Lucas intended to use his property at Old Grady Ranch ...
Lugar Proved ‘Bipartisanship’ Serves Principles Well
By Ted Kaufman on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
I have spent the last 40 years of my life working in and teaching about the United States Senate. Right after then-Senator Biden and I came to Washington, he told me something I have always kept in mind when dealing with its members. “There is a reason the citizens of each state picked each individual ...
Holding Our Military Hostage
By David Bossie on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
At the end of each May, Americans come together to remember our deceased war heroes on Memorial Day.  Every day our men and women in uniform are on the frontlines protecting our freedom and our way of life.  Our military is the best in the world because of the American soldier.  Unfortunately, Washington is playing ...
Does This Risqué Obama Cartoon Cross The Line?
By Daryl Cagle on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Our brilliant but knuckle-dragging conservative cartoonist, Eric Allie, weighed in on the Washington Post’s Mitt Romney bullying story with this funny but risqué cartoon I imagine many editors will pass up for safer cartoons: I asked Allie to weigh in with his thoughts on the cartoon, but he preferred to let it speak for itself. “It’s crude,” he ...
Sexy Politicians Sue a Prague Cartoonist
By Daryl Cagle on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Last month I visited Prague and had lunch with Czech cartoonist Štěpán Mareš, who draws full page cartoons for the weekly news/opinion magazine Reflex. Štěpán had just won a lawsuit in the Czech Republic’s supreme court over a cartoon (below) titled “Paroubek’s Erotic Fantasies,” featuring Jiří Paroubek, the country’s former Prime Minister. The woman in the cartoon, ...
Easy Life in France Just a Dream
By Tom Purcell on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Ah, to be French. In the face of high taxes, high unemployment, poor economic growth, massive government spending and powerful public-sector unions that are gobbling up tax dough, the French people just voted against austerity measures to get their finances in order. President Nicolas Sarkozy, a conservative, was defeated by Socialist Francois Hollande, who promises ...
Time To Re-Evolve on Social Security
By Cliff Schecter on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Last week we witnessed the Capo di tutti capi of political and policy evolution. President Barack Obama, after Vice-President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan played the role of his social-issue Shofar, came out in favor of equal of marriage for all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation. To put it in simple terms: for ...
A Nation at Dusk: Goodnight Moon; Goodnight America
By Michael Stafford on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Addressing Congress on May 25, 1961, President Kennedy challenged America and set a seemingly impossible goal- sending a person to the moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy’s ambitious dream was realized by the Apollo program, and, since that time, manned space exploration has been an intrinsic part of both America’s national character, and ...
Is Unity Possible?
By Floyd & Mary Beth Brown on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Sitting on the floor of the Arizona Republican convention, we have a sick feeling in our stomachs. Everyone in this room wants to defeat Barack Obama, but divisions are deep, and much work needs to be done to heal the wounds. Early In the day we heard a series of speeches from Arizona and GOP ...
No Make Up? No Problem For Hillary
By Keli Goff on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Hillary Clinton has endured more criticism in her two decades on the national stage than most of us will in two lifetimes. There was the early insinuation that she wasn’t a real woman, since she had the audacity not to stay home and “bake cookies,” as she curtly put it, and worse, not to be sorry about ...
Jesus, Freddie Mercury and Gay Marriage
By Daryl Cagle on Monday, May 14th, 2012
Following the big news events last week surrounding gay marriage, we received lots of great cartoons, from both the right and the left, about whether gay marriage should be legal in this country (check out our complete collection here). Mr. Fish is one of my favorite cartoonists and probably the farthest left of any cartoonist ...
Classic Cartoon on Media Bias
By Daryl Cagle on Monday, May 14th, 2012
For those of you that think so-called “media bias” is something new and unique to our 24-hour media landscape, check out this classic cartoon about the difference in coverage a Teddy Roosevelt meeting received. The cartoon was drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist John T. McCutcheon, who is known as the “Dean of American Cartoonists”, and ...
Evoluting Fabulously
By Will Durst on Monday, May 14th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst A thousand rainbows of congratulations to Barack Obama for bursting out of his own personal policy closet and fabulously proclaiming he believes “same sex couples should be able to get married.” Sir! Welcome to the third year of the second decade of the 21st century, sir! You also might want ...
It’s Not a Flip-Flop If You Get It Right
By Rob Tornoe on Monday, May 14th, 2012
Originally posted on Newsworks.org What is the definition of a flip-flopper? It’s interesting to explore the origin of the term. Famed New York Times columnist William Safire wrote about a U.S. politician in the late 19th century who was refereed to as “the Florida flopper” by an opponent. Safire noted that the “fl” sound appearing ...
The Black LBJ
By Jason Stanford on Monday, May 14th, 2012
The black Kennedy has become the black LBJ. In the hyper-political circles I travel in, the release of Robert Caro’s latest Lyndon Johnson biography, “The Passage of Power”, was received with the glee that’s usually reserved for an Obama rally. To paraphrase Joe Biden, the fourth book in Caro’s promised five-volume LBJ biography is a ...
Five Facts That Put America to Shame
By Paul Buchheit on Monday, May 14th, 2012
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health care, education, and financial industries. ...
My Mother’s Day
By John Toth on Saturday, May 12th, 2012
We sat in the railroad car as the train made its way through the countryside. Neither one of us had ever been this far from home. The train approached the border crossing between Austria and Hungary. The border guards began to board. It was a brisk, sunny day on March 6, 1966. It was my ...
My Gay Marriage Cartoons
By Daryl Cagle on Friday, May 11th, 2012
President Obama’s decision to come out this week in support of Gay Marriage caps a decade-long shift in the acceptance of same-sex couples in this country. Obviously, there are many religious groups and individuals that will never support the idea of two men shacking up, but the polling data is pretty interesting.   When the ...
Best Political Cartoons of the Week
By Daryl Cagle on Friday, May 11th, 2012
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow. So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
Obama’s Gas-Powered War on Coal
By Phil Kerpen on Friday, May 11th, 2012
With the increasingly likelihood that Obama’s health care law will be struck down in court or repealed next Congress, the administration has been working hard to cement another dubious legacy: the destruction of the coal industry. Obama’s war on coal is stirring a lot of anger in parts of the country like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, ...
Why America’s Rich People Are Better Than Everyone Else’s
By Paul Buchheit on Friday, May 11th, 2012
A remarkable story appeared in Newsweek recently, a celebration by author Daniel Gross of America’s re-emergence as the strongest economy and best darn nation in the world. An underlying theme in the article, implicit in the grandiose descriptions of our post-recession growth, is that all American lives must be improving because of the magic of our “resilient ...
FCC: Break Up the Big Media Monopoly
By Carl Gibson on Friday, May 11th, 2012
Houston rapper Pimp C of UGK had a phrase that he frequently used for Texas rappers whom he felt inadequately represented his state: “You embarrassin’ us.” The same could be said for today’s spineless, weak-kneed, irrelevant mainstream media. In a functioning democracy, the media is the people’s voice, and the entity responsible for holding power accountable. ...
Obama’s Gay Marriage Evolution – Five Cartoons
By Daryl Cagle on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
President Obama’s decision to complete his “evolution” on the issue of same-sex marriage has created a media feeding frenzy, and momentarily shifted the debate from the economy and jobs.   The timing for Obama is odd, who was obviously forced to announce his position after Vice President Joe Biden openly supported same-sex marriage on “Meet ...
Obama Hands Hedge Funds New Loophole to Make Money
By Pratap Chatterjee on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
CorpWatch by Pratap Chatterjee Hedge funds, a publicity-shy sector of the financial industry where the super wealthy invest their money in the hope of making above-average profits, were just handed an opportunity to make even more money under a new law signed by President Barack Obama. Consumer advocates say that unsophisticated investors may be at risk ...
Only Obama is Better Off
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan The only person I know who is better off today than he was four years ago is President Obama. He’s making more money, living in a bigger house and playing more golf. And when his wife goes on a shopping spree with her girlfriends, it’s to Spain on the taxpayer’s ...
Should College Football Be Abolished?
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Does Buzz Bissinger score a touchdown with you, or do you find him personally foul? The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (author of the 1988 bestseller and cautionary tale “Friday Night Lights”) has stirred up quite a firestorm with a recent Wall Street Journal article declaring “Why College Football Should Be Banned.” Yes, ...
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