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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, ...
Iranian Cartoonist Sentenced to 25 Lashings
By Daryl Cagle on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
There is disturbing news to report from Iran, where cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh has been sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a member of parliament wearing a football jersey. That’s right – he’s going to be whipped for drawing a cartoon. While it’s nothing new for repressive governments to crack down on press freedoms and punish cartoonists, ...
Happy Birthday to American Editorial Cartooning
By Daryl Cagle on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
On this day back in 1754, Benjamin Franklin’s now-famous “Join or Die” woodcut cartoon was first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper. The cartoon, which showed a snaked severed into eight segments each representing a British American colony or region, was meant to inspire unity among the colonies before the French and Indian War. Later, ...
Some Certainties about the 2012 Election
By Joe Gandelman on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman Who needs TV with its bad acting when we can watch the Oval Office race between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney? The overheated rhetoric and overdramatized outrage on each side is now in full gear. Suspense is injected by perpetually see-sawing polls: the latest two show ...
He-Man Woman Haters Club
By Michael Kindt on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Mitt Romney has an uphill battle. Unseating a sitting president is difficult for any candidate. The snake you know is always better than the snake you don’t. Plus, Mitt is GOP in 2012. A new Washington Post poll is out showing Obama ahead in the the swing state of Virginia 51 percent to 44 percent. ...
America’s Lost Labor Force
By David Bossie on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
As the White House and its friends in the liberal media crowed about the unemployment rate moving ever so slightly down to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent in April, the real story was how the American labor force shrunk to 63.6 percent.  This means that 88,419,000 Americans are sitting on the sidelines, not even looking ...
North Carolina’s Gay Marriage Ban
By Daryl Cagle on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Today voters in North Carolina’s primary get to decide whether to approve a state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions. John Cole, the teriffic staff cartoonist for the Scranton Times-Tribune, spent years drawing cartoons about North Carolina’s wacky political scene for the Durham Herald-Sun. Even though he moved to Pennsylvania, he still draws ...
Obamacare’s Medicare Scam
By Susan Brown on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
America’s senior citizens deserve to enjoy their golden years in security rather than be faced with the uncertainty of having their beloved Medicare benefits yanked away thanks to provisions within the Democratic Party’s darling, Obamacare. Mathematicians Congressional Democrats are not. Democrats failed to inform seniors nearly half of Obamacare’s cost would be funded initially by ...
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