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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
Each year hundreds of billions of dollars in federal government contracts, grants, leaseholds and licenses are awarded to corporations. Taxpayers should be able to easily access clear and concise information on how their tax dollars are being spent by the government at all levels.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when tea partyers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They’ve basically shut Congress down.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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The 179,000 jobs created in May and boasted about by the Obama administration are no more than “the usual lowly paid non-exportable domestic service jobs—the jobs of a third world country,” former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts writes.
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask whether there is any privacy left after revelations that National Security Agency programs are collecting data about citizens’ daily communications.
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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By Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama defended the government’s massive surveillance programs Friday, saying they “help us prevent terrorist attacks.”
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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Caught in the act of secretly spying on millions of Americans, the president is trying to minimize the damage done to his public reputation, including among his most devoted supporters.
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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In a scathing editorial, the Gray Lady says Barack Obama’s presidency, which once promised unprecedented transparency, is instead “proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it.”
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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The National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon via an order that requires the company to hand over the records on an “ongoing, daily basis,” Glenn Greenwald reports in The Guardian.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is rapidly approaching, commemorating the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What is President Obama fighting for? What is the point of his second term?
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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One of the most trusted names in polling has conducted a thorough examination of its formula and methodology to try to figure out why it was so sure Mitt Romney would win the 2012 presidential election.
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a gathering of conservatives in Los Angeles late last month that he “didn’t feel competent” to answer a question about whether President Obama had switched sides in the war on terror, a newly uncovered video reveals.
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 3, 2013
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Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning that interviews with workers from the IRS’ Cincinnati office revealed that the order to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status likely came from Washington.
Posted on Jun 2, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 2, 2013
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By Bill Boyarsky — I’m not surprised that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have been waging war on the news media. They and other members of the Obama team have always struck me as elitists who don’t think really intelligent or worthwhile people would go into journalism.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Let’s state this very simply, so everybody will understand. The notion that Barack Obama is “Nixonian”—or that his administration’s recent troubles bear any resemblance to “Watergate”—is the biggest media lie since the phony “Whitewater scandal” crested during the Clinton presidency.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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As a share of national income, federal spending peaked during the Reagan administration; spending has increased only half as fast under President Obama as under President Bush; and declining revenues, not rising spending, accounts for the swelling federal deficit overseen by the Bush and Obama administrations.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 31, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why prominent news outlets are declining an invitation to meet with Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama’s becoming the target of yet another letter possibly laced with the deadly poison ricin.
Posted on May 30, 2013
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By Robert Reich — It’s not that most Americans have been living beyond our means, but our means haven’t kept up because of widening inequality.
Posted on May 30, 2013
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The hunger strike involving more than 100 captives at Guantanamo Bay prison has worsened since Barack Obama promised action in his counterterrorism speech last week.
Posted on May 30, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 30, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the likely next head of the FBI is revealed and a governor up for re-election in 2014 gets set to switch political parties this week.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — One cyberactivist’s federal case wrapped up this week, and another’s is set to begin. While these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who were charged, it is the growing menace of government and corporate secrecy that should be on trial.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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By William Pfaff — China certainly is no military threat to the continental United States, or to its security, economy or major national interests.
Posted on May 28, 2013
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By Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch —
Upon succeeding to the presidency in 2009, Barack Obama junked Bush’s formulation of the “Global War on Terror” without fanfare. Yet if the appellation went away, the conflict itself, shorn of identifying marks, continued.
Posted on May 28, 2013
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons,El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on May 28, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on May 28, 2013
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