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Based on the posts of an X account that bears the name of Dutch cartoonist Bart van Leeuwen, a profile picture of his face and short professional bio, one would think the Amsterdam-based artist is a staunch supporter of China and fierce critic of the United States. In one post, the account blasts what it…
My initial response to this Cathy Wilcox cartoon was negative, and I still think it is politically unfair, if only because she features Biden, Harris and Walz decrying violence when it is the Democrats who have attempted to limit the problem. There’s a great deal more hypocrisy in the “thoughts and prayers” approach of those…
We have met the enemy, and he is Will Rogers. Constant Readers know I dislike the Will Rogers approach, in which everything and everyone is corrupt and true wisdom comes in condemning it all. In this case, and at this moment, I’m disinclined to criticize Michael Ramirez (Creators) because I’m not sure he is promoting…
Clay Bennett (CTFP) points out what we all know, that Nikki Haley’s endorsement of Trump comes after a blistering primary campaign in which she repeatedly scored heavily against him. Haley said in speeches that he was unfit for office and that the GOP could not win with him as their candidate, and her supporters continued…
Bill Bramhall marks the descent of Rudy Giuliani from “America’s Mayor” to a ridiculous — and now heavily fined — laughingstock, and it’s hard to argue with his assessment that Rudy has largely done it to himself. It wasn’t a particularly drawn out descent. In 2000, Giuliani was still mayor of New York City and…
(Clay Bennett — CTFP) (Pickles — AMS) The problem with last-minute gifts is that, no matter how practical they are, there’s just a sense of so-what to them, more of obligation than of inspiration, and, as Earl’s daughter has realized, they often just get tossed in a drawer, unopened, unused, unwanted. Bennett is quite…
Several cartoonists have commented on the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony, in which the parents of murdered Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick — and some other officers’ and their families — accepted the medal, shook Sen. Charles Schumer’s hand, then walked past Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. IMHO, John Deering got it best. Ken Sicknick, Brian’s…
Taking the Cartoon Literally A reader is upset that an editorial cartoon took liberties with the pre-Nativity narrative. …the cartoonist completely twisted the biblical event of Joseph and Mary looking for a room in Bethlehem where Jesus would be born… He made them out to be unwelcome immigrants who should have been stopped by…