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"Paul Szep's pen is the editorial equivalent of a cruise missile" Matt Lauer, host of NBC's "Today Show"
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and chief editorial cartoonist at The Boston Globe from 1967 – 2001, Paul Szep has been described as a pioneering cartoonist with “scathing wit and a drawing style that turns editorial cartoons into pieces of art.” Awards include the international Thomas Nast Prize, two Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi prizes, a National Headliner Award and National Cartoonists Society awards for editorial and sport cartooning. He has also been a contributor to Golf Digest, authored a handful of books and is a Harvard University Fellow.
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“Class warfare”
President Obama’s new deficit-fighting plan would require Americans earning more than $1 million a year to pay at least the same tax rate as middle-class households, delivering $3.2 trillion in budget savings over the next decade. Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said the plan amounted to “class warfare”.
Obama channeling FDR?
President Obama’s much-anticipated jobs plan unveiled on Sept. 8 carried echoes of the New Deal work-relief programs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration in the 1930s. He spoke of public works construction to stimulate the economy and spur future investment. He proposed $90 billion to renovate schools, repair bridges and roads and to fund an infrastructure bank. [...]
Ron Paul
Eccentric. Unpragmatic. Quixotic. Those are the kinder words tossed around recently to describe Texas Congressman Ron Paul, whose libertarian campaign kicked off a new nationwide initiative on Sept. 8 to organize and mobilize young voters, a group that offered him strong support four years ago. The Boston Globe’s Garrett Quinn says he now has a [...]
Republicans poised as Obama readies jobs plan
In a much-anticipated and hotly hyped address on Sept. 8, President Barack Obama expects to outline proposals to revive the flat-lining U.S. economy, in part by renewing an existing payroll tax cut, new spending on school renovation and job training
“Fed Up”
Rick Perry’s book, “Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington”, may come back to haunt him. Released on Nov. 15 last year, the book condemns Social Security as “a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal”, climate change as “all one contrived phony mess” and the Supreme Court as nine unelected [...]
Golf in America: Szep and the legend of Jim Furyks’ putter
The Golf Channel’s TV segment: Szep and the legend of Furyks $11 million putter For the full story, click here
Obama & the EPA
President Obama abandoned on Sept. 1 a contentious new air pollution rule, buoying business interests that had lobbied heavily against it, angering environmentalists who called the move a betrayal and unnerving his own top environmental regulators.
Labor unions want Obama to be bolder
Labor Boss Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, appears to be losing patience with Obama. The President, according to Trumka, has been doing “little nibbly things around the edge that aren’t going to make a difference and aren’t going to solve the problem” with the economy.