Pat Oliphant’s last political cartoon is the best ever. Still available on Go comics.In the 1950s Walt Kelly in Pogo Possum began making fun of the Fascist Senator Joseph McCarthy, powerful leader of the House Committee of Un-American Activities. That was the beginning of a slow decline in power for the Senator.That era added the phrase ‘under god’ to the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. We all walked around with our Gideon New Testaments in our shirt pockets. We were afraid not to. The principle would do a random pocket check.
Pat Oliphant’s last political cartoon is the best ever. Still available on Go comics.In the 1950s Walt Kelly in Pogo Possum began making fun of the Fascist Senator Joseph McCarthy, powerful leader of the House Committee of Un-American Activities. That was the beginning of a slow decline in power for the Senator.That era added the phrase ‘under god’ to the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. We all walked around with our Gideon New Testaments in our shirt pockets. We were afraid not to. The principle would do a random pocket check.