Posts tagged "Liberty"
Clinging To Power
Sunday, November 22, 2020
It’s been about two weeks since one demented, racist, serially–dishonest sexual predator defeated the other demented, racist, serially–dishonest sexual predator in the 2020 American Presidential election…
Fear and Loathing on Fox News
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Fox News is an addictive, mind-altering substance, used by its most dedicated viewers to escape reality to a paranoid, fantasy world… Their approach to the news is gonzo journalism’s perverted, evil twin. Instead of using the trappings of fiction to report the truth, Fox uses the trappings of truth to report fiction.
Undermining Liberty
Saturday, June 15, 2013
The idea of a database containing who-knows-how-much personal information communicated by who-knows-how-many people, with no individual or public oversight of its contents, is awe-inspiring, and terrifyingly Orwellian, whether it’s being kept in the name of “fighting terrorism” or “the free market.”
Hostage Situation
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Tags: 2nd Amendment, Congress, contest, gun control, gun rights, guns, handguns, hostage, Liberty, National Rifle Association, NRA, pistol, Pulitzer, Second Amendment
Mirage
Friday, November 30, 2012
Democracy in Egypt has seemingly been just on the horizon at many points over the last 50 or 60 years, but promised reforms have usually turned out, ultimately, to be illusory.
Political Auction Committees
Friday, May 11, 2012
Several weeks ago, I read an article discussing how much Mitt Romney had to spend per vote to win the Republican nomination, as well as the projected influence of Super PACs over the 2012 Presidential Election. The headline alone had me immediately reflecting on how the Presidency, as well as most significant political power, is more often bought than it is earned…
Police States of America
Saturday, November 19, 2011
This cartoon refers to the sudden and brutal crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, which began in the dead of night last week in cities across the nation, and I’ve read were coordinated by the Department of Homeland Security…
Liberty Leading the People
Saturday, February 12, 2011
I remembered the painting Liberty Leading the People, by French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, and thought that it’d adapt well to the modern subject matter, since there seemed to be some parallels between the French revolutions of the 18th/19th centuries, and the protests happening throughout the Middle East today…
David versus Goliath
Monday, December 13, 2010
Those who saw Bernie Sanders‘ 8 1/2 hour long speech on Friday explaining why the Obama/GOP tax cut “compromise” is bad will hopefully recognize my drawing of him, here…
Fox (News) Retakes (Hen) House!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The news that the GOP has retaken control of the House of Representatives is hardly surprising, and it’s not as if the Democrats were doing anything they were put there to do…