AltWeeklies Wire
Cartoon: In the Future ...new
In the future, people who live in states without government healthcare will make a mad dash for the border if they get insured.
Tags: health care
Why Hasn't Obama Abrogated Bush's Controversial Executive Orders?
Simply put, no one man -- not even a nice, articulate, charismatic one -- ought to claim the right to suspend a person's constitutional rights. Not in America. Certainly no one man -- not even a young, handsome, likeable one -- should be able to have anyone he wants whacked.
Animated Cartoon: One Nation, Two Systems of Justicenew
George W. Bush is now enjoying his ninth month of retirement -- and there isn't even the slightest interest in holding him accountable, much less throwing him in prison.
Tags: George W. Bush
Drop the Drones: Remote Attacks Inflame Afghan Anti-Americanism
To Afghans on the ground, drones symbolize American callousness and project a smug sense of superiority -- because they protect us at the Afghans' expense.
The Afghan War: Too Illegit to Quit
Eight years. We've been in Afghanistan longer than any other war in American history. The party of the president who invaded Afghanistan has been repudiated at the polls. Yet we still haven't altered the flawed strategy that allowed uneducated tribesmen with outdated weapons to defeat us year after year.
Cartoon: Corporate Personhoodnew
Corporations are asking the US Supreme Court to declare them persons, with the same civil rights as people. What if they get their way?
Tags: Supreme Court, corporations
Animated Cartoon: Git-Mo Help
President Obama says he can't close Guantanamo because he doesn't know where to send the detainees. How about a free-market solution to this conundrum: the Gitmo Helpers servant service!
Cartoon: Gitmo High Schoolnew
The Obama Administration is refusing to release detainees it knows are innocent -- because they are innocent.
Obama is More Hoover than FDR
It's 1933. This time, however, Hoover got reelected. Can we hold out until 1937 for a president who understands that we need 10 million new jobs, and that we need them yesterday?
Cartoon: It's Up to the Private Sectornew
So there won't be meaningful health care reform. Thankfully, there's still the private sector.
Cartoon: Revenge of the Nerdsnew
A study shows that NFL players are 19 times more likely to have their brains pulverized than other Americans.
Cartoon: Roman Polanski to the Rescuenew
Want liberals and feminists to defend you for raping a child? Make some great movies.
Tags: rape, Roman Polanski
Build Stuff ... Then Leave Afghanistan
Now it's time to fight the war for hearts and minds the way it ought to have been done from the start -- instead of hostile troops, Afghanistan needs civil engineers.
