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By Peter Funt - September 3rd, 2010
So, how was your summer? I just finished a three-week trip, mostly by car, covering thousands of miles and sampling hundreds of opinions. I went to big cities — LA, Chicago, ...

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Glenn Beckons Return to What Nearly Destroyed Us

By Donna Brazile - September 3rd, 2010
They came in the tens of thousands to the “Restoring Honor” rally, believing every word conservative Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck told them about the rally being nonpolitical. A colleague overheard ...

West Still Fighting for the Ten

By Diana West - September 2nd, 2010
When President Obama said it was time to turn the page on Iraq, he should have also declared his intention to close the book on the lingering, festering injustices the ...

A Chainsaw is a Man’s Best Friend

By Charles Memminger - September 2nd, 2010
A friend and I were watching a home-improvement show in which a man and woman who never yell at each other put in an automatic garage door in about 37 ...

Who Defines Obama?

By Steve and Cokie Roberts - September 1st, 2010
Liberal critics were dead wrong in condemning Glenn Beck for holding a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. ...

Why the Fate of Education Reform Rides on the D.C. Mayoral Race

By The New Republic - September 1st, 2010
Journalists often annoyingly inflate events in their own backyards, fallaciously treating the local and provincial as mega-trends and national harbingers. Those of us who practice political journalism in Washington, D.C., ...

Beck’s Politi…Religious Rally Nothing New

By Gene Lyons - September 1st, 2010
Here we go again. A self-promoting TV evangelist has summoned yet another gullible throng to a Washington pep rally/prayer meeting, and everybody’s expected to ponder its vast significance. But what ...

The Yanks are Coming

By Phil Brennan - September 1st, 2010
That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming Ev’rywhere. So prepare, say a pray’r, Send the word, send the word to beware. We’ll be over, we’re coming over, And we won’t come back ...

It Makes No Sense To Oppose Use Of Embryonic Stem Cells

By Bonnie Erbe - September 1st, 2010
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth’s ruling this week halting federally funded stem cell research took me back immediately to a chilly era I have not revisited in some time: the ...

‘Doubts Grow’ Over NY Mosque Leader

By Deroy Murdock - September 1st, 2010
The New York mosque controversy focuses excessively on its proximity to the September 11 massacre site. The Park 51 Islamic center would stand 560 feet from there. Would moving it ...

Obama’s Indifference Spells Dems’ Disaster

By Donald Lambro - September 1st, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama came out to the White House Rose Garden Monday on his first full day back at work to devote a full four minutes to the sinking ...

A Burning Question: Extremists on 9/11

By Tina Dupuy - August 31st, 2010
In case you missed some of the lowlights of the 20th century, one charismatic pastor from Florida is trying to bring them back. Yes, Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville is ...

The Day of Beckoning

By Joe Gandelman - August 31st, 2010
Dear Diary: I’ve just watched part of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally and realize how wrong I’ve been!

Happy Labor Day

By Martha Randolph Carr - August 31st, 2010
It’s the end of summer and time once again to celebrate the American workforce. The timing seems especially appropriate with the sluggish recovery on everyone’s minds as we enter the ...

Thanks for the Reminder, Glenn

By Michael Reagan - August 30th, 2010
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan Glenn Beck’s remarkable rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday was a wake-up call for his beloved America. This nation, he reminded us, is ...

No Bigots, No Racists, Just Americans at Glenn Beck Rally

By Agnes Cross-White - August 30th, 2010
They came from Alabama, from Maine, New York, Florida and Virginia; from cities and towns and hamlets. They came on buses, on trains, on planes and by car. They were white people, ...

One Born Every Minute

By Tom Purcell - August 30th, 2010
It could have been worse. Some years ago, I had just spent the last of my savings to have a British convertible restored. I was a master then at buying high and ...

Creed Cred

By Will Durst - August 28th, 2010
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst A few years ago anybody who spoke disparagingly of the president of the United States was immediately labeled a traitor and accused of coddling the terrorists ...

Bush Had It Right on Islam After 9/11

By Morton Kondracke - August 27th, 2010
Just days after the Twin Towers were destroyed in 2001, President George W. Bush set the tone that ought to govern U.S. attitudes in the New York mosque controversy today. While ...

No Slam-Dunk for the Mommy Wars

By Kathryn Lopez - August 27th, 2010
Could politics end the mommy wars? What mommy wars, you ask? One short answer is: the ones that make for awkward silences at cocktail parties when a woman is asked what ...

Obama’s Epic Failures

By Donald Lambro - August 27th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama returns from his August vacation with a growing pile of problems facing him on just about every front. The economy is in a nosedive, his party ...

Five Years after Hurricane Katrina, Let’s Remember Our Common Humanity

By Donna Brazile - August 27th, 2010
It’s been five years since Hurricane Katrina turned the streets of my beloved hometown of New Orleans into an array of devastating rivers. I was there a week after the ...

Do Not Tolerate the Intolerant

By Diana West - August 27th, 2010
“We are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week. “There is nowhere in the five ...

The Big C Squared

By Martha Randolph Carr - August 27th, 2010
Martha’s Big Adventure by Martha Randolph Carr Cancer is a very annoying disease especially when repeated. I recently had more skin removed after a suspicion of approaching melanoma on ...

How Many Deaths Before Obama Takes Border Security Seriously?

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown - August 27th, 2010
The shocking discovery of 72 murdered Hispanic migrants on a ranch just south of the U.S. border should be a wakeup call to all Americans that the security ...

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My Mexican Flag Cartoon: Stirring Up More Controversy in Mexico

By Daryl Cagle That’s my “scandalous” Mexican flag cartoon on the front page of today’s edition of Reforma (below right), the conservative national newspaper in Mexico. Below my cartoon is on the front ...

September 2, 2010

By Bob Englehart The first hurricane my family and I experienced after we moved here from Dayton, Ohio, was Hurricane Gloria in 1985. My first wife and I had split up the year ...

South Bend Tribune Lays Off Cartoonist Rogers

By Rob Tornoe Ron Rogers — who is believed to be the only African American working full-time as an editorial cartoonist at a daily newspaper –is losing his job at the South Bend ...

September 1, 2010

By Bob Englehart Back from five days in Indiana. I’m pleased to report that my father, the Iron Man, Robert Wayne Englehart Sr. is still swinging a golf club at 88 years old. ...

“Don’t Desecrate Our Flag”

By Daryl Cagle I’ve gotten some interesting, outraged e-mails and comments in response to my cartoon (above) which kills the eagle on the Mexican flag. Here are some examples from angry readers … Comment ...

RIP R.P. Overmyer

By Daryl Cagle I just received the sad news that Hollywood Dog cartoonist R.P. Overmyer died last week due to complications from diabetes. R.P. has worked as a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer in ...

Interesting Responses on Pakistan Aid Cartoon

By Daryl Cagle I got some interesting e-mail responses to my Pakistan aid cartoon below. The Taliban in Pakistan has threatened to attack western aid workers who are responding to help victims of floods ...

New Cartoonist from Turkey, Emre Ozdemir

By Daryl Cagle We’ve just added a new cartoonist to our site, Emre Ozdemir from Turkey where he draws for the Zaman and Today’s Zaman newspapers and does 4 to 5 cartoons per ...

New Syndicated Editorial Cartoonist - Randall Enos!

By Daryl Cagle It is rare that we see a great new editorial cartoonist enter our shrinking profession these days. I’m thrilled to announce that we have added longtime cartoon illustration great Randall Enos ...

Cultural Studies in Arizona

By Rob Tornoe Cagle Cartoons Syndicated Columnist Tina Dupuy wonders what the ban on ethnic studies in Arizona could mean for the state, especially in lieu of a recent crime spree involving fiancée-cousins: ...

The Director of National Intelligence Steals and Alters My Cartoon? What the Hell?

By Daryl Cagle The Washington Post reports that the new director of national intelligence, Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, “adapted” one of my cartoons for a presentation, altering it to show himself in ...

My New Crucifixion Cartoon

By Daryl Cagle Here’s my newest cartoon. My son thinks this one will make people mad, but I’ve drawn cartoons with crucifixion metaphors before, with little or no reaction. We’ll see. I thought ...

August 22, 2010

By Bob Englehart I’m taking one more summer vacation and that’s it until after the election in November. I’ll be out of the office until August 31. My cartoons will resume then. Where ...

Musical cartoonist chairs

By Steve Greenberg In the old days — really, just several years ago — the situation for an editorial cartoonist was generally fairly clear: he or she worked for this or that newspaper, ...

Video: Steven Breen and His Approach to Cartooning

By Rob Tornoe Cool video of Steven Breen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune (view his cartoons here), talking about his approach to drawing daily editorial cartoons. You also get ...

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