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1. over 2 years ago on Mike Luckovich

   Cartoon makes sense. Benedict Arnold was a leading conservative at the time.

2. over 2 years ago on Michael Ramirez

   It was the Right (conservatives) who were all in favor of slavery and all the racial animosity and discrimination that followed. What political party they belonged to is immaterial because political affiliations can change at any time. What cannot change is who you are and what you stand for. Iff you don’t believe me, start some thinking.

3. over 2 years ago on Michael Ramirez

   The Left takes responsibility for what it (not “they”) has actually done, not what the Right accuses it of doing.

   look at what the Left has done:

   It secured our independence from Great Britain. It gathered the 13 former colonies into one nation. It wrote the nation a Constitution that a few other nations try to copy. It ended the scourge of slavery and kept the nation whole when the Right tried to destroy it. It saved the world from tyranny by leading the way to victory in WWI and WWII. It rebuilt Nazi Germany, imperial Japan and fascist Italy into thriving democracies after defeating them in war. It put an end to economic depressions every 20 to 30 years. It combatted racial discrimination. It extended protection of rights to all Americans. It has never rested from protecting the nation from the destructive, authoritarian Right.

   The Left does not shy away from what it has accomplished. And doesn’t gloat about it either.

4. almost 3 years ago on Steve Kelley

   Bill Nye worked at Boeing as an engineer; but was a science student of Carl Sagan at Cornell. His degree is mechanical engineering, but he has a strong background in science.

5. almost 3 years ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   And people who have to work to survive pay 100% of the payroll tax (in addition to what they pay in the income tax); the layabout idle rich pay nothing. Last I saw there was only one percentage point difference in money generated by the two taxes.

6. almost 3 years ago on Mike Luckovich

   Russia was backward because the tsars saw that monarchies in the west were being replaced by republics (some democratic) and recognized they could be caught up in the transformation as it moved eastward. So they attempted to remove all things western from their society; especially literature where some people got the crazy idea that democracy was better than totalitarianism. When the Bolsheviks took over they found a society a couple centuries behind the west. They also saw capitalism of the West posing the same threat to their system that republics posed for the tsarist monarchy.

7. almost 3 years ago on Garfield

   But which Jesus? There are two of them; Jesus the Christ and Jesus the Antichrist. Both are out there. Racists, warmongers and other phony Christians follow the Antichrist. The true Jesus said “many will come in my name” and only mislead you. “Do not follow them.”

8. almost 3 years ago on Dog Eat Doug

   Settlers in Oregon were smart enough to camp over the winter along the Deschutes River in Central Oregon before tackling the cascade Mountains in the spring. Further proof that Oregonians are smarter than Californians.

9. almost 3 years ago on Henry Payne

   Republicans are saying it when they accuse the Democratic Party of proposing it. See the Payne cartoon to understand how Republicans are saying it.

10. almost 3 years ago on Mike Luckovich

    The “why” is that the Russian people have never known any system of government except totalitarianism. From Rurik to Putin (9th century to 21st century) it has been one authoritarian after another.

    The Bolsheviks did manage to replace a totalitarianism monarchy with a republic with totalitarianism “values.” The Russian people may some day introduce democratic principles and evolve into something respectable. Our democracy came about through evolution in the United Kingdom as it slowly removed authority from the monarchs and transferred it to the people.