by John L Micek

Big freeze: Top ten cartoons of the week

Let it snow? While I'm here enjoy the warm weather in California, most of the eastern U.S. has been buried under the snow for going on a week. Our most-reprinted cartoon this week is a funny one by John Darkow, employing Punxsutawney Phil in an attem..

January 29, 2026

Minnesota church invaders deserve the FACE Act

A few years ago, I had to do some research into the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act, colloquially known as FACE. Every pro-lifer in the country knows about this law, signed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton to protect abortion clinics fro..

Go fish

I love being out on the water and hate fishing. Or maybe it’s the other way around. A colleague of mine invited me to go out on a lake and try our luck at catching fish. I categorically refused. It’s not that I hate fish. I love fish, especially..

January 28, 2026

Trump’s game for names

President Trump deserves credit for bravely having himself added to the outdated and, frankly, boring name of the venue previously known as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Considering that Mr. Trump single-handedly saved the cent..

Are you satisfied with your height? 

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “There was shrinkage! Shrinkage!” - George Costanza For years, my various physicians let me skate by. I would dutifully (if trepidatiously) hop onto the scales for my weight assessment, but I was allowed to fudge on my Bo..

Trump’s Minneapolis carnage

It's been less than a week since federal agents murdered Alex Pretti, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans. This was the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis..

January 27, 2026

The final report Trump is quietly trying to bury

Given what’s going on in Minnesota - another day, another ICE execution - it’s understandable few have noticed the latest authoritarian move to suppress vital information and deny us the right to judge it for ourselves. I want to revisit a chain..

January 26, 2026

No snow day for NYC kids

When I was a kid in the 1970s, no words broadcast on KDKA radio were sweeter than: “Bethel Park School District — closed.” The moment we heard them, we threw on our snow gear and headed for the sled slopes, determined to squeeze every free sec..

Landing Greenland: Top ten cartoons of the week

Thank goodness we're not going to invade Greenland. Now that's a sentence I never thought I'd have to write. At Davos, President Trump took military action off the table in his quixotic quest to take Greenland from Denmark. After all his bluster, the..

January 22, 2026

The Supreme Court needs to rein in California

It’s hard to have sympathy for people who choose to live in California. It’s their business, after all, if they want to be domiciled in a state where the taxes are crushing, the price of gasoline is out of sight, and the state government is teet..

Dirt, cheap

When my neighbor told me he could transform garbage into gold, I laughed. My neighbor is no alchemist. He didn’t even pass high school chemistry. The idea that he could make hamburger scraps into precious metals was hilarious, even to a seasoned j..

Remembering MLK should go well beyond a day

As has been customary for decades, millions of Americans celebrated the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earlier this week. But his legacy goes well beyond a single day. Forty years ago, after one of the longest legislative battles in i..

January 21, 2026

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