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Iran’s Threat to Israel is a Threat to Us All
By David Bossie on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
As Iran continues its nuclear weapons push, the Obama Administration continues to undermine its biggest ally and the only democracy in the region, the state of Israel.  President Obama has had a rocky relationship at best with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Back in May 2010, President Obama walked out of a meeting with Prime ...
Five Frothy Rick Santorum Cartoons
By Daryl Cagle on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
It’s make-or-break time for Rick Santorum (who still can’t escape the infamy of his last name on Google). The culture warrior has risen in popularity among the Republican base by throwing out red meat pertaining to religion, birth control and slamming the president’s value system as a “phony theology.” Can Santorum not only win ...
Jeremy Lin Cartoons
By Daryl Cagle on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Our cartoonists don’t draw many sports cartoons, but when a great story enters the zeitgeist, they sharpen their pencils and dig in. Jeremy Lin, the out-of-nowhere star player for the Knicks, has almost single-handedly reversed the fortunes of his team. Check out what our cartoonists think of Linsanity with our new collection of Jeremy ...
Give Karen Santorum Credit for Co-Writing Her Husband’s Book
By Tina Dupuy on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
On paper Rick Santorum is not a generous man. He’s the most religious; the staunchest of the moralists; the fastest to the Bible thumpyist; the preachiest of the preachy in this race. He’s the most giant-government-forcing-you-to-be-holy of the small-government-for-corporations-only candidates. Yet according to his tax returns, he gives the least amount to charity of anyone ...
Who Is Policing the Food Police?
By Susan Brown on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
President and Mrs. Obama seem to be terrific parents and should be commended for the steps they have taken to improve the health and well-being of America’s kids. Back in December 2010, President Obama signed the “Healthy, Hunger Free Children Act” into law, and in January 2012, the First Lady, in partnership with U.S. ...
Santorum: A (Risky) Choice, Not an Echo
By Joe Gandelman on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman With former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, you know that what you see is what you’re going to get. And that’s going to be the problem for Republicans if the most popular anti-Romney yet is nominated. Santorum is surging. A new Gallup Poll now finds that even though a majority of ...
What a Concept for US Automakers
By Tom Purcell on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
What’s billed as America’s biggest car show is wrapping in Chicago today. Boy, American concept cars sure aren’t what they used to be. USA Today reports that “in a more cynical age of downsized dreams and tight development budgets, the wild concept car — auto show eye candy — is becoming rarer.” I’m an American. ...
Why Every Woman Should Celebrate Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue
By Keli Goff on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Each year, shortly after we have made and already begun to break our New Year’s resolutions, Americans become captivated by sports’ most competitive contest. No I am not referring to the Super Bowl, but the contest for who will grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Landing the cover is supposed to be ...
Deregulating Over and Over and Expecting Different Results
By Paul Buchheit on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A cynic might argue that business leaders and their friends in Congress weren’t expecting different results. In either case, we’ve become a bipolar nation, 1% manic and 99% depressive. Our affliction is caused by a 30-year experiment in the dismal economics of delusion. Deregulation for corporations and tax cuts for the wealthy have defined conservative ...
Whitney Houston
By Bob Englehart on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
I was in New York this past weekend and listened to Whitney Houston‘s funeral on the radio and watched some of it on TV. It was on about seven or eight stations. The tribute by Kevin Costner was moving. She was such a big star that a memorial ...
Chris Christie: Less Superman, More Clark Kent
By Rob Tornoe on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Originally posted on Newsworks I’ve drawn Chris Christie a lot as Superman. After all, isn’t he the guy who flew into Trenton promising to rid us of public corruption, property taxes and to fight against an oppressive government for the will of the people? Well, by vetoing a same-sex marriage bill that a ...
My Rising Gas Price Cartoons
By Daryl Cagle on Monday, February 20th, 2012
With the cost of a gallon of gas inching closer and closer to $4, many economists worry that the pinch people are feeling at the pump will harm our current recovery. The rising cost of gas is something that happens every year, but it seems to be getting worse. Gas prices have never been higher ...
The 2012 Political Animal Awards
By Will Durst on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Don’t mean to overreact and risk boosting everybody’s blood pressure higher than opening offers on Facebook’s upcoming IPO, but this might be a halfway decent time to seek out a nice, safe steel bunker to hunker down in or behind, because it’s awards season and heavy metal statuettes are being ...
China Makes the Case For Regulation
By Ted Kaufman on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Not long ago I was part of a panel that included a top executive of a major Fortune 500 company. There was general agreement about the subject at hand until he started to deliver the standard pitch about how government regulations were killing American business. The fact is, I don’t know anyone who defends unnecessary ...
Has Michigan Become Santorum Country?
By Jason Stanford on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Hell might be getting ready to freeze over. Nate Silver, the New York Times’ resident nerdistician, calculates that there is a 77 percent chance that Mitt Romney could lose the Michigan primary on February 28. This is the same Michigan where Mitt was born. The same Michigan where his father was governor. Romney losing ...
Sorry Haters, People Like Ellen DeGeneres
By Michael Kindt on Monday, February 20th, 2012
One Million Moms, a side project of the hate group American Family Association, is very angry at JC Penney. You see, JC Penney, probably drunk at the time on the white man’s fire water, hired Ellen DeGeneres, an openly gay woman, as it’s spokesperson. “Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will ...
What Political Cartoonists Do
By Daryl Cagle on Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Pat Bagley, cartoonist extraordinaire for the Salt Lake Tribune, came up with this funny look at political cartoonists…
New York Times Takes a ‘Second Look’ at Cartoon Policy
By Daryl Cagle on Friday, February 17th, 2012
Last week, I wrote a column about a new policy initiated by The New York Times geared towards returning political cartoons to their Sunday Review section. I applauded the decision to bring back cartoons, but was critical of the paltry fee they were offering, as well as their idea to have cartoonists submit their ...
GOP Hear Them Roar
By Cliff Schecter on Friday, February 17th, 2012
As I watch this Republican presidential primary season proceed in a manner roughly consistent with the course of the Costa Concordia, it has led me to a suspicion I feel honor-bound to share: I think the Republicans are throwing this thing. I’m not yet sure why. It could be that it better sets them up ...
Occupy Oakland Drawings
By Daryl Cagle on Friday, February 17th, 2012
My daughter, graphic journalist Susie Cagle, has posted a new series of drawings from Occupy Oakland, which she has been covering for various media outlets. “Occupy Oakland has captured the nation and even the world’s attention at times,” she writes on Truth-Out. “But those times have not been for Occupy Oakland’s thoughtful direct actions ...
Rick Santorum’s Willful Ascent
By Matt Mackowiak on Friday, February 17th, 2012
Rick Santorum was the longest of long shots when, five years after losing his bid for reelection to the Senate by 18 points, he spent much of 2011 campaigning for president in three early-primary states. But he campaigned longer and harder – albeit with less media attention, money, and staff – than any other Republican ...
Slip Slidin’ Away
By Peter Funt on Friday, February 17th, 2012
Was it a flub or fib? A slip or a flip-flop? Maybe a gaffe? Voters judging the presidential candidates must dig through a growing list of imprecise utterances these days to determine whether the remarks should be taken seriously. Even the smallest quips make it to the Internet and cable-TV, and many need deciphering. Flub ...
Best Political Cartoons Of The Week
By Daryl Cagle on Friday, February 17th, 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.  
Make a Difference for Foster Children
By Michael Reagan on Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan I am an adopted son. I am a very lucky adopted son. And as an adopted son I want all adoptees like me to have the same wonderful adoptive parents I was lucky enough to have. My biological mother was an unmarried young woman from Ohio who had an affair ...
Staples Co-Founder: Allowing Breastfeeding At Work Will ‘Kill Jobs’
By Michael Hayne on Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Staunch Republican donor and co-founder of Staples, Tom Stemberg, has a grave concern that might just throw the fragile economic recovery into the into a precipitous tailspin: breastfeeding. Indeed, the ever-so menacing and communist practice of a new mother providing natural enrichment and bonding with her newborn child (maybe because she doesn’t charge the kid ...
Should Students Be Paid To Attend School?
By Danny Tyree on Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Tyrades! By Danny Tyree Could pocket change have persuaded Ferris Bueller to forego his day off? That’s what I wondered when I read about a bold experiment by Dohn Community High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, this alternative school (serving mostly at-risk low-income and minority students) gives seniors a $25 Visa ...
Why the Jeremy Lin Phenomenon?
By Jan Ting on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
I suppose that if you don’t live around New York, and you’re not a sports fan, and don’t follow the news, and you don’t happen to be of Asian descent, there might be a chance that you haven’t heard about Jeremy Lin, a point guard for the injury-plagued New York Knicks. Lin had just been ...
Republicans: The Severe Conservatives
By Tina Dupuy on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Part of being a Democrat is acting like you’re losing even when you’re winning. Part of being a Republican is acting like you’re winning even when you’re losing. The phrase “silent majority,” that brilliant bit of Nixonian rhetoric, is a way to augment Republican numbers and voices. “Nearly all people agree with me and they’re ...
Let’s Never Forget Charlie and Braden Powell
By Joe Gandelman on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman DES MOINES, Iowa — The plate clatter grows around dinner time at Spaghetti Works here in Des Moines’ historical district. A family enters with two young boys. I look at them and my eyes tear up. A couple comes in with a teenage son. I think about what I read ...
Burning Down the GOP House
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The GOP presidential contest is officially out of control. We blame Mitt Romney. While the race has been winnowed down, it is still fluid, and one of four candidates could be chosen to battle against Barack Obama in the fall election. Problem is, once the nominee is chosen he may be so bloodied that he ...
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