I’m having more and more fun drawing Mitt Romney. The grey temples, the perfect hair. Normally, good looking politicians are the worst to draw, and Romney looks like he belongs on “Mad Men”, but I have to admit he’s growing on me. Still, I don’t think he is quite stylish enough, so I thought I’d give him some tattoos in ...

Political cartoonists often use established visual metaphors in order to help get their opinion across in their work. Greek urns have managed to survive thousands of years, so what better metaphor to use in order to describe the fiscal calamity Greece currently faces?

If you ask the typical hyper-political gun owner (and I have … at Thanksgiving dinner), why it’s important to own a gun, they’ll bark about the Constitution. Yes, the Second Amendment: “The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed!” This of course is the slogan the National Rifle Association ...

It could be said a narcissist’s best friend is the reflection he sees of himself in the mirror. No other relationship comes close — unless the narcissist has the unique opportunity to meet another version of himself, which happened last week, during the recent Group of Eight (G-8) summit at Camp David. “President Obama, this ...

Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman If someone shoots a person wearing a hoodie, could it be partially explained because it made the person look like a menacing gangster? Apparently that continues to be the view of Fox News’ fading, mustachioed news personality Geraldo Rivera, who is at it again. Rivera seems stuck in defending- racial- ...

The Washington Post  has an explosive exposé on the level of access lobbyists have to the White House, as revealed by the official visitor logs. According to the Post, the logs “show that the lobbying industry Obama has vowed to constrain is a regular presence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The records also suggest that lobbyists ...

Remember when police beat Tea Party activists with batons, raided homes without warrants, unjustly arrested and strip-searched Tea Party protesters, or attacked and intimidated journalists covering Tea Party rallies? Me neither. But then again, the Tea Party took to the streets in favor of higher profits and less regulations for the richest 1 percent, whose ...

While everyone’s been talking about “The Life of Julia,” I’ve been investigating her “missing years.” Julia, you see, is the title character in an online slide show created by the Obama re-election campaign that explains how the president’s policies give Julia a better life. At age 3, Julia is enrolled in Head Start, a pre-kindergarten ...

For the first time in U.S. history, more than half of the babies born in the country are nonwhite. The data also shows that almost half of all young children are from minority groups, which means the next generation of Americans will be far more diverse than today. Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen sees ...

When you’re a writer, being pitched stories inspired by various conspiracy theories by friends, family and total strangers, becomes a fact of life. So does ignoring most of them. So when I first began hearing murmurs that there was much more to the political battle over contraception than simply the usual culprits — sexism, misogyny ...

CorpWatch by Pratap Chatterjee Two U.S. companies can be prosecuted for the alleged role of their employees in torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a U.S. federal court ruled last week. The companies are CACI of Arlington, Virginia, which provided the interrogators at the prison, and L-3/Titan of New York city, which provided translators at the ...

The shenanigans I witnessed at the Oklahoma State Republican Convention a few days ago ranged from petty, to absurd, to unjust, to downright violent, irreparably damaging the legitimacy of the Oklahoma Republican Party leadership and, by extension, the Republican presidential nominating process those leaders so brazenly abused. Over the past several days, social and news ...

Will Greece remain in the Euro? It’s a debate that’s flummoxing all of Europe at the moment. Leaders of the G8 industrialized nations agreed over the weekend that Greece should remain a member of the European Union, yet many, like Hungary’s finance minister, say openly that the only way forward is for Greece to leave ...

The betrayals come in many forms. Here are a few of the more outrageous, and destructive, examples: Evasion: Corporations suddenly stopped meeting their tax responsibilities While corporate profits have doubled to $1.9 trillion in less than ten years, the corporate income tax rate, which for thirty years hovered around the 20-25% level, suddenly dropped to 10% ...

Raging Moderate by Will Durst You don’t need a psychoanalyst to detect the latent theme running through the endorsements currently showering Mitt Romney like broken rain gutters pouring down on a concrete toadstool. And that premise is ennui. “Mitt? Really? Yeah. Okay. Whatever.” Makes tepid sound like a crazed bellow. With wild enthusiasm as MIA ...

There are more kinds of lies in politics than there are Inuit words for snow. And when Mitt Romney said the other day that he didn’t have a short list for VP, he was telling a “Washington lie,” a false statement meant to forestall further questions without actually deceiving anyone: “We really haven’t had a ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report is the latest evidence that, White House spin aside, the U.S. employment picture across all demographic spectrums is grim and getting grimmer. Last month, the economy produced a meager 115,000 jobs. And while some may believe the Obama administration’s fantasy that unemployment dropped from 8.2 to 8.1 ...

I stood behind the lotto lady at the convenience store one morning recently, waiting at the checkout to pay for my coffee and breakfast taco. I tried to beat her to the counter, but failed. She was taking forever. It doesn’t matter how many people lined up behind her, she was taking her time to ...

Coffee addicts rejoice! A new study shows the coffee, either caffeinated or decaffeinated, may actually help extend the lives of people who drink it. This is good news for cartoonists, since our great ideas are fueled by bottomless cups of joe! Here are five funny coffee cartoon that are bound to make you chuckle…

Mike Peters is one of the all time greatest cartoonists – here he is giving the commencement address at his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis.  Watch Mike, he’s fun:  

Another week, another plutocrat steps into the spotlight in the pursuit of possessing their very own American politician. This time it was Joe Ricketts (what a perfect name for a gazillionaire infecting our political system with his financial clout), founder of brokerage house TD Ameritrade and owner of the Chicago Cubs. This past Tuesday, Ricketts ...

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.

It’s campaign season again, and that means controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back in the news. Back in 2008, sermons by Obama’s Chicago pastor created a media firestorm during the Iowa primaries, with Wright screaming, “Goddamn America!” Obama cut ties with Wright following the controversy, but now the outspoken reverend is back with new allegations ...

Making Sense, by Michael Reagan Sheep and chickens. That’s what America’s greatest corporations have become. Whether it’s in California or nationally, it’s the same sad story. America’s best and biggest companies — the banks, the energy corporations, the computer giants — are refusing to stand up to the bully governments in Sacramento and D.C. The ...

If Julia Louis-Dreyfus can be “Veep,” then why not Hillary Clinton? The notion has been kicked around in the media for more than a year, and pooh-poohed by both the secretary of state herself and the Obama campaign, but as the 2012 race heats up the possibility of an Obama-Clinton ticket is likely to be ...

CorpWatch by Pratap Chatterjee War has been declared on Enbridge, a Canadian oil company, by a chief from the Nadleh Whut’en in British Columbia. Chief Martin Louie was attending the company annual general meeting in Toronto where he spoke out Wednesday against the environmental impact of the company’s tar sands operations. “How far are they willing ...

The interest rate on federal Stafford Loans is a phony political issue. The 6.8 percent interest rate was slashed – at taxpayer expense – to 3.4 percent last year. Now Obama and Democrats in Congress are acting as if the rate returning to its usual level is an economic catastrophe for students. It isn’t. We’re ...

Tyrades! By Danny Tyree “Sugar in the morning/Sugar in the evening/Sugar at suppertime…” My late father would often burst into those lyrics from the 1958 McGuire Sisters hit “Sugartime.” Little did he know it was a recipe for asking, “Morning — that’s the one where the sun is RISING, right?” Yes, a new UCLA study ...

The media have given Mitt Romney a pass he does not deserve on his explanation for bullying gay boarding school classmates as an 18-year-old senior. Romney was fortunate that the bullying story broke in the wake of President Obama’s declaration of support for same-sex marriage, which the media concluded was the bigger political story and ...

California is my home state, and for years our state legislature has been kicking the budget deficit 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 ...