http://www.redplanetcartoons.com Political Cartoons and Weblog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Next cartoon: Monday, July 7. The Wall Street Journal: $4 Gasbags. Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress's recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate's carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall profits tax on oil companies, to new punishments for ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/06/27/postal-crazy/ Cinnamon Stillwell, San Francisco Chronicle: Islam in America's Public Schools, Education or Indoctrination?. With fatal terrorist attacks on the decline worldwide and al Qaeda apparently in disarray, it would seem a time for optimism in the global war on terrorism. But the war has simply shifted to a different arena. Islamists, ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/06/19/the-academic-jihad/ "This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." --Che Guevara ... The Los Angeles Times: Capitalizing on Che Guevara's Image. Snapped in March 1960, Alberto Korda's iconic image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara is possibly -- who's counting? -- the most-reproduced photograph in the world. ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/06/12/che-means-change/ Investor's Business Daily: Crude Scapegoats. It's now a cliche: fat-cat oilmen control our destiny by holding back supplies, letting prices soar, then pocketing the profits. But if any fat cats are to blame for the energy crisis, it's those on Capitol Hill. Funny how so few, especially our friends in the mainstream ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/06/06/drill-here-drill-now-pay-less/ Fox News: White House Challenges NBC News to Explain Whether Iraq Is in 'Civil War'. The White House is calling on NBC News to declare whether the network still believes Iraq is mired in a “civil war,” escalating a fight that began when NBC aired an interview with President Bush that ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/06/02/birdwatching/ Original chart via GatewayPundit. Investor's Business Daily: Drill, Coast Haste. Uncle Sam bans states from drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf mainly to protect the environment. Some 85% of the U.S. coastline is off-limits to energy production — including huge reserves off Florida's coast, which China is exploiting in Cuban ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/05/29/strangling-supply/ Associated Press: Pennsylvania soldier killed in Iraq is to get Medal of Honor. WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Friday that a Pennsylvania soldier who jumped on top of a grenade in Iraq and saved the lives of his comrades will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. The nation's highest military ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/05/25/memorial-day/ Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Jimmy Stewart's 100th Birthday Celebrated in Indiana. INDIANA -- When he returned home from World War II, Hollywood icon James Stewart was featured on the cover of Life magazine in front of the Indiana County courthouse. "In New York, Stewart refused a hero's welcome," the text read. "Instead, he drove ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/05/20/brigadier-general-james-stewart/ Then: Frédéric Bastiat, 1850 "The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/05/15/legal-plunder/ Bangkok Post: Red Cross Fair Bombed, Attacks in Southern Thailand Increase. Narathiwat - Militants launched a terrorist bomb attack at an annual charity event in Narathiwat province, setting off a bomb that wounded at least 12 persons, police said. The Sunday night attack occurred at the annual Thai Red Cross fair, held ... http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/05/12/the-thai-taliban/