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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama shifts his attention and Gabrielle Giffords’ gun control group gears up to go head to head with the NRA.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 9, 2013
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Much to the likely chagrin of the Minnesota congresswoman—who once claimed that gay couples could wed, but only to members of the opposite sex—her home state appears poised to become the latest to legalize same-sex marriage.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including three whistle-blowers testify before a House panel on September’s attacks in Benghazi and Michele Bachmann sees more trouble related to her 2012 presidential campaign.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 8, 2013
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An advertising boycott enacted in the wake of Rush Limbaugh’s controversial “slut” comment about Sandra Fluke last year appears to be working.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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The senator’s first piece of stand-alone legislation is aimed at giving students who take out federally subsidized loans the same interest rate the big banks get when they borrow from the government. Student loans rates are set to go up to 6.8 percent July 1. Meantime, the big banks responsible for plunging the economy into a recession a few short years ago pay just 0.75 percent
Posted on May 8, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — “I want to publicly acknowledge God’s role in all of this,” declared a victorious Mark Sanford as he celebrated an unlikely political rebirth Tuesday night with a sermon praising the supreme being and the many “angels” who helped the once-disgraced former governor along the way.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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Yes, the same Mark Sanford who as governor of South Carolina in 2009 blew off Father’s Day for a love jaunt to Argentina just persuaded the state’s Bible Belt voters to give him another chance.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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A new study paints a sobering picture of the negative consequences austerity is having on the U.S. economy (and shows once more that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a consistent voice against austerity, is right).
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 7, 2013
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A chemist tried to swap orange juice bottles with containers filled with rubbing alcohol at a coffee shop in San Jose, Calif.; Republicans’ insistence on hampering immigration reform thanks to a provision concerning gay immigrants is utter stupidity; meanwhile, people with health insurance are going bankrupt thanks to medical costs, but Obamacare isn’t the answer. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the House’s 37th attempt to appeal Obamacare, and George Takei has some suggestions on how to deal with anti-gay hypocrites.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama got roughed up by the pundit class last week. The question is what lessons he draws from the going-over.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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In his latest column for The New York Times, the Nobel Prize-winning economists notes that before President Obama took office in 2009, seven of the 10 previous presidents left the Oval Office with debt ratios lower than when they entered it. The three who did not: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
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By Chris Hedges—The use of vast global resources against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks presages a dystopian world where anyone who exposes corruption, lies and crimes of power will be branded a terrorist.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Posted on May 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Bill Maher suggests a new rule for those who want to strip away constitutional rights to ensure “justice” and former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gets a well-deserved honor.
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
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The richest Americans made trillions during the so-called economic recovery from 2009 to 2011, while most everyone else’s net worth dropped, according to a recent study. “It’s as if the entire economic recovery is going into the pockets of the rich,” Les Leopold writes at AlterNet. “And that’s no accident.”
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 3, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 3, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama had the opportunity this week to make an irresponsible Congress face the consequences of its own dumb actions. For reasons I cannot fathom, he took a pass.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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Now that Wall Street has managed to neuter and delay the modest reforms passed by Congress, there is more political momentum to pass stricter financial regulations.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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When female writers disappeared from the Wikipedia heading “American novelists,” more than a few eyebrows were raised; Pvt. Bradley Manning being revoked as grand marshal of the San Francisco Gay Pride parade proves that the military-industrial complex rules all; meanwhile, another price-fixing scandal reminiscent of Libor is about to explode. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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