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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 27, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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“Global warming is a total hoax. And I’ll tell you how I know. Because it’s cold, today, where I live. That’s jus’ science,” Stewart satirically said on his program Wednesday night.
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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Here’s some more backward thinking from the political party that introduced terms such as “legitimate rape,” “forcible rape,” “easy rape” and “enjoyable rape” into the national lexicon.
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a victory for women in the military and why John Boehner thinks President Obama is out to “annihilate” the GOP.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency, don’t look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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The covering over a painting of a slave performing fellatio on a white man has been removed at the Newark Public Library after much controversy; foreign universities are struggling to compete with elite American ones in the online education market; meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the National Counterterrorism Center has been given massive amounts of authority to surveil Americans via datasets. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Reflect for a moment: A black man stood on the Capitol steps and took the oath of office as president of the United States. For the second time. Meaning that voters not only elected him once—which could be a fluke, a blip, an aberration, a cosmic accident—but turned around and did it again.
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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By Robert Kuttner —
President Obama seems to grasp that he has a lot more power to move public opinion than he used in his first term. He also understands that most of the GOP’s positions on the issues are unpopular with the public, divisive within the Republican Party and just plain bad policy. So will he maximize his advantage?
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s promise on climate change and Paul Ryan gets a less than favorable response on Inauguration Day.
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including sore loser Rick Santorum’s tough talk for the president and why the Republicans’ debt ceiling proposal may be a constitutional fail.
Posted on Jan 20, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The progressive plot to save representative democracy, China’s retirement bomb, Republican junk science, and doping in sports.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The progressive plot to save representative democracy, China’s retirement bomb, Republican junk science, and doping in sports.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Massachusetts’ U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann must be held accountable for their actions during their prosecution of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz; in China, a father hired online “assassins” to kill his son’s avatar in an attempt to save his real life; meanwhile, the U.S. is giving the Afghan government a fleet of drones. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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By Joe Conason — A prolonged confrontation over the nation’s debt ceiling—unlike the “fiscal cliff,” which provoked many scary headlines—could truly be grave for both America and the world.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Michelle Obama’s social media foray and word on Karl Rove’s future at Fox News.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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Election season is well and truly over, but that’s not stopping some in the Republican Party from continuing their campaign of saying crazy misogynist things showing how out of touch they are with issues pertaining to women and their bodies.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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President Obama launched the country’s biggest push on gun control in decades Wednesday, rolling out wide-ranging plans that include 23 executive actions.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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By Robert Reich — If the neocons in the GOP who brought us the Iraq War and conjured up “weapons of mass destruction” to justify it are against Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, the former Republican senator gets bonus points in my book.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our government, in Obama’s words, can “stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis.”
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including some good news for George H.W. Bush and Justice Clarence Thomas breaks his silence in the Supreme Court.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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By Robert Reich — A week before his inaugural, Obama says he won’t negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt limit. But the president’s strategy depends on there being enough sane voices left in the GOP to influence others. That’s far from clear.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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The U.S. Army presence is rapidly increasing in Africa, especially in countries with alleged ties to al-Qaida; according to Fox News, teaching children algebra is just another liberal ploy; meanwhile, some researchers have started studying the effects of the “natural experiment” resulting from China’s one-child policy. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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By Bill Blum — According to the Obama administration, there is nothing the president can do on his own to raise the ceiling or maneuver around it. As much as some of us may disagree, Obama is correct. Here’s why.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jan 12, 2013
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Compared with people in other affluent countries, Americans are the least healthy and most likely to die young; according to televangelist Pat Robertson, “awful looking” women are destroying modern day marriage; meanwhile, America’s richest citizens are hoarding $3 trillion a year (thrice our deficit) by avoiding taxes. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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