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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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Category Archives: U.S. Politics
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 [...]
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.
Bachmann
About two-thirds of Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachman’s statements PolitiFact have checked have been judged either false or “pants on fire,” according to Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Website that fact-checks statements by politicians and other public figures. “Her issue with accuracy has become I think an important aspect of her campaign,” [...]
In Congress, sliding support
According to a Gallup Aug. 11-14 poll, the approval rating for Congress is down to a woeful 13 percent, tying a historic low.
The cost of war
A study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies estimates that the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have cost 225,000 lives and up to $4 trillion in U.S. spending.
Pentagon budget cuts?
Defense spending has ballooned since 2000, jumping from $294 billion to roughly $700 billion a year, or 20 percent of the entire federal budget. The Pentagon was to start paring that back, cutting $78 billion in spending over five years, but that was until bombs starting raining over Libya. The confrontation with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has [...]