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By James Baldwin
By D. T. Max
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — You could say that a filibuster occurs when a senator drones on and on. The problem with the U.S. Senate was that there were too few senators speaking about drones this week.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the House votes to avoid a government shutdown and Gabrielle Giffords makes a plea for gun control at the place where she was shot two years ago.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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The Walton family, better known as the Walmart heirs, have invested millions in trying to privatize Los Angeles public schools; perhaps the true culprit of the sequester is President Obama; meanwhile, the former pope’s resignation can be seen as a sound surrender rather than a cowardly abdication. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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AP/Mike Groll
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., said they would like to see the minimum wage hiked even higher than what they have proposed, but “We want it to pass through Congress.”
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major development in the confirmation hearing of John Brennan and Jeb Bush flip-flops on immigration reform once more.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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A bizarre provision of the House Republicans’ short-term budget bill would strip ACORN of all federal funds even though 1) the government already withdrew all federal money from the organization and 2) the group no longer exists.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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On his program Monday night, Jon Stewart said that the sequester, which took effect Friday, was like an “autoerotic asphyxiation” for Congress.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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By Robert Reich — I’d make clear to the American people that they made a choice in 2012 but that right-wing House Republicans have been blocking that choice, and the only way to implement that choice is for Congress to pass the Build America’s Future Act.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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If President Obama follows the example of Gov. Jerry Brown in California, he can use devastating budget cuts to deal conservatives a crushing blow, argues David Sirota.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Braced for automatic budget cuts that he described as “dumb” and painful, the president said Friday, “I’m not a dictator” and “if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say ‘I need to go to catch a plane,’ I can’t have Secret Service block the doorway, right?”
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Regardless of the fact that large numbers of Americans believe the best way to fix the budget crisis is to tax the wealthy and profitable corporations, Sen. Bernie Sanders says, $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts are taking effect Friday.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Indebted America is in danger of turning into destitute Greece, or so congressional Republicans and conservative commentators have been warning us for years now. For many reasons, this is an absurd comparison—but it may not always be quite so ridiculous if Washington’s advocates of austerity get their way.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Office of the Speaker of the House/Bryant Avondoglio
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Ever since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have made journeys to the fiscal brink as commonplace as summertime visits to the beach or the ballpark.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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AP/Richard Drew
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By William Pfaff — A Gallup poll issued this month says that 99 percent of the American public now has become convinced that Iran’s civilian nuclear program will threaten “the vital interests of the United States in the next ten years.” Eighty-three percent say this will be “a critical threat.” Why?
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
Here we go again. A sudden surge in the price of gasoline and heating oil is followed by reported expressions of frustrated despair by hard-pressed consumers in the midst of silence from the oil companies and abdication of responsibility by the elected and appointed officials of federal and state governments.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — Now that an African-American president of the United States is the point person on the national debate about immigration, it’s time that the black perspective on the matter be examined.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Chris Christie being omitted from a major conservative event and Stephen Colbert breaks character to make his first political endorsement.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — A not-so-small miracle is unfolding before our eyes. After nearly two decades in which established opinion insisted that it would never again be possible to pass sensible regulations of firearms, the unthinkable is on the verge of happening.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The 80-year-old political satirist came out of retirement in August when he heard that a group of Republican congressmen had drunkenly gamboled—at least one of them in the nude—in the Sea of Galilee.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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DOD/Cherie Cullen
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The $400 billion boondoggle known as the Joint Strike Fighter suffered another setback Friday when the Pentagon grounded the first 51 of 2,400 desired jets.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The standoff over the package of budget cuts known as “the sequester” is the dumbest, most self-defeating fight between President Obama and Republicans in Congress since ... let’s see, since the last dumb, self-defeating fight less than two months ago.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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