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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
By Mark Steyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi
PREFACE
By Allen Forkum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
November 2004 to October 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
CARTOON JIHAD
The C&F Mohammed Cartoons by Allen Forkum
Publish or Perish by Robert Tracinski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
THE AHMADINEJAD CODE

The Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
GROUND ZERO
The 9/11 Memorial Battle by Allen Forkum
The Great Ground Zero Heist by Debra Burlingame . . . .173
COVERS
Illustrations for The Intellectual Activist magazine
and AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report newspapers . . . . .181
CARICATURES
By John Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
BUSTER McNUTT
Gag cartoons for the Spare Parts humor column . . . . . . . . .195
MISCELLANEOUS
Projects for ourselves and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
INTERVIEW
Cox & Forkum interview Cox & Forkum . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
JOHN’S SKETCHBOOK
Pages from John’s June 2005 to April 2006 sketchbook . . . .221
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233
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INTRODUCTION
Jokes are no laughing matter these days, avuncular figure in star-spangled cutaway Exorcism movie. And their cartoons on
not if you’re a Danish cartoonist. It never coat of a thousand small-town Fourth of the wretchedness of the proposed 9/11
occurred to me that it would seem entirely July parades, but instead a muscle-bound memorials in New York and elsewhere are
normal to switch on the radio and hear warrior with biceps to rival Rosie the an eloquent comment on a society whose
headlines like: Riveter’s. You can find him on page 26 urge to apologize for itself is now so reflex-
and page 129 in this new collection, and ive it taints and dishonors even the
“The Danish cartoon death toll is now up sorely put upon in the latter. And just as grimmest day in modern history. The
to nine.” Rosie was an iconic image from the war of superb cartoon on page 177 is especially
60 years ago, it would be heartening if noteworthy: the lobby of the proposed
And it only climbed from there. But for C&F’s Uncle Sam were to become simi- International Freedom Center at Ground
that very reason cartoons, gags, laughs are larly emblematic this time around. Zero offers signs indicating the way to
all the more important. The demand “9/11 Finger-Painting” and “9/11 Finger-
from, ahem, certain groups that no jokes After I wrote about my trip to the US Pointing.” This wonderfully distills the
can be made about them, that they can camp at Guantanamo in late 2006, Cox & two default modes of the age: the outright
only be taken extra-super-duper mega- Forkum republished their cartoon from self-loathing, and the slyer but just as
seriously is not a peripheral matter but two years earlier showing a Gitmo inmate debilitating sappy happy-faced banality of
central to a free society. If you’re relaxing under a parasol while reading The cultural relativism. Most of us no longer
excluded—or demand to be excluded— Joy Of Jihad (page 8). Obviously, US have any expectations of a memorial that
from the jokes a society tells about itself, troops do not literally serve cocktails to Al will truly honor those who died that day,
you can never truly be part of that society: Qaeda detainees, but the cartoon never- and Americans who still value the old
in the end any meaningful assimilation theless captures the essential truth of what virtues will find more truth in these car-
requires you to be part of the joke. I saw with my own eyes: a world in which toons than in anything likely to arise from
detainees are served fresh-baked Ramadan the rubble of lower Manhattan.
Many of us discovered Cox & Forkum in pastries, interrogated in a La-Z-Boy reclin-
the days after September 11th. It was a er, and in the event that someone is so cul- These are tough times. But that’s all the
strange time. After cartoonists had done turally insensitive as to run up, say, a US more reason to be grateful to those who
their initial muted-in-sorrow Statue-of- flag at the facility it will be removed from can find a moment of black humor on a
Liberty-with-head-bowed-to-the-missing- their view at the first complaint. Yet, even bleak horizon. Cox & Forkum have con-
towers tastefully tragic responses to the though the average weight gain of tributed a grand visual record of the first
day itself, many seemed to have great diffi- detainees is 18 pounds, the very word stage of this long war, and I’m glad to
culty finding a tone for the new era. And Guantanamo has somehow become the know they’ll be with us in the years ahead.
into the void stepped Cox & Forkum. I universally recognized shorthand for tor-
know a lot of composers and lyricists get ture/death camp/the new Gulag. C&F’s Mark Steyn
fed up with the old question about cartoon is a more accurate portrait of the October 2006
“Which comes first—the words or the reality of Gitmo than innumerable in-
music?” and I’m sure cartoon teams get depth reports in the US and European Mark Steyn is an internationally syndicated
tired of explaining the division of labor, media. That’s what good cartoons do. columnist whose writing regularly appears in such
too. But, just as most lyricists will tell you publications as the Chicago Sun-Times, The
the first requirement of a good lyric is There are some special sections in this Atlantic, The Jerusalem Post and The New
good music, I reckon in cartoons the basic book and they’re worth treasuring. Among York Sun. His past books include The Face of
requirement of the wittiest pun is a dis- John Cox’s caricatures, the one of The Tiger and From Head to Toe. His new
book is America Alone: The End Of The
tinctive visual style. For me Cox & Muqtada Al-Sadr (page 188) captures
World As We Know It.
Forkum’s visual signature is their render- precisely his childlike malevolence, like an Visit www.Steynonline.com for his latest.
ing of Uncle Sam: he’s not the elderly Islamic version of the teen psycho in an
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PREFACE
Like our last two books, this volume is a our work together. For example, we dis- newspaper. Knowing that some European
compilation of Cox & Forkum editorial cuss how John and I have different, often countries ban Holocaust denial, the
cartoons produced over a certain time conflicting approaches to creating car- Iranians hoped to divert attention away
period, in this case between November toons, a dynamic we think makes the from the cartoon jihad by soliciting car-
2004 and October 2006. Also included work better, if sometimes frustrating. toons that questioned and mocked the
are additional works, such as our Buster Holocaust. In “The Ahmadinejad Code,”
McNutt gag cartoons, covers for The Also, unlike our last book, I have pulled you’ll see and read about our attempt to
Intellectual Activist magazine, and special some editorial cartoons out of the general subvert the contest with a cartoon con-
project cartoons—all of which were fea- population in the front of the book and taining a hidden anti-regime message.
tures included in our most recent book. devoted sections to them.
Even the title, obviously, was resurrected. As always, we’re grateful to you, our read-
In “Ground Zero” you’ll find all our car- ers, for supporting our work. We’re being
But this book also contains a number of toons relating to the battle for a proper seen in more and more places, including
new features. World Trade Center memorial complex. newspapers like The Washington Times,
The museum and art venues had taken on Investor’s Business Daily, and National Post
For starters, we’re honored to have an a decidedly leftist bent, and a Wall Street (Canada). Other publications range from
introduction penned by the great Mark Journal editorial by Debra Burlingame Hamodia, a New York City paper, to Neo,
Steyn. If you aren’t already, you should be sounded the alarm. That editorial is a Swedish magazine. This past year, Avi
reading him regularly at Steynonline.com. included here because it motivated us and Frier at Florida Jewish News entered our
His columns are insightful, original, and many others to fight back. cartoons into the American Jewish Press
hilarious, particularly in regard to Islamists Association’s annual Rockower Awards.
and their multicultural apologists. He’s But in the two years since our last book, We were proud to garner first place for
even inspired our work (see “The Real one event stands above the others for us— Excellence in Editorial Cartooning. And
Suicide Bomb” on page 61). Our deepest the “cartoon jihad.” The violent Muslim we’re all over the Internet, from blogs like
gratitude goes to Mark. uproar over the Danish Mohammed car- Little Green Footballs and Michelle
toons—and the often submissive reaction Malkin, to online magazines such as
There’s a lot of John’s own artwork here by the West—made apparent to us the Townhall.com and Libertad Digital in
than in previous volumes. Look for a spe- urgent necessity to defend free speech Spain.
cial section of his caricatures, including against Islamists. In this book there are
some that never appeared on our Web two special sections dealing with the issue. We hope you enjoy these cartoons from
site. And as a bonus we’ve reproduced the past, as well as those still to come.
pages from one of John’s many sketch- In “Cartoon Jihad,” I’ve collected all of
books. You can see what he doodles off our Mohammed-related cartoons, as well
the top of his head (and it’s not always as commentary by me and Robert Allen Forkum
pretty!). Tracinski, editor and publisher of The October 2006
Intellectual Activist. Robert explains why
Interviews have been a standard feature of we must “publish or perish.”
our books. But his time, instead of being
interviewed by others, we decided to inter- One consequence of the Mohammed car-
view ourselves. Hopefully we’ve provided toons was an international Holocaust car-
a little more of an inside perspective on toon contest sponsored by Iran’s largest
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EDITORIAL CARTOONS
November 2004 to October 2006
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Hornet’s Nest
November 12, 2004
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Color Me Skeptical
November 14, 2004
Democrat theories as to why

they lost the 2004 presidential
election were almost this
absurd.
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Keeps A Rollin’
November 15, 2004
We had been critical of

Secretary of State Colin
Powell’s methods for years,
so we were not sorry to see
him go. Actually, we were
quite happy.
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Watch Your Six

November 16, 2004
When it was reported that a

Marine shot an unarmed Iraqi
insurgent, the mainstream
media seemed all to ready to
convict him before all the facts
were known.
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Concerted Effort
November 17, 2004
We had high hopes for

Condoleezza Rice’s replace-
ment of Colin Powell. Maybe
with her at the helm, the State
Department would start repre-
senting America’s interests to
the world (rather than the
other way around). We would
be disappointed.
Annan Threat
November 19, 2004
This cartoon was inspired by a

phrase I heard from Robert
Tracinski in reference to UN
resolutions: paper bullets. We
ended up returning to the idea
for another UN cartoon (see
page 130).
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Nuclear Tools
November 21, 2004
With A Word
November 22, 2004
From The Washington Times:

“While the United States has
detected only ‘limited’ resis-
tance in trying to finance the
deficits so far, the Fed chair-
man warned against ‘compla-
cency’ because odds dictate
that the unprecedented torrent
of cash coming in from over-
seas will not continue.
“Stocks fell after Mr.
Greenspan’s warning, with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
ending down nearly 116
points at 10,456.91.”
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Served
November 23, 2004
Anchor Aweigh
November 26, 2004
From USA Today:

“[Anchorman Dan] Rather’s
departure could signal the rise
and influence of politically
motivated Internet ‘bloggers,’
who relentlessly attacked him
and the documents that were
used to back up his 60 Minutes
story. Some political and
media analysts have said the
‘Memogate’ scandal damaged
CBS News’ reputation, espe-
cially among viewers in largely
rural, conservative states—the
network’s core audience.”
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Declared Viktor
November 30, 2004
This cartoon was apparently

easy to misinterpret. Some
readers thought that a boxing
match had taken place instead
of a skating competition, per-
haps because Yushchenko is in
the rink. That would give the
cartoon the exact opposite
meaning, which is not good.
Having to read those long
names (on pants no less!)
didn’t help either. (They both
happen to share the
first name Viktor, too.)
Fallujah Ice Cream

December 1, 2004
From a Union Leader report

about weapons seizures by
US troops in Fallujah:
“Among the most novel finds:
An ice-cream truck that had
been converted into a mobile
car-bomb factory, complete
with all the parts and
weaponry needed to turn
any vehicle into a weapon
on the spot.”
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Gitmo Absurd
December 2, 2004
We should have been more

specific; it was the
International Committee of
the Red Cross making the
complaints.
Abandon Ship
December 5, 2004
Almost two years later, it looks

like Annan has weathered the
storm until his term is
officially over.
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Captive Audience
December 6, 2004
From Reuters:
“Students, once the backbone of
Iran’s reformist movement,
heckled and harangued President
Mohammad Khatami ... ,
accusing him of lacking the
courage to deliver promised
democratic reforms in the
Islamic state.
“‘Khatami, what happened to
your promised freedoms?,’
‘Khatami, shame on you,’
‘Students are wise, they detest
Khatami,’ groups shouted as the
moderate cleric attempted to
address some 1,500 students at
Tehran University. ...
“Student leaders, many of whom
have been jailed for taking part
in pro-democracy protests in
recent years, said Khatami had
failed to stand by them.”
Sprawl or Bust
December 8, 2004
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Blood Money
December 10, 2004
One of the most disappointing

and atrocious aspects of the
Bush administration has been
its continued support of a
Palestinian state, including
sending financial aid. This
support and aid would
continue even after the
terrorist group Hamas was
voted into power (see pages
24, 119, 154).
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In The Soup
December 12, 2004
During his campaign,

Ukrainian presidential candi-
date Viktor Yuschenko’s face
was “bloated, covered in lesions
and ... bluish-grey.”
The Telegraph reported:
“Viennese doctors said ... that
tests showed Mr. Yuschenko
had ingested a near-fatal dose
of dioxin, probably in his food
or drink. ...
“Mr. Yushchenko fell mysteri-
ously ill in September after a
late dinner at the country house
of Volodymyr Satysuk, the first
deputy chairman of the SBU,
Ukraine’s intelligence service
and the successor to the KGB.”
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Generation Graft
December 13, 2004
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Mullah Pet
December 14, 2004
This cartoon turned out to be

more accurate than even we
realized. It was reported in
July 2006 that Mohammed
ElBaradei, head of the
International Atomic Energy
Agency, had fired an inspector
at the behest of the
Iranian regime.
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At War
December 17, 2004
The cartoon is based on a

quote by Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld:
“As you know, you go to war
with the Army you have.
They’re not the Army you
might want or wish to have at
a later time.”
Some in the media tried to
turn the quote against him, as
if he had insulted the troops.
It was later revealed that the
quote had more context than
was reported.
Extreme Makeover
December 19, 2004
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Time and Again
December 20, 2004
Bush was voted TIME’s

“Person of the Year 2004.”
Clause for Alarm

December 22, 2004
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Ukraine Stakes
December 27, 2004
Tsunami
December 28, 2004
We created this cartoon to

acknowledge the great loss of
life due to the South Asia
tsunami, particularly among
children.
But apparently some people
were looking for a cartoon
about how much the West
was helping with aid and
assistance, because we got
questions about why “South
Asia” was on the sleeve instead
of “US.” We wanted to focus
on the tragedy itself, not the
aid efforts.
The original of this cartoon
was later auctioned for a
donation to Direct Relief
International.
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New Year 2005
December 30, 2004
Little did we know that the

insurgency would grow in Iraq
in 2005.
PA Ballot
January 2, 2005
From AP:
“Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas said ... that he wants to
shield Palestinian militants
from Israel and indicated he
has no plans to crack down on
gunmen after upcoming presi-
dential elections.”
We were disappointed but not
surprised when Hamas later
won Palestinian elections.
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Annus Horribilis
January 3, 2005
From a New York Times report

about a “crisis meeting of
veteran foreign policy experts”
hoping to “save Kofi and
rescue the UN”:
“The secret gathering came at
the end of a year that Annan
has described as the organiza-
tion’s ‘annus horribilis,’ a year
in which the United Nations
faced charges of corruption in
the way it ran the oil-for-food
program in Iraq, evidence that
blue-helmeted peacekeepers in
Congo ran prostitution rings
and raped women and teenage
girls, and formal motions of no
confidence in the organiza-
tion’s senior management
from staff unions.”
EnvironMental
January 5, 2005
Some prominent environmen-

talists actually tried to connect
an earthquake-caused tsunami
to global warming. It smacked
of desperation if not insanity.
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Zionist Enemy
January 6, 2005
From Knight-Ridder
“Palestinian interim leader
Mahmoud Abbas yesterday
called Israel the ‘Zionist enemy’
after an Israeli tank killed seven
Palestinians, four of them
young brothers, in a northern
Gaza strawberry field.”
Charles Krauthammer wrote:
“Now Arafat is dead,
Mahmoud Abbas is poised to
succeed him, and the world is
swooning again. Abbas, we are
told, is the great hope, the
moderate, the opponent of
violence, the man who has said
the intifada was counterpro-
ductive. The peacemaker
cometh. Once again, euphoria
is in the air. Once again, no
one wants to listen to what is
being said.”
Embalm the Vote

January 9, 2005
It’s not everyday that John gets

a chance to draw a zombie.
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What Agenda?
January 10, 2005
Yellow Journalism
January 12, 2005
To this day, Dan Rather insists

the memos were authentic. We
know otherwise thanks to
bloggers like Charles Johnson
at Little Green Footballs.
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Caveman Diet
January 13, 2005
From AP:
“Cavemen lived a healthy
lifestyle: Their calorie intake
stayed low because food was
hard to find, and they exer-
cised regularly to bring home
the bacon. The government
wants Americans to follow that
approach. Today, however,
food is at their fingertips, driv-
ing has replaced running and
people are fatter than ever.”
Serpentine Diplomacy
January 16, 2005
Palestinian Authority President

Mahmoud Abbas did his best
to appear “moderate,” which
was exactly what many in the
media seemed to desire.
But Abbas not only refused to
disarm Palestinian terrorist
groups, the armed wing of his
own party continued murder-
ing people, including Israeli
civilians and Palestinians
thought to be collaborating
with Israelis.
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Third Rail
January 17, 2005
Bush’s meager attempt to par-

tially privatize Social Security
failed, due in no small part to
the reluctance of other
Republicans to take a moral
stand for individual rights
against such socialist programs.
Aid and Abet

January 18, 2005
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Dissenting Votes
January 19, 2003
From CNN:
“The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee ... voted 16-2 in
favor of confirming
Condoleezza Rice as secretary
of state. ... Democratic Sens.
Barbara Boxer of California
and John Kerry of
Massachusetts were the two
dissenting votes on the
committee.”
Balancing Act
January 23, 2005
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Zarqawi’s Vote
January 24, 2005
From The New York Times:

“‘We have declared an all-out
war on this evil principle of
democracy and those who
follow this wrong ideology,’
said the speaker, identified on
the tape as Mr. Zarqawi.
Renewing warnings by
Zarqawi-linked groups to
attack voters, election workers
and polling stations, as well as
journalists and election moni-
tors, he added, ‘Anyone who
tries to help set up this system
is part of it.’”
Secular Face
January 25, 2005
From The Los Angeles Times

coverage of the Iraqi elections:
“‘There will be no turbans in
the government,’ said Adnan
Ali, a senior leader of the
Dawa Party, one of the largest
Shi’ite parties.”
But could they be trusted to
establish a secular government
instead of a theocracy?
Indications from Basra were
not good; there the Dawa and
other Islamists had established
Islamic rule, closing liquor
stores and forcing women to
be clothed head to toe in
black.
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Open Season
January 26, 2005
Iraqis Vote
January 30, 2005
From CNN:
“Millions of Iraqis braved the
threat of attacks ... to cast
ballots in the nation’s first free
elections in half a century—
a vote hailed by officials as a
success in the face of an
insurgency. ...
“Insurgents had vowed to wash
the streets with ‘voters’ blood,’
and more than a dozen attacks
killed more than two dozen
people and wounded
71 others.”
The original cartoon had

color; purple fingers and
red blood.
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Analyze This
February 2, 2005
St. George and

the Dragon
February 3, 2005
Almost three and a half years

into the “War on Terrorism,”
and Bush was still giving a pass
to the terrorist leaders of the
Palestinian Authority.
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Targeted
February 6, 2005
From a Washington Times

editorial:
“At the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
during a discussion on media
and democracy, [CNN chief
news executive Eason] Jordan
apparently told the audience
that he ‘knew of 12 journalists
who had not only been killed
by US troops in Iraq, but they
had in fact been targeted,’
according to a report on the
forum’s Web site. The account
was corroborated by The Wall
Street Journal and National
Review Online. ... ”
Jordan resigned from CNN
on February 11.
New Direction
February 7, 2005
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House of Hate
February 8, 2005
From a Chicago Sun-Times

editorial:
“The Center for Religious
Freedom just issued a discom-
fiting report looking at the
spread of hate propaganda in
America by Saudi Arabia. The
center collected 200 books and
other publications from
mosques across the country
and spent the past two years
analyzing them.
“‘The Saudi textbooks and
documents spread throughout
American mosques preach a
Nazi-like hatred for Jews, treat
the forged Protocols of the
Elders of Zion as historical
fact, and avow that the
Muslim’s duty is to eliminate
the state of Israel,’ writes Nina
Shea, the Center’s director.”
Cease Process
February 10, 2005
Some actual mortars did go

off, but the big bomb was yet
to come: a Hamas victory in
Palestinian elections.
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Isn’t It Romantic
February 13, 2005
From Reuters:
“Saudi Arabia’s morality police
are on the scent of illicit red
roses as part of a clampdown
on would-be St Valentine’s
lovers in the strict Muslim
kingdom.
“The Committee for the
Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice, Saudi
Arabia’s powerful religious
vigilantes, have banned shops
from selling any red flowers in
the run-up to February 14.”
In the original cartoon,
the roses are red.
Bash Brothers
February 14, 2005
From Sports Illustrated:

“Jose Canseco says he and
fellow slugger Mark McGwire
were never ‘buddy buddies’ as
teammates on the Oakland
Athletics, but had at least one
thing in common that they
talked about regularly:
using steroids. ...
“McGwire, who has repeatedly
denied steroid use, said in a
statement to the television
news magazine: ‘Once and for
all I did not use steroids nor
any illegal substance. ...’”
McGwire later declined to
answer such allegations under
oath when he appeared before
the House Government
Reform Committee.
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Pajamas at the Gates
February 15, 2005
Black Wedding
February 17, 2005
From FOX News:

“Iran and Syria ... said they
would unite against any
challenges or threats to their
nations’ livelihoods, a move
that could raise the stakes in
the ongoing international
dramas involving both coun-
tries. ...
“‘[Iran and Syria] have been
joined for a long time in creat-
ing terrorism in the region,’
Air Force Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Tom
McInerney told FOX News.
‘That shouldn’t be any surprise
to any of us, they’ve just now
announced it publicly.’”
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USS Ironic
February 20, 2005
From AP:
“The USS Jimmy Carter
entered the Navy’s fleet ...
as the most heavily armed
submarine ever built, and as
the last of the Seawolf class of
attack subs that the Pentagon
ordered during the Cold War’s
final years.
“The $3.2 billion Jimmy
Carter was commissioned
[Feb. 19], the first submarine
named after a living
ex-president. Carter, a
submariner during his time in
the Navy, was on hand for the
ceremony signaling the end of
an era in submarining.”
Limited Partnership
February 21, 2005
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Backsliding
February 22, 2005
From FOX News:

“President Bush scolded Russia
for backsliding on democracy.
... Three days before seeing
Vladimir Putin in Slovakia,
Bush admonished the Russian
leader to ‘renew a commit-
ment to democracy and the
rule of law.’ Putin has raised
alarms in the West by consoli-
dating power, rolling back
democratic reforms and
curbing press and political
freedoms.”
Cedar Revolution
February 24, 2005
From CNN:
“The Lebanese government
abruptly resigned [Feb. 28]
during a stormy parliamentary
debate, prompting a tremen-
dous roar from tens of thou-
sands of anti-government
protesters in central Beirut.
“The demonstrators, awash in
a sea of red, white and green
Lebanese flags, had demanded
the pro-Syrian government’s
resignation—and the with-
drawal of Syrian troops from
Lebanon—since this month’s
assassination of former Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri.”
Hezbollah, however, would
remain.
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The Nightmare
February 26, 2005
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-

NY) made unsubstantiated
claims that the fake memos
from the Dan Rather scandal
were planted by Karl Rove,
chief strategist for Bush.
Hinchey’s office apparently
received a “storm” of protest
phone calls, prompting one
supporter to declare that
Hinchey was being “slammed”
by “hoards of flying monkeys
from the Dark Side.” Little
Green Footballs host Charles
Johnson, who broke the story,
suggested the episode was
begging for a cartoon, and we
agreed. How could John resist
flying monkeys?
The cartoon is based on the
famous 1781 painting by
Henry Fuseli called
“The Nightmare. ”
Oh, Canada
February 27, 2005
From the Seattle

Post-Intelligencer:
“A day after opting out of the
US ballistic missile defense
shield, Canadian Prime
Minister Paul Martin
reiterated ... that Washington
must get permission from
Ottawa before firing on any
incoming missiles over
Canada. ...
“Martin made his comments
to reporters as the fallout from
Canada’s decision to not take
part in the development and
operation of President Bush’s
nascent anti-ballistic missile
shield continued to roil
relations with Canada.”
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Rock Bottom
February 28, 2005
From CNN article titled

“Oscar ratings sink with
Rock”:
“Oscar producers had high
hopes that the comedian Chris
Rock would, as the Oscar host,
have a broad enough appeal to
boost ratings. Based on the
results, ‘I don’t think (veteran
Oscar hosts) Billy Crystal and
Steve Martin have anything to
fear,’ said Brad Adgate, the
senior vice president of corpo-
rate research at Horizon
Media, a New York marketing
firm. Still, Adgate noted that
Rock didn’t exactly flop.”
Pain and Suffering

March 2, 2005
From AP:
“Vatican officials on [Feb. 17]
held out Pope John Paul II’s
stoic suffering with Parkinson’s
disease as an antidote to the
mentality that modern medicine
must cure all, calling this a
‘religion of health’ that is taking
hold in affluent countries. ...
“Psychiatrist Manfred Lutz, a
Vatican academic, hailed John
Paul, who for years has strug-
gled with Parkinson’s, as ‘the
living alternative to the prevail-
ing health-fiend madness.’ ...
‘Precisely in the handicap, in
the disease, in the pain, in old
age, in dying and death one can,
instead, perceive the truth of life
in a clearer way,’ Lutz said.”
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Consensus Justice
March 3, 2005
From an Investor’s Business

Daily editorial:
“Beneath the dust kicked up is
the ugly fact that the ruling in
Roper vs. Simmons wasn’t based
on the Constitution. Writing
for the majority, Justice
Anthony Kennedy cited not
America’s founding document
and guiding law, but ‘national
consensus’ and ‘international
opinion.’”
Rules of Engagement
March 6, 2005
From CNN:
“In an article published
[March 6] in her newspaper, Il
Manifesto, Giuliana Sgrena
wrote, ‘Our car was driving
slowly,’ and ‘the Americans
fired without motive.’ ...
“The US military said Sgrena’s
car rapidly approached a
checkpoint [at] night, and
those inside ignored repeated
warnings to stop. Troops used
arm signals and flashing white
lights, fired warning shots in
front of the car, and shot into
the engine block when the
driver did not stop, the mili-
tary said in a statement.”
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Foreign Interference
March 8, 2005
From FOX News:

“Nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian
protesters and members of
Hezbollah descended upon
central Beirut ... to counter
weeks of huge rallies demand-
ing the immediate exit of
Syrian forces.
“[P]lacards read: ‘America is
the source of terrorism’; ‘All
our disasters are from
America’; ‘No to American-
Zionist intervention; Yes to
Lebanese-Syrian brotherhood.’
“Large cranes hoisted two
giant red-and-white flags
bearing Lebanon’s cedar tree.
On one, the words, ‘Thank
you Syria,’ were written in
English; on the other, ‘No to
foreign interference.’”
All Bark
March 10, 2005
From AP:
“Although the United Nations
and its agencies already have
12 treaties covering terrorism,
a universal definition has been
elusive.
“World leaders and officials
have had deep disagreements
over whether resisters to
alleged oppression—for
example, Palestinian suicide
bombers attacking Israeli tar-
gets—are terrorists or freedom
fighters; and whether states
that use what they think is
legitimate force might be
branded terrorists.”
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Coming Home
March 13, 2005
Colorado University Professor

Ward Churchill first gained
national notoriety when it
became widely known that he
referred to some victims of the
9/11 World Trade Center
terrorist attack as “little
Eichmanns” in a paper titled
“Some People Push Back:
On the Justice of Roosting
Chickens.” It got worse from
there as others began to look
into his background and to,
well, push back.
Churchill resigned his
administrative post in
January 2005.
This cartoon was based on a
suggestion by Rich Chandler.
China Syndrome
March 15, 2005
From FOX News:

“The Bush administration said
... that China’s threat to use
force to stop any Taiwanese
move toward independence is
an ‘unfortunate’ development
that could increase tensions
in the region. ...
“Any outbreak of hostilities
could ensnare the United
States, which is Taiwan’s
biggest arms supplier and is
bound by the Taiwan Relations
Act to help Taiwan defend
itself. There are 50,000 US
troops in Japan and 35,000 in
South Korea. Under
Washington’s one-China
policy, the United States agrees
to have no diplomatic ties with
Taiwan and recognizes Beijing
as China’s sole government.”
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The Caribou’s Nose
March 17, 2005
From FOX News:

“A closely divided Senate voted
to approve oil drilling in an
Alaska wildlife refuge, a major
victory for President George
W. Bush and a stinging defeat
for environmentalists who
have fought the idea for
decades. ”
Bush Piñata
March 20, 2005
On the 2nd anniversary of the

Iraq invasion, Iraqi blogger
Husayn Uthman wrote:
“I don’t care what your news
tells you, what your television
and newspapers say, this is
how we feel. Despite all that
has happened. Despite all the
hurt, the pain, blood, sweat
and tears. These two years
have given us hope we never
had.”
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Grand Old Pragmatists
March 22, 2005
At Tech Central Station,

Ryan Sager wrote:
“[T]his last week the
Republican-controlled
Congress made it clear that it
sees no area of American life—
none too trivial and none too
intimate—that the federal
government should not
permeate with its power. ...
[Beside the trivial steroid
issue], we have the sad case of
Terri Schiavo, the Florida
woman in a ‘permanent
vegetative state’ whose feeding
tube had been removed at her
husband’s urging—and based
on a court’s findings regarding
her wishes on the matter only
to have Congress and
President Bush intervene
ostensibly on her behalf.”
Here’s Looking At You

March 24, 2005
From an editorial in The Wall

Street Journal titled, “McCain-
Feingold Online: Will the
FEC make bloggers kiss the
First Amendment goodbye?”:
“When it comes to the law of
unintended consequences, the
McCain-Feingold campaign-
finance ‘reform’ is rapidly
becoming a legal phe-
nomenon. The latest example
comes courtesy of the Federal
Election Commission, where
officials are being asked to
extend the law to the very
people it is supposed to
empower: individual citizens.”
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The Schiavo Rift
March 27, 2005
Being an Objectivist, I find

myself at odds with religious
conservatives on many issues.
The Terri Schiavo case was
one such issue, in particular
the Federal government’s
intervention into a private,
court-settled matter, all on
religious grounds. I was
appalled by such overreaching
by Bush and Congress, and
indicated my opposition in the
“Grand Old Pragmatists” car-
toon (previous page). As a
result, we received an
unusually large volume of
criticism from our readers.
The Schiavo case exposed a
long-existing rift on the right,
between the religious and the
secular. As I said in our last
book, I stand with the latter.
Mugabe’s Campaign
March 29, 2005
From ABC News:

“President Robert Mugabe
branded supporters of the
country’s main opposition
Movement for Democratic
Change party as traitors in
comments broadcast
repeatedly on state radio ...
raising fears of new political
violence two days ahead of
parliamentary elections. ...
“Similar comments by the
president in the past have
encouraged ruling-party and
youth militias to take violent
action against opposition
supporters and candidates.”
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Kofi’s Last Stand
April 7, 2005
From The Australian:

“Kofi Annan has summoned
all UN staff to a meeting today
in an effort to shore up his
crumbling leadership of the
organization. ...
“Mr. Annan is facing
widespread scepticism about
his claim that an independent
inquiry into the oil-for-food
scandal ‘exonerated’ him. Two
members of the three-member
commission of inquiry have
publicly challenged the UN’s
spin on their report, noting
that it faulted him for
management lapses.”
Penal Injustice
April 10, 2005
From FOX News:

“House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay came under more fire
... for his comments suggesting
that judges who refused to
further consider the Terri
Schiavo case could one day pay
for their decisions. ... DeLay
pointed the finger of blame at
the courts for what he said was
their invention of abortion
rights and prohibitions of
school prayer. He argued that
courts had blatantly ignored
the intent of Congress.”
“‘We set the jurisdiction of the
courts,’ Mr. DeLay said.
‘We set up the courts. We can
unset the courts.’”
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Not-OK Corral
April 12, 2005
As CNN reported after Israeli

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s
visit to President Bush’s ranch
in Texas, Bush still wanted to
pursue the “roadmap to peace”
and a Palestinian state. CNN
also reported that the
Palestinian Authority was
happy with that, even though
they’ve yet to disarm their own
terrorist groups. The Jerusalem
Post reported on the reaction
of Palestinian terror gangs:
“In a clear challenge to the PA,
representatives of various
armed groups in the Gaza
Strip held a press conference in
which they also denounced
Bush and rejected his demand
to dismantle terrorist
organizations.”
UN China Shoppe
April 13, 2005
Bush nominated John R.

Bolton to be US ambassador
to the United Nations.
Bolton’s past criticism of the
UN was not well received by
Democrats, who opposed his
nomination. The UN
probably wasn’t too
excited either.
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Civil Obedience
April 17, 2005
From FOX News:

“China ... rebuffed Tokyo’s
demands for an apology after
sometimes violent
anti-Japanese demonstrations,
while new protests took place
in several cities over perceived
efforts by Japan to gloss over
its wartime history and to gain
a permanent UN Security
Council seat.”
This cartoon is based on the
famous AP photograph by
Jeff Widener taken during the
1989 pro-democracy
demonstrations in Tiananmen
Square, Beijing.
Poperazzi
April 21, 2005
We did not mark the death of

Pope John Paul II, but the
media certainly did.
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Earth Day
April 19, 2005
This is one of our “scroll

cartoons,” that is, a cartoon
that when viewed on a
computer screen requires one
to scroll down to see the whole
cartoon. The scrolling action
allows us to delay revealing the
punch line.
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Taiwanese Take-out
April 24, 2005
From Deutsche Welle News:

“At the outset of a three-day
visit to China, French Prime
Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin
said he supported Beijing’s
‘anti-secession’ law on Taiwan,
and vowed to keep pushing for
an end to an EU arms
embargo that could open the
door for Paris to sell weapons
to the Asian giant.”
Black & White World III / 43
Sinking Feeling
April 26, 2005
Unfortunately, Bush’s boat

ended up sinking first. This
was due primarily to his
inability to morally defend the
idea that individuals have a
right to control all of their own
retirement planning. It was yet
another “small-government”
Republican issue to be
scuttled.
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Cirque Du PA
April 28, 2005
From FOX News:

“[Palestinian Authority leader
Mahmoud] Abbas has been
under heavy pressure from
Israel and the United States to
rein in Palestinian militants,
who had a relatively free hand
under Abbas’ predecessor, the
late Yasser Arafat. But so far,
Abbas has preferred to
negotiate with the armed
groups.”
Hamas would not only remain
armed but would be elected
into the PA government
alongside Abbas.
Nuke-Go-Round
May 1, 2005
The riders change, but the

merry-go-round keeps on
spinning and spinning until ...
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Esprit de Corpse
May 3, 2005
From FOX News:

“The US military said ... it has
seized a letter from Iraqi
insurgents believed to be
intended for Jordanian-born
militant Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi complaining about
low morale among followers
and weakening support for
the insurgency.”
Afghan Times
May 5, 2005
The headlines on the

newspaper were based on
actual headlines of the day.
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Bill of Goods
May 8, 2005

“In its effort to create a virtual
shield around America, the
Department of Homeland
Security now plans to spend
billions of dollars more.
Although some changes are
being made because of
technology that has emerged in
the past couple of years, many
of them are planned because
the devices currently in use
have done little to improve the
nation’s security, according to
a review of agency documents
and interviews with federal
officials and outside experts.”
Blame Games
May 10, 2005
From FOX News:

“Nuclear ‘have-nots’ complain
that the Bush administration,
in particular, has acted
contrary to those
commitments, by rejecting
the nuclear test-ban treaty,
for example. ...
“[Hans] Blix told reporters
there is ‘a great deal of
concern’ about North Korea
and Iran among states without
nuclear weapons. But ‘that
feeling of concern is somewhat
muted by the feeling that the
United States in particular,
and perhaps some other
nuclear weapons states, are not
taking the common bargain as
seriously as they had
committed themselves to do
in the past,’ he said.”
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Phantom Menace
May 12, 2005
It’s kind of amazing how a

bushy moustache and glasses
can be used to caricature
Bolton. Here John managed
with just the moustache.
Flushed
May 15, 2005
From Reuters;
“Newsweek magazine ... said it
erred in a May 9 report that
said US interrogators
desecrated the Koran at
Guantanamo Bay [by flushing
it down a toilet], and
apologized to the victims of
deadly Muslim protests
sparked by the article.”
Glenn Reynolds noted:
“People died, and US military
and diplomatic efforts were
damaged, because—let’s be
clear here—Newsweek was too
anxious to get out a story that
would make the Bush
Administration and the
military look bad.”
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Our SOB
May 17, 2005

“Uzbekistan acknowledged ...
that its crackdown last week on
an antigovernment demonstra-
tion and a prison break had
been far more violent than it
previously described, saying 169
people had been killed, includ-
ing 32 government troops. ...
The Daily Telegraph opined:
“Uzbekistan sits oddly with the
rest of George W. Bush’s for-
eign policy. Elsewhere, his
Administration has taken the
view that the best way to
advance American interests is by
spreading freedom. Yet
Karimov is indulged in an old-
fashioned, Cold War sort of
way: ‘He’s a son-of-a-bitch, but
he’s our son-of-a-bitch.’”
Bibliocide
May 18. 2005
In a critique of a National
Review article by Paul
Marshall, Robert Spencer of
Jihad Watch wrote:
“The bigger story here, and the
gorilla in the living room that
no one wants to notice, is that
flushing a Qur’an down the
toilet should not be grounds to
commit murder. ... [Marshall’s]
argument is this: Newsweek
should have known that this
story would lead to deaths.
Therefore, they shouldn’t have
printed it. But he says nothing
whatsoever about a culture
that condones—celebrates—
wanton murder of innocent
people, mayhem, and
destruction in response to the
alleged and unproven
destruction of a book.”
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Fallowed Ground
May 22, 2005
From The Telegraph:

“White farmers evicted by
Robert Mugabe’s government
have reacted with contempt to
an offer that they should
return to Zimbabwe to take
part in ‘joint ventures’ with
those who brutalized them and
stole their land. ...
“During the evictions, some
white farmers were murdered
and many others were beaten
and their families abused. The
evictions prompted the
collapse of the agriculture
sector, the traditional engine of
the economy. Those who took
over the farms had no
specialist knowledge—
and most farmland now
lies uncultivated.”
Extraordinary
Circumstances
May 24, 2005
From The New York Times,

“Text of Senate Compromise
on Nominations of Judges”:
“Signatories will exercise their
responsibilities under the
advice and consent clause of
the United States Constitution
in good faith. Nominees
should only be filibustered
under extraordinary
circumstances, and each
signatory must use his or her
own discretion and judgment
in determining whether such
circumstances exist.”
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Culture Club
May 26, 2005
From an Ayn Rand Institute

editorial by David Holcberg
and Alex Epstein titled “The
Anti-Life Opposition to
Embryonic Stem Cell
Research”:
“[T]to attribute rights to
embryos is to call for the
violation of actual rights. Since
the purpose of rights is to
enable individuals to secure
their well-being, a crucial right,
inherent in the right to liberty
and property, is the right to do
scientific research in pursuit of
new medical treatments. To
deprive scientists of the freedom
to use clusters of cells to do such
research is to violate their
rights—as well as the rights of
all who would contribute to,
invest in, or benefit from this
research.”
Memorial Day 2005

May 29, 2005
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Light & Dark
May 31, 2005
EUnity
June 2, 2005
From The Washington Post:

“The European Union faced a
deepening crisis of confidence
... after the Dutch joined the
French in rejecting a new
constitution in a move that
could stall the bloc’s expansion
and disrupt decision-making.”
Robert Tracinski noted:
“The one thing you hear from
both left and right—from
French socialists, Dutch
euthanasia advocates, and
British conservatives—is the
sense that the European
constitution creates a political
elite that is not accountable to
its subjects.”
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Jockeying
June 5, 2005

“The government was
particularly critical of Kuwait,
Qatar and the United Arab
Emirates for allowing young
children to be held in captivity
and used as jockeys in camel
races, ‘a multi-million dollar
activity’ in the Persian Gulf
states. Tiny children, some 3
or 4 years old, are prized, and
they are underfed to keep their
weight down, the report notes.
“‘Some boys as young as 6
months old were reported
kidnapped and sold to
traffickers and raised to
become camel jockeys.’
Others, it adds, ‘were sold by
their parents to traffickers.’
Recently, it adds, one fell off
his camel and was trampled to
death.”
Doobious
June 7, 2005

“The Supreme Court dealt a
blow to the medical marijuana
movement ... ruling that the
federal government can still
ban possession of the drug in
states that have eliminated
sanctions for its use in treating
symptoms of illness.
“By a vote of 6 to 3, the court
ruled that Congress’s constitu-
tional authority to regulate the
interstate market in drugs, licit
or illicit, extends to small,
homegrown quantities of
doctor-recommended
marijuana consumed under
California’s Compassionate
Use Act, which was adopted
by an overwhelming majority
of voters in 1996.”
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Guided Tours
June 12, 2005
From Reuters:
“Hollywood actor Sean Penn,
adopting the role of a
journalist, scribbled in his
notebook as Friday prayer
worshippers in Tehran chanted
‘Death to America.’
“Penn, 44, [was] in Iran on a
brief assignment for the San
Francisco Chronicle ahead of
presidential elections. ... ”
Penn later told Reuters:
“I understand the nature of
where [the chant] comes from
and what its intention is,” he
said. “But I don’t think it’s
productive because I think the
message goes to the American
people and it is interpreted
very literally.”
Queuetopia
June 14, 2005
From an editorial in
The Wall Street Journal:
“The larger lesson here is that
health care isn’t immune from
the laws of economics.
Politicians can’t wave a wand
and provide equal coverage for
all merely by declaring medical
care to be a ‘right,’ in the word
that is currently popular on the
American left.
“There are only two ways to allo-
cate any good or service: through
prices, as is done in a market
economy, or lines dictated by
government, as in Canada’s
system. The socialist claim is
that a single-payer system is
more equal than one based on
prices. ... Or, to put it another
way, Canadian health care is
equal only in its shared scarcity.”
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Debt Sentence
June 16, 2005
Andrew Bernstein wrote:

“The current plan of George
Bush and Tony Blair to send
billions more in aid to Africa is
futile. History demonstrates
that brutal dictatorships and
savage tribes engaged in
internecine warfare are not
transformed by handouts.
After all, billions of dollars
have already been poured into
Africa. What Africa needs is
freedom, not welfare. The
West should reject the idea
that it is our responsibility to
lift Africans out of their
poverty—and then tell them of
the system that enabled the
West to gain its current wealth
and power: capitalism.”
Durbin Warfare
June 17, 2005
From AP:
“The White House and Senate
Republicans ... assailed a
Democrat [Sen. Dick Durbin]
for comparing American
interrogators at Guantanamo
Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags,
and Khmer Rouge leader
Pol Pot.
Mark Steyn wrote:
“One measure of a civilized
society is that words mean
something: ‘Soviet’ and ‘Nazi’
and ‘Pol Pot’ cannot equate to
Guantanamo unless you’ve
become utterly unmoored
from reality. Spot the odd one
out: 1) mass starvation; 2) gas
chambers; 3) mountains of
skulls; 4) lousy infidel pop
music turned up to full
volume.”
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Knock the Vote
June 21, 2005
Michael Ledeen wrote:

“The regime had made it clear
that the size of the turnout
would indicate its legitimacy
with the public, so they had to
come up with big numbers.
After hours of hilarious confu-
sion, during which the ‘official’
numbers oscillated wildly and
different vote totals were
announced by the interior
ministry and the Council of
Guardians, the regime finally
decided to claim that
something like 65 percent of
eligible Iranians had voted. But
most clear-eyed observers with
the freedom to move around
the country and actually go to
polling places, found very
few voters.”
Property Wrongs
June 23, 2005

editorial by Larry Salzman and
Alex Epstein titled “The
Tyranny of Eminent Domain”:
“What justifies this treatment
of Kelo and the other owners,
who simply want to be free to
live on their own property?
The seizures and transfers, the
government says, are in ‘the
public interest’—because they
will lead to more jobs for New
London residents and more tax
dollars for the government. ...
“Why are [home owners’]
rights trumped? Because some
gang with political pull doesn’t
happen to like how these
individuals are using their
property.
“This is unjust and
un-American.”
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Star-Spangled Ban
June 26, 2005
Mark Steyn wrote:

“For my own part, I believe
that, if someone wishes to
burn a flag, he should be free
to do so. In the same way, if
Democrat senators want to
make speeches comparing the
US military to Nazis and the
Khmer Rouge, they should be
free to do so. It’s always useful
to know what people really
believe.”
Hostage
June 30, 2005
From a Washington Times

editorial:
“Early in 1979, Mr.
Ahmadinejad became a leader
of an organization called the
Office for Strengthening of
Unity Between Universities
and Theological Seminaries,
known as the O.S.U., which
helped orchestrate the seizure
of the embassy. The organiza-
tion was set up by Ayatollah
Mohammad Beheshti, then a
close confidant of the
Ayatollah Khomeini. [Later]
when Khomeini staged what
he referred to as an ‘Islamic
Cultural Revolution,’ Mr.
Ahmadinejad and the O.S.U.
helped purge dissident stu-
dents and university lecturers,
many of whom were arrested
and subsequently executed.”
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Independence Day 2005
July 3, 2005
This cartoon is based on the

painting “Washington
Reviewing His Ragged Army
at Valley Forge,”
by William Trego.
London Calling
July 7, 2005
From UPI:
“Britain Prime Minister Tony
Blair’s decision to leave the G8
summit to take charge of the
response to the London
bombings, now assumed to
have been the work of
Al Qaeda, underscored the
prime responsibility of heads
of government for the national
security. The other powerful
concerns of the G8 summit—
poverty in Africa and global
warming, the rise of China and
the unstable system of interna-
tional finances—faded into
lesser proportion as London’s
casualty toll rose to a reported
20 dead and at least 160
wounded after a concerted
attack on the transit system of
the British capital.”
The death toll would reach 52.
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Hearings Impaired
July 10, 2005

“The two parties have begun
outlining their strategies for
confirmation hearings once
President Bush nominates a
successor to Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor. ...
“Democrats signaled that who-
ever the nominee is, their three
likely lines of attack will be to
assert the White House did
not consult them sufficiently,
then paint the nominee as ide-
ologically extreme and finally
assert that the Senate had not
received sufficient documents
about the candidate.”
Terrorism Pays
July 12, 2005
From FOX News:

“A teenage Palestinian bomber
killed three Israelis and
wounded at least 30 others in
front of a crowded shopping
mall in this seaside city, the
first such attack in nearly five
months and a blow to a truce
that has revived peace hopes.
... Among the wounded was a
6-year-old girl who was badly
burned, Israel TV reported.”
Days earlier, Bush waived the
US sanctions against the
Palestinian Authority, and the
G8 approved $3 billion in aid,
all despite the fact that the PA
continued refusing to disarm
terrorist groups.
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Plame Game
July 14, 2005
From FOX News:

“Senate Democrats ... pushed
for legislation to deny security
clearances to officials who
disclose the identify of an
undercover agent, an action
that clearly responds to the
controversy surrounding top
White House aide Karl Rove.”
Turned out they were after
the wrong guy. In August
2006, Richard Armitage, a
former deputy secretary of
state, acknowledged that he
initially leaked Valerie Plame’s
identity, thus ending the
controversy.
Dump and Chase

July 15, 2005
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Dress Code
July 17, 2005
The Drudge Report reported

that MoveOn.org sent out a
memo to party attendees
asking them not to wear their
“Bush is a Liar” shirts because
the media would be present.
Seemed like an attempt to hide
their true nature.
Akbar Ganji
July 19. 2005
From The New York Sun:

“Akbar Ganji’s 36-day hunger
strike has nearly cost the
Iranian dissident his life,
according to a writer recently
released from the Tehran
prison that holds Mr. Ganji,
whom President Bush and
European Union leaders have
demanded the mullahs set
free.”
Ganji is an Iranian journalist
and writer who was arrested on
April 22, 2000, after he took
part in a conference held in
Berlin. He was imprisoned in
Evin Prison in Tehran until his
release on March 18, 2006,
after serving his full term.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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The Real Suicide Bomb
July 20, 2005
This cartoon was inspired by a

line from Mark Steyn:
“It has been sobering this past
week watching some of my
‘woollier’ colleagues ...
gradually awake to the
realization that the real suicide
bomb is ‘multiculturalism.’ ...
The London bombers were, to
the naked eye, assimilated—
they ate fish ’n’ chips, played
cricket, sported appalling
leisurewear. They’d adopted so
many trees we couldn’t see
they lacked the big overarching
forest—the essence of identity,
of allegiance. As I’ve said
before, you can’t assimilate
with a nullity—which is what
multiculturalism is.”
Sanitized
July 24, 2005
From MEMRI:
“In his Friday sermon of July
15, 2005, Sheikh Al-Sudayyis
said: ‘Oh Allah, liberate our
Al-Aqsa Mosque from the
defilement of the occupying
and brutal Zionists. ... Oh
Allah, punish the occupying
Zionists and their supporters
from among the corrupt infi-
dels. Oh Allah, scatter and dis-
perse them, and make an
example of them for those
who take heed.’
“It should be noted that the
website www.alminbar.net,
which regularly posts Al-
Sudayyis’s sermons, edited out
the above segment, as did the
Saudi Gazette, which regularly
reports on his sermons.”
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Labor Movement
July 25, 2005
From CNN:
“The Teamsters and the
Service Employees
International Union voted ...
to withdraw from the AFL-
CIO. The announcement
came on the first day of the
50-year-old labor federation’s
annual meeting.”
Prickly Situation
July 27, 2005
From CNN:
“While the Bush
Administration began handing
over 75,000 pages penned by
Supreme Court nominee John
Roberts without an official
request from senators, one
Democrat is already raising
questions about the White
House’s refusal to share papers
claimed to be protected by
attorney-client privilege.”
In September 2005, Roberts
became the seventeenth Chief
Justice of the United States.
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Operation
Murambatsvina
July 28, 2005
From BBC:
“The UN Security Council has
discussed a report on
Zimbabwe’s controversial slum
demolition campaign, despite
opposition from a number of
member countries. The report,
prepared by UN special envoy
Anna Tibaijuka, said the drive
had left hundreds of thousands
homeless and caused untold
human misery. ...
“Despite pleas for an end to
Operation Murambatsvina
(Drive Out Rubbish), riot
police continue to demolish
illegally built structures in
Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.”
Democracy In Action
August 2, 3005
From AP:
“The framers of Iraq’s
constitution appear likely to
enshrine Islam as the main
basis of law in the country—
a stronger role than the United
States had hoped for and one
some Iraqis fear will mean
a more fundamentalist
regime. ...
“Already, Shi’ite leaders in
some southern cities have tried
imposing Islamic-based rules,
pressuring women to wear
headscarves and forcing liquor
stores and music shops
to close.”
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Err America
August 4, 2005

Daily editorial:
“Rush Limbaugh’s prescription
drug troubles were splashed all
over the media. Yet a financial
scandal rocking a leftist radio
network rates no coverage. ...
“New York City’s Department
of Investigation is looking into
charges that $875,000 from a
Bronx nonprofit group and an
affiliate whose budgets are
generously stuffed with local,
state and federal grants was
inappropriately used to fund
Air America. ...
“Public funds used to prop up
a business! Just the kind of
scandal that left-leaning media
would die for. Yet for some
reason they’re giving this one
a pass.”
Steven Vincent
August 5, 2005
From FOX News:

“An American freelance
journalist [Steven Vincent],
who accused Basra’s police of
being infiltrated by Shi’ite
militiamen in a recent New
York Times column and his
Internet blog, was found shot
to death in the southern city
after being abducted by armed
men driving a police car.”
The quote in the cartoon is
from Vincent’s excellent book,
In The Red Zone.
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Pullout Poster
August 7, 2005
From The Jerusalem Post:

“Hamas launched a
competition ... for the best
design of a Gaza pullout
poster. ... The design must
portray the Israeli withdrawal
from the Gaza Strip as a victo-
ry for Palestinian groups—in
particular, Hamas. The design
must also show Israel’s
‘desperation and defeat.’”
From FOX News:
“Israeli Finance Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu resigned
from his post. ... [In a letter he
said] that he cannot be part of
what he described as a ‘process
that ignores reality and
proceeds blindly, creating a
base for Islamic terror that will
threaten the state.’”
Table for None

August 9, 2005
The more things change ...

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Search Seizure
August 11, 2005
Show of Grief
August 14, 2005
From The Drudge Report:

“Anti-war protester Cindy
Sheehan, whose soldier son
Casey was killed in Iraq, is call-
ing for Bush’s ‘impeachment,’
and for Israel to get out of
Palestine!
“‘You get America out of Iraq
and Israel out of Palestine and
you’ll stop the terrorism,’
Sheehan declares.”
From FrontPage Magazine:
“‘They’re not waging a War on
Terror but a War of Terror,’
she said. ‘The biggest terrorist
is George W. Bush.’”
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Evicted
August 15, 2005
From FOX News:

“On the first day of the Israeli
pullout from the Gaza Strip,
some Jewish settlers weren’t
going quietly.
“Many had evacuated their
homes ahead of the official
start of the pullout just after
midnight. ... But those who
refused locked the gates to
their settlements and clasped
hands, forming human chains,
to block soldiers from
delivering dreaded eviction
notices.
“Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon said in a televized
speech that the Gaza pullout
was a painful step, both for the
nation and for himself, but
that it was essential for
Israel’s future.”
Woolly
August 17, 2005
From FOX News:

“Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish
framers of the charter had
reached a tentative deal ...
resolving issues ranging from
oil revenues to the country’s
name but putting off decisions
on the most contentious
questions—including
federalism, women’s rights,
the role of Islam, and possible
Kurdish autonomy.
“The Shi’ites are demanding
that Islam be the main source
of legislation. That could affect
the civil code—because in
Islamic law, or sharia, women
might not receive the same
share of inheritance and
cannot initiate divorce.”
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American Diner
August 19, 2005
Re-wilding
August 21, 2005
From BBC:
“If a group of US researchers
have their way, lions, cheetahs,
elephants and camels could
soon roam parts of North
America, Nature magazine
reports. The plan, which is
called Pleistocene re-wilding, is
intended to be a proactive
approach to conservation. ...
“‘Obviously, gaining public
acceptance is going to be a
huge issue, especially when you
talk about reintroducing
predators,’ said lead author
Josh Donlan, of Cornell
University. ‘There are going to
have to be some major attitude
shifts. That includes realizing
predation is a natural role, and
that people are going to have
to take precautions.’”
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Foreign Aid
August 25, 2005
From CNN:
“The Italian Red Cross has said
it treated four ‘presumed Iraqi
terrorists’ at its Baghdad
hospital to secure the release of
two kidnapped Italian aid
workers, according to a
media report.
“Maurizio Scelli, the outgoing
commissioner of the aid
organization, is reported to
have said the deal ... was kept
secret from US officials.
“‘The mediators asked us to
treat and save the lives of four
presumed terrorists sought by
the Americans, wounded in
combat. We hid them and
brought them to the doctors
with the Red Cross, who
operated on them,’ Scelli told
La Stampa daily.”
Second Course
August 28, 2005
From FOX News:

“Hamas terrorists released a
videotape ... purportedly
showing a bombmaker
believed to top Israel’s most-
wanted list celebrating the
Gaza Strip pullout as a victory
for armed resistance.
“Senior Hamas commander
Mohammed Deif, who
masterminded the deaths of
dozens of Israelis in suicide
bombings, also urged the
destruction of the Jewish state.
It was the latest call for
continued violence by Hamas
officials as the group refocuses
its armed struggle on the West
Bank, where most of Israel’s
246,000 settlers live.”
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Katrina’s Wake
August 30, 2005
From FOX News:

“Rescuers along the hurricane-
ravaged Gulf Coast pushed
aside the dead to reach the
living ... in a race against time
and rising waters, while New
Orleans sank deeper into crisis
and Louisiana’s governor
ordered storm refugees out of
this drowning city.
“Two levees broke and sent
water coursing into the streets
of the Big Easy a full day after
New Orleans appeared to have
escaped widespread destruc-
tion from Hurricane Katrina.
An estimated 80 percent of the
below-sea-level city was under
water, up to 20 feet deep in
places, with miles and miles of
homes swamped.”
Ill-gotten
September 1, 2005
From AFP:
“Rescuers raced to reach
stranded survivors of
Hurricane Katrina as
authorities battled to stop
looters taking control of the
stricken city of New Orleans.
“With authorities estimating
hundreds of dead from [the]
storm—and not even
bothering to recover bodies
from the floods—news that
floodwater levels had stabilized
offered scant relief as the
enormous scale of the crisis
became apparent. ...
“US National Guard troops ...
girded for a mission to stem
rising anarchy in looting-hit
New Orleans, as authorities
tried to stop the situation
spiralling out of control.”
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Recovery
September 4, 2005
From FOX News:

“Republicans say nothing has
changed, that Roberts is the
same well-qualified judge who
seemed to be headed for
confirmation as an associate
justice before Chief Justice
William Rehnquist died [Sept.
3] and Bush tapped Roberts,
50, for the top spot. ...
“Democrats, however, said
bumping Roberts up to chief
justice instead of having him
replace retiring Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor means tougher
scrutiny of Rehnquist’s former
Supreme Court clerk.”
N.O. Blame
September 6, 2005
From a Wall Street Journal

editorial by Bob Williams:
“The primary responsibility for
dealing with emergencies does
not belong to the federal
government. It belongs to local
and state officials who are
charged by law with the
management of the crucial first
response to disasters. First
response should be carried out
by local and state emergency
personnel under the
supervision of the state
governor and his emergency
operations center.
“The actions and inactions of
Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin
are a national disgrace due to
their failure to implement the
previously established
evacuation plans of the
state and city.”
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FDNY 9/11
September 9, 2005
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Brown Out
September 12, 2005
From CNN:
“Federal Emergency
Management Agency Director
Mike Brown resigned ... after
coming under fire over his
qualifications and for what
critics call a bungled response
to Hurricane Katrina.”
Grilling
September 13, 2005
From FOX News:

“Supreme Court chief justice
nominee John Roberts ...
declined to give his opinion on
the landmark 1973 Roe v.
Wade ruling, which effectively
legalized abortion in the US.
Roberts did say, however, that
legal precedent already set by
the court is a ‘very important
consideration.’
“‘I think it is a jolt to the legal
system when you overturn
precedent. ... It is not enough
that you may think that a prior
decision was wrongly decided,’
Roberts said during the first
round of questioning before
the Senate Judiciary
Committee.”
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UNrehearsed
September 18, 2005
From AP:
“In a fiery speech to the UN
General Assembly, President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
denied his nation had any
intention of producing nuclear
weapons. ... The Iranian leader
lashed out at the United States
for its insistence on keeping its
nuclear weapons even as it
rejected Iran’s efforts to build a
peaceful energy program.”
From AFP a few days later:
“On show at an annual military
parade ... were ... six of Iran’s
Shahab-3 ballistic missiles—
which sported banners saying
‘Death to America,’ ‘We will
crush America under our feet’
and ‘Israel must be wiped off
the face of the earth.’”
Tal Afar
September 20, 2005
From the Department of

Defense:
“The commander of coalition
troops in Iraq [on Sept. 16]
described ‘an extremely
successful tactical operation’ in
which US and Iraqi troops all
but cleared Tal Afar, Iraq, of
foreign fighters. ...
“The combined force killed
about 150 insurgents and
captured roughly 350 more.
Casey said officials estimate
this accounted for about 75
percent to 80 percent of the
foreign fighters and other
insurgents they believed were
in the city.”
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Big Spenders
September 22, 2005

editorial by Brendan Miniter:
“This isn’t all Katrina’s fault.
Republicans have been kidding
themselves for years that they are
still the stewards of fiscal conser-
vatism and limited government.
The Medicare prescription drug
plan is just one example. Run
down the list of the some 80
federal entitlements—including
Medicare, Medicaid, farm
subsidies, Pell Grants and so
much more—and it becomes
clear that little has been done to
take these massive programs off
of spending autopilot. Welfare
reform and Freedom to Farm in
the 1990s were nice, but what
has the GOP done lately? In
many cases Republicans have
ramped up spending and then
bragged about it.”
The New Creationism

September 27, 2005

editorial by Keith Lockitch:
“The supposedly nonreligious
theory of ‘intelligent design’ is
nothing more than a crusade
to peddle religion by giving it
the veneer of science—to
pretend, as one commentator
put it, that ‘faith in God is
something that holds up
under the microscope.’
“The insistence of ‘intelligent
design’ advocates that they are
‘agnostic regarding the source
of design’ is a bait-and-switch.
They dangle out the ground-
less possibility of a ‘designer’
who is susceptible of scientific
study—in order to hide their
real agenda of promoting faith
in the supernatural.”
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Frontlines
September 29, 2005
From Christopher Hitchens at

Slate.com on “antiwar”
protests:
“To be against war and
militarism, in the tradition of
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl
Liebknecht, is one thing. But
to have a record of consistent
support for war and
militarism, from the Red Army
in Eastern Europe to the
Serbian ethnic cleansers and
the Taliban, is quite another.
It is really a disgrace that the
liberal press refers to such
enemies of liberalism as
‘antiwar’ when in reality they
are straight-out pro-war, but
on the other side. Was there a
single placard saying, ‘No to
Jihad’? Of course not.”
Rustler’s Rhapsody
October 2, 2005
From AP:
“The European Union insisted
... that governments and the
private sector must share the
responsibility of overseeing the
Internet, setting the stage for a
showdown with the United
States on the future of Internet
governance.
“A senior US official
reiterated ... that the country
wants to remain the Internet’s
ultimate authority, rejecting
calls in a United Nations
meeting in Geneva for a UN
body to take over.”
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Perils Before Swine
October 4, 2005
From The Sun:

“[I]n case they offend Muslim
staff ... [w]orkers in the
benefits department at Dudley
Council, West Midlands
[England], were told to
remove or cover up all pig-
related items, including toys,
porcelain figures, calendars and
even a tissue box featuring
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.”
Mark Steyn wrote:
“Is it really a victory for
‘tolerance’ to say that a council
worker cannot have a Piglet
coffee mug on her desk? ... If
Islam cannot ‘co-exist’ even
with Pooh or the abstract swirl
on a Burger King ice-cream,
how likely is it that it can co-
exist with the more basic prin-
ciples of a pluralist society?”
Watch The Birdie

October 6, 2005
From CNN:
“The US government is
getting set to add billions of
dollars to its budget to build a
stockpile of drugs to fight the
threat of a deadly avian flu
virus, and European
drugmakers are considered
the top candidates for
federal funds.
“But White House officials
will meet with representatives
from the US pharmaceutical
industry ... to encourage them
to get involved in making flu
vaccine amid fears of an avian
flu pandemic, CNN
has learned.”
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Their Perspective
October 9, 2005
From CNN:
“Al Qaeda frontman in Iraq
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi has
said Islam permits the killing
of ‘infidel’ civilians, according
to an audiotape broadcast on
the Internet ...
“‘In Islam, making the
difference is not based on
civilians and military, but on
the basis of Muslims and
infidels,’ said the voice
attributed to the fugitive
leader. ...
“‘The Muslim’s blood cannot
be spilled whatever his work or
place, while spilling the blood
of the infidel, whatever his
work or place, is authorized if
he is not trustworthy,’ said the
tape, whose veracity could not
be determined.”
En Garde
October 11, 2005
A year later, nothing has

changed ... except that Iran is a
year closer to having nuclear
weapons, all despite
ElBaradei’s much touted 2005
Nobel Peace Prize.
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Outside Influence
October 13, 2005
From Voice of America:

“For months, secular Iraqi
politicians like Mithal
al-Alousi have been warning
that Shi’ite Iran is trying to
stoke sectarian tension and is
aiming to create a breakaway
Islamic state in the mostly
Shi’ite southern Iraq.
“US and British military
intelligence officials say they
believe Iran is running
intelligence-gathering
operations in southern Iraq
and providing arms
and money to several active
Islamic groups operating
in the region.”
Synergetic Racism
October 16, 2005
From FOX News:

“Protesters at a white
supremacists’ march threw
rocks at police, vandalized
vehicles and stores and cursed
the mayor for allowing
the event.
“Mayor Jack Ford said when
he and a local minister tried to
calm the rioters ... they were
cursed, and a masked gang
member threatened
to shoot him.”
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Cast Away
October 18, 2005
From Robert Tracinski:

“The election was a loss for the
terrorist insurgency, which
mounted even fewer attacks
during this election than
during the parliamentary
elections in January. This time,
crucially, Sunnis did not
boycott the polls and many
apparently voted in favor of
the constitution. This could be
the beginning of the end for
the insurgency, as Sunnis
reluctantly choose to engage in
political debate rather than to
obstruct it.”
Recognition
October 20, 2005
From FOX News:

“At the start, the 68-year-old
ousted Iraqi leader—looking
thin in a dark gray suit and
open-collared shirt—stood and
asked the presiding judge:
‘Who are you? I want to know
who you are.’
“‘I do not respond to this so-
called court, with all due
respect to its people, and I
retain my constitutional right
as the president of Iraq,’ he
said, brushing off the judge’s
attempts to interrupt him.
“‘Neither do I recognize the
body that has designated and
authorized you, nor the
aggression because all that
has been built on false basis
is false.’”
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Wilma
October 21, 2005
After Katrina, concern about

hurricanes ran high.
But Wilma, fortunately,
was no Katrina.
Grim Countdown
October 25, 2005

Daily editorial:
“With the 2,000th US
military death in Iraq near,
antiwar demonstrators and the
‘this-is-a-quagmire’ press are
eagerly awaiting a painful
milestone.
“We see nothing to celebrate.
Still, Cindy Sheehan says she’ll
mark the occasion by tying
herself to the fence outside the
White House and refusing to
leave ‘until they agree to bring
the troops home.’ ...
“To the antiwar groups and
those in the media who
uncritically repeat their
message, we would ask: Who
else might celebrate the
2,000th death in Iraq? The
enemy itself, of course. ”
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Ahmadinejad’s
Final Solution
October 27, 2005
From AFP:
“Iran was hit by a barrage of
Western condemnation after
its hardline president called for
Israel to be ‘wiped off the
map,’ but the clerical regime
struck back with yet more
verbal attacks against the
Jewish state.
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
speech [was] delivered ... at a
conference entitled ‘The
World without Zionism.’ ...
“The spokesman of Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards, Seyed
Massoud Jazihiri, backed up
Ahmadinejad by describing
Israel as a ‘cancerous tumour.’”
Trick or Treat?
October 28, 2005
A little Halloween fun ...

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Blue Fitzmas
October 30, 2005
From FOX News:

“[T]he White House’s worst-
case scenario—indictments for
both [Scooter] Libby and
[Karl] Rove—did not materi-
alize. The prospect of a high-
level official being escorted out
of the White House in
handcuffs had Bush critics
practically giddy with
anticipation; some even
referred to [Attorny General
Patrick] Fitzgerald’s
pending announcement
as ‘Fitzmas.’”
And it was only downhill
from there for those on the left
as far as the Plame scandal
was concerned.
On The Mend?
November 1, 2005
From FOX News:

“The conservative rebellion
against Bush after [Harriet]
Miers was nominated exposed
fissures among the president
and the party, but [Samuel]
Alito’s nomination seemed
quickly to have brought
establishment Republicans
back together. And any gains
Democrats made from the
fractiousness no longer
appeared meaningful
or lasting.”
The Senate confirmed Alito on
January 31, 2006, making him
the Supreme Court’s
110th Justice.
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Bad Moon Rising
November 3, 2005
From FOX News:

“France’s government faced
mounting pressure ... as subur-
ban unrest spread, with youths
setting fire to a car dealership
and public buses in battles with
riot police, who reportedly
came under gunfire.”
Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch
wrote:
“[I]t is ultimately not a problem
of disaffected youth who just
need jobs and money, but of
youth who consider the French
government a foreign power,
and one that ultimately must be
replaced by a very different kind
of government. ... [T]he French
for over 30 years now have
allowed for massive immigra-
tion without making any move
to assimilate the immigrants.”
Free Tirade
November 6, 2005
From The Miami Herald:

“In a speech lasting more than
two hours, [Venezuelan
President Hugo] Chavez
unsparingly criticized
President Bush and his policies
in the region and said Latin
America was uniting against
the ‘imperialism of the north.’
... Chavez repeated charges
that the United States was
planning to invade his oil-rich
country and promised to
defend it in a ‘war of 100
years.’ US officials have denied
any such plans.”
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Arc de Multiculti
November 8, 2005

“The Multiculturalists accept
the vicious Nazi assumption
that an individual’s ideas and
values are determined by his
race—but, they say, the
cardinal sin is to be too racially
self-assertive, that is, the worst
thing you can do is to assert
the universal truth or
superiority of your own
group’s culture at the expense
of the ideas and values of
others. ‘All cultures are equal’
is the Multiculturalist theory.
In practice, this means that we
must be ready to subordinate
our own culture—the culture
of Western civilization. ...”
Envirophobia
November 10, 2005
From CNN:
“A solid phalanx of Republican
moderates drove House GOP
leaders to drop a hotly
contested plan to open an
Alaskan wilderness area to oil
drilling as a sweeping budget
bill headed toward a vote. ...
A plan to allow states to lift a
moratorium on oil drilling off
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
was also axed.”
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Historical Rewrite
November 13, 2005
From FOX News:

“President Bush ... shot back at
critics claiming his administra-
tion misconstrued or lied
about pre-war intelligence
showing that Saddam Hussein
had weapons of mass destruc-
tion, saying ‘it is deeply irre-
sponsible to rewrite the history
of how that war began.’ ...
“Bush also reiterated the need
to defeat extremists seeking to
destroy America and other
modern governments, saying
the ‘murderous ideology of
Islamic radicals’ is the great
threat of the 21st century.”
Change of Possession
November 15, 2005
From CNN:
“Israel and the Palestinian
Authority agreed ... on a
detailed arrangement for
opening the borders of Gaza
and to allow freer movement
for Palestinians elsewhere.
“It took all-night negotiations
and a strong diplomatic shove
from US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice to get a deal
whose basic elements had been
in the works for weeks.
“‘I have to say, as a football
fan, sometimes the last yard is
the hardest, and I think we
experienced that today,’
Rice told a news conference
where she announced the
agreement.”
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Breached
November 17, 2005
From FOX News:

“Pointing to Taiwan—as well
as South Korea—Bush said
political freedoms are the
inevitable product of the kind
of economic liberalization
China has begun pursuing.
“‘Men and women who are
allowed to control their own
wealth will eventually insist on
controlling their own lives and
their own future,’ he said. ‘As
China reforms its economy, its
leaders are finding that once
the door to freedom is opened
even a crack, it cannot
be closed.’”
Unfriendly Fire
November 20, 2005
From Mark Steyn:

“One expects nothing from the
Democrats. Their leaders are
men like Jay Rockefeller,
Democrat of West Virginia,
who in 2002 voted for the war
and denounced Saddam
Hussein as an ‘imminent
threat’ and claimed that Iraq
could have nuclear weapons by
2007 if not earlier. Now he
says it’s Bush who ‘lied’ his
way into war with a lot of scary
mumbo-jumbo about WMD.
“What does Rockefeller
believe, really? I know what
Bush believes: He thought
Saddam should go in 2002
and today he’s glad he’s gone,
as am I.”
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Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2005
From FOX News:

“China called bird flu a
‘serious epidemic’ and pledged
to step up measures to fight
the deadly virus ... as officials
announced three new
outbreaks of the disease in
poultry in the country. ...
“The massive nation—where
billions of poultry are being
vaccinated—has reported one
human fatality and one
suspected death.”
This cartoon is based on
Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom
From Want” (1943).
As Plain As ...
November 27, 2005
From FOX News:

“Iran has been under intense
international pressure to curb
its nuclear program, which the
United States claims is part of
an effort to produce nuclear
weapons. Iran denies such
claims and says its program is
aimed at generating
electricity. ...
“[T]he European Union
accused Iran of having
documents that show how to
make nuclear warheads and
joined the United States in
warning Tehran it could be
referred to the UN Security
Council for possible
sanctions.”
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Ditched
November 29, 2005
From FOX News:

“Canadian Prime Minister
Paul Martin dissolved the
House of Commons ... and
elections were set following
Parliament’s vote of
no confidence in the
government. ...
“[T]he Conservative Party
teamed up with the New
Democratic and Bloc
Quebecois parties to bring
down the government,
claiming Martin’s ruling
Liberal Party had lost its
moral authority.”
Will Destroy Ya
December 1, 2005
From FOX News:

“Venezuela accused the US
government ... of trying to
destabilize the country by
supporting an opposition
boycott of the weekend’s
congressional elections.
The United States denied
the claim. ...
“Venezuela’s claims were the
latest in a series of charges and
counter charges leveled by
both sides—a situation that
prompted US Ambassador
William Brownfield to state
recently: ‘The United States is
simply not responsible for
everything that occurs in
Venezuela.’”
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Mullahs in Space
December 4, 2005
From FOX News:

“Iran’s space agency is trying
to snap up technology from
abroad as fast as possible for its
satellite program, fearing the
West will seek to impose
restrictions like those put on
the Iranian nuclear program.
“Iran has major ambitions in
space, looking to show off its
technological abilities, monitor
its neighborhood—where the
United States has hundreds of
thousands of troops—and
establish itself as a regional
superpower.”
Winter Blunderland
December 6, 2005
From Mark Steyn:

“As to what planet Mr. Bush is
on, he’s not on Pluto but on
planet Goofy, a strange lost
world where it’s perfectly
normal for apparently sane
people to walk around
protesting about global
warming in sub-zero
temperatures. Or, as the
Canadian Press reported:
‘Montreal—tens of thousands
of people ignored frigid
temperatures Saturday to lead
a worldwide day of protest
against global warming.’”
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Failing Grade
December 8, 2005
From Voice of America:

“US Ambassador to the
United Nations John Bolton
issued a statement ...
unequivocally condemning the
bomb attack in the Israeli
town of Netanya that killed at
least five people. The unusual
action came after a US attempt
to have the statement issued by
the Security Council
was rejected. ...
“He said, ‘You have to speak
up in response to these terror-
ist attacks. It’s a great shame
that the Security Council
couldn’t speak to this terrorist
attack in Netanya, but if the
Council won’t speak, the
United States will."
Eminent Domain
December 11, 2005
From CNN:
“The [Chinese] government
said three people died in ...
violence in [a] coastal village
northeast of Hong Kong, but
witnesses put the death toll as
high as 20. ...
“The police shootings ... were
the deadliest known clash yet
amid growing anger in areas
throughout China over
government land seizures for
construction of power plants,
shopping malls and
other projects.
“Farmers often complain they
are paid too little. Some accuse
local authorities of stealing
compensation money.”
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Naked Aggression
December 13, 2005
From FOX News:

“Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has reiterated his
doubt about the Holocaust
and called on Muslim nations
to take a proactive stand on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
state media reported. ...
“The president’s comments,
published on Iranian state
television’s Web site, were the
second time in a week he has
expressed doubt about the
Nazi genocide of Jews during
World War II. In October,
Ahmadinejad also said Israel
should be ‘wiped off
the map.’”
Sic Transit
December 15, 2005
From CNN:
“If New York City bus and
subway workers strike when
their contract expires at 12:01
a.m. ET ... there will be ‘no
winners,’ Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said as he described
the contingency plan to deal
with a possible mass transit
shutdown.”
This cartoon came out about
the time Peter Jackson’s King
Kong hit the theaters. (The
original 1933 version is still far
better in my opinion.)
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Eavesdrop
December 18, 2005
From CNN:
“After The New York Times
reported, and CNN
confirmed, a claim that Bush
gave the National Security
Agency license to eavesdrop on
Americans communicating
with people overseas, the
president said that his actions
were permissible, but that
leaking the revelation to the
media was illegal. ...
“He acknowledged during [an]
address that he allowed the
NSA ‘to intercept the
international communications
of people with known links to
Al Qaeda and related terrorist
organizations.’”
Extra, Extra
December 20, 2005
In the original cartoon, the

fingers of the Iraqis were
stained purple.
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Holiday Specials
December 21, 2005

editorial by Edwin A. Locke:
“How would you like to be
penalized because you do your
work too well—for example,
for running your business so
effectively that it attracts
hordes of happy customers?
Well, this is what is happening
more and more frequently to
Wal-Mart. ...
“It is quite true that Wal-Mart
has been successful in outcom-
peting other stores which sell
the same products, such as
toys, clothing, and groceries.
But how has it been able to do
this? By discovering new ways
of using computer systems and
other technology to better
manage its inventory and costs
and reap the benefits of econo-
my of scale.”
Indefensible
December 27, 2005
From a Sun editorial:

“[Saddam’s] defence is now
being masterminded by a team
of lawyers aiding former US
attorney Mr. [Ramsey] Clark.
... Bizarrely, his legal team
address Saddam as ‘Mr.
President’—despite the fact he
tortured, gassed and butchered
an estimated 300,000 of his
own people during a 24-year
reign of terror.
“Saddam still remains defiant
about his trial which could see
him face the death sentence.
He gloated: ‘I don’t mind
being killed. There will always
be another Saddam.’”
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Auld Lang Syne
December 29, 2005
Shady Threat
January 1, 2006
From the Houston Chronicle:

“Preliminary election results
showed religious Shi’ite
factions were taking most of
the votes but would probably
have to form a governing
coalition with the Kurds in the
north and other groups.
Whether the minority
Sunnis—whose members
dominated Iraq during
Saddam Hussein’s rule and
joined the anti-US
insurgency—will feel they
have a stake in the new Iraq
remains to be seen.”
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One Man’s
Whistleblower
January 3, 2006
From AP:
“Republican Senator Mitch
McConnell agrees with
President Bush that whoever
leaked the details about a
domestic spying program has
‘breached our national security
and endangered Americans.’
And he says the Justice
Department should ‘go after’
that person.
“But Democrat Charles
Schumer says the leaker could
just be a ‘whistleblower’ trying
to expose illegal activity.
“Schumer tells ‘FOX News
Sunday’ that ‘there are differ-
ences between felons and
whistleblowers.’”
Pipe Wrench
January 5, 2006
From The New Zealand Herald:

“A fight over natural gas prices
between Russia and Ukraine
has given the European Union
a rude New Year’s warning
about energy dependency ...
with Moscow. ... The dispute
seemed to have been settled,
thanks to a complex deal by
which Ukraine will pay more
for its imports of Russian gas
but not the immediate quadru-
pling that Moscow had
demanded.
“That demand was widely seen
by analysts as a punishment
after the Ukrainian people
swept aside the country’s pro-
Russian leadership and installed
a Western-leaning president,
Viktor Yushchenko, in the
2004 ‘Orange Revolution.’”
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Pablum and Jetsam
January 8, 2006
From AP:
“Rep. Tom DeLay, the defiant
face of a conservative
revolution in Congress,
stepped down as House
majority leader ... under
pressure from Republicans
staggered by an election-year
corruption scandal.”
From AP:
“The White House sharply
criticized Christian broadcaster
Pat Robertson ... for
suggesting that Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke
was divine punishment for
‘dividing God’s land.’”
Fallout
January 10, 2006
From FOX News:

“In the presence of
International Atomic Energy
Agency inspectors, Iran ...
unsealed uranium enrichment
equipment that the UN agency
had blocked from use because
the Islamic republic was in
violation of nuclear
non-proliferation rules. ...
“The UN’s top nuclear watch-
dog at the IAEA told Sky News
last week that he is losing his
patience with Iran. Mohamed
ElBaradei makes his next
report in March, and
administration officials say
by that time it will be clear if
Russia and China will
support sanctions.”
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Background Check
January 12, 2006
From AP:
“Sen. Edward Kennedy, who
criticized Supreme Court
nominee Samuel Alito’s past
membership in a controversial
Princeton University alumni
club, severed his ties ... with a
former Harvard college social
club that bans women
members.”
Sheltering Guise
January 15, 2006
From FOX News:

“In a speech ... on state-run
Pakistan Television, President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf did not
[directly] address the
Damadola strike [in which US
forces killed cilivians in an
attempt to kill Al Qaeda’s No.
2 leader, al-Zawahiri], but he
warned his countrymen not to
harbor militants, saying it
would only increase violence
inside Pakistan.
“‘If we keep sheltering foreign
terrorists here ... our future
will not be good. Remember
what I say,’ Musharraf said in
the speech. ...”
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Cotton Picking Mind
January 17, 2006
From The New York Sun:

“Senator Clinton compared
the Republican leadership of
the current House of
Representatives to the very
idea the civil rights leader
dedicated his life to fighting.
“‘When you look at the way
the House of Representatives
has been run—it has been run
like a plantation,’ she said.
‘You know what I’m
talking about.’
“Mrs. Clinton ... was
addressing a packed house at
the Reverend Al Sharpton’s
annual Martin Luther King
Day event at Canaan Baptist
Church in Harlem.”
Brokeback Diplomacy
January 19, 2006
From FOX News:

“Russia and China, which have
veto power on the [UN
Security C]ouncil, appeared to
remain the greatest obstacles.
Both nations are opposed to
sanctioning a country with
which they have strong eco-
nomic and strategic ties. In
recent days, they have
expressed reluctance even to
the idea of referral.”
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Huff and Puff
January 22, 2006
From AFP:
“The EU negotiating trio and
the United States, ‘are trying
to sell’ China and Russia on a
tough resolution at the IAEA
board of governors meeting to
send Iran before the Security
Council for possible sanctions,
said a second Western
diplomat. ...
“China, a major recipient of
Iranian oil, and Russia [a key
Iranian trade partner] want to
give diplomacy more time in a
crisis which escalated when
Tehran earlier this month
announced it was resuming
nuclear fuel work that can also
make atom bomb material.”
Driver’s Seat
January 24, 2006
From CNN:
“Prime Minister-elect Stephen
Harper pledged to carry out
his campaign promises quickly
to cut taxes, get tough on
crime and repair strained ties
with Washington after his
Conservative Party won
national elections in Canada.
“That may be easier said than
done. The Conservatives’
winning margin was too
narrow to rule with a majority,
a situation that will make it
hard for them to get legislation
through the divided House of
Commons.”
This cartoon was a follow-up
to the cartoon on page 89.
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Thugocracy
January 26, 2006
From CNN:
“Hamas deserves to be
recognized by the international
community, and despite the
group’s militant history, there
is a chance the soon-to-be
Palestinian leaders could turn
away from violence, former
President Jimmy Carter said.”
Also from CNN:

“‘Hamas is a terrorist
organization, which means
they believe it is their right to
murder women, children and
innocent civilians to achieve
their goals, ...’ said Sen.
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.”
“Hamas’ charter calls for the
destruction of Israel, and
leaders said they had no plans
to change it.”
A Yen to Censor
January 29, 2006
From CNN:
“Internet search engine Google
has rolled out a China-based
version of its popular Web
site—one that bows to
Beijing’s censorship laws and
will edit the content of its
results. ...
“‘In order to operate from
China, we have removed some
content from the search results
available on Google.cn, in
response to local law,
regulation or policy,’ a Google
statement said.”
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Idle Worship
February 2, 2006
From CNN:
“The International Atomic
Energy Agency’s board of
governors ended their first
session of talks on whether to
delay reporting Iran to the UN
Security Council amid threats
by the Islamic state that it
would start enriching uranium
if its nuclear activities were
sent to the council.
“‘There is a disagreement
among board members
whether to report the Iranian
issue now to the Security
Council or at a later stage,’
IAEA Director-General
Mohamed ElBaradei said. ...”
Undeniable
February 8, 2006
From CBS News:

“A prominent Iranian
newspaper says it is going to
hold a competition for
cartoons on the Holocaust to
test whether the West will
apply the principle of freedom
of expression to the Nazi
genocide against Jews as it did
to the caricatures of the
Prophet Muhammad. ...
“Last year Ahmadinejad
provoked outcries when he said
on separate occasions that Israel
should be ‘wiped out’ and the
Holocaust was a ‘myth.’”
This cartoon was to be our
protest entry into the contest
until we decided on a different
plan. See “The Ahmadinejad
Code” on page 167 for the
story.
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Sitting Duck
February 12, 2006
From FOX News:

“Late-night comedy stars are
probably planning a slew of
new jokes after news broke ...
that Vice President Dick
Cheney accidentally shot and
injured a hunting buddy.
“Harry Whittington, 78, was
hunting quail with Cheney on
Armstrong Ranch in south
Texas when Cheney sprayed
his friend with birdshot. Bird
shot disperses a spray of small
pellets rather than a single
larger shotgun round.”
We knew cartoonists would
enjoy this incident, so we
decided to create a cartoon
about the cartoons.
Reined In
February 15, 2006
From CNN:
“[Rep. Tom] Lantos, who as a
teenager was placed in a
Hungarian fascist forced-labor
camp, angrily and repeatedly
asked whether Yahoo had been
in contact with the family of
Shi Tao, a journalist critics say
Yahoo helped police identify
and convict after he criticized
human rights abuses in China.
“Yahoo’s representative
eventually said that while
Yahoo condemned what
happened to Shi, it had not
contacted his family.”
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Port Holes
February 19, 2005
From FOX News:

“Homeland Security Director
Michael Chertoff is defending
the Bush administration’s
review of an international
shipping deal two days after
one company in the Port of
Miami sued to prevent an
Arab-owned firm from taking
over port operations.”
As I said at the time, the
primary issue is that the port
deal was with a government-
owned company. I’d be
concerned if the American
government were taking over
some non-military enterprise
in America much less a
government from the
Middle East.
Peace, Love & Genocide

February 23, 2006
From the Hamas charter:

“Our struggle against the Jews
is very great and very serious ...
The Movement is but one
squadron that should be
supported by more and more
squadrons from this vast Arab
and Islamic world, until the
enemy is vanquished and
Allah’s victory is realized. ...
“The Prophet, Allah bless him
and grant him salvation, has
said: ‘The Day of Judgement
will not come about until
Muslims fight the Jews, when
the Jew will hide behind stones
and trees. The stones and trees
will say O Muslims, O
Abdulla, there is a Jew behind
me, come and kill him.’”
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Singh Along
February 28, 2006
From FOX News:

“President Bush arrived in
India ... as talks on a landmark
US-Indian nuclear pact were
down to the wire and tens of
thousands of Indians rallied
across the country to protest
his visit.
“Protesters in New Delhi
chanted ‘Death to Bush,’ while
Muslims in the southern city
of Hyderabad held a mock
funeral for the American
president.
“... [N]egotiators have strug-
gled to settle differences over
how to separate India’s tightly
entwined civilian and military
atomic programs.”
Paradise Lost
March 5, 2006
From Charles Krauthammer

in The Washington Post:
“Nothing tells you more about
Hollywood than what it
chooses to honor. Nominated
for best foreign-language film
is ‘Paradise Now,’ a sympa-
thetic portrayal of two suicide
bombers. Nominated for best
picture is ‘Munich,’ a sympa-
thetic portrayal of yesterday’s
fashion in barbarism:
homicide terrorism.
“But until you see ‘Syriana,’
nominated for best screenplay
(and George Clooney, for best
supporting actor), you have no
idea how self-flagellation and
self-loathing pass for
complexity and moral serious-
ness in Hollywood.”
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Made in Iran
March 7, 2006
From ABC News:

“US military and intelligence
officials tell ABC News that
they have caught shipments of
deadly new bombs at the Iran-
Iraq border.
“They are a very nasty piece of
business, capable of penetrat-
ing US troops’ strongest
armor. ...
“US officials say roadside
bomb attacks against American
forces in Iraq have become
much more deadly as more
and more of the Iran-designed
and Iran-produced bombs
have been smuggled in from
the country since last
October.”
The Three T’s

March 9, 2006
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi,

former deputy foreign
secretary of the Taliban, was
admitted as a student at Yale
University.
Jay Bennish, a high school
social studies teacher in
Denver, was put on leave after
comparing President Bush’s
State of the Union address to
speeches made by Adolf Hitler.
And Mohammed Reza
Taheri-azar, a University of
North Carolina graduate from
Iran, was accused of running
down nine people on campus
to avenge the treatment of
Muslims.
To think I ever complained
about school.
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CAIRful
March 12, 2006
From Daniel Pipes:

“CAIR [Council on American-
Islamic Relations], for its part,
dismisses all criticism, blaming
negative comments on ‘Muslim
bashers’ who ‘can never point
to something CAIR has done
in its 10-year history that is
objectionable.’ ...
“CAIR attempts to close down
public debate about itself and
Islam in several ways, starting
with a string of lawsuits against
public and private individuals
and several publications.
CAIR’s Rabiah Ahmed has
openly acknowledged that
lawsuits are increasingly an
‘instrument’ for it to use.”
Udder Madness
March 14, 2006
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Sultan of Enlightenment
March 16, 2006
From an interview with Arab-

American Psychologist Wafa
Sultan:
“The clash we are witnessing
around the world is not a clash
of religions, or a clash of civi-
lizations. It is a clash between
two opposites, between two
eras. It is a clash between a
mentality that belongs to the
Middle Ages and another men-
tality that belongs to the 21st
century. It is a clash between
civilization and backwardness,
between the civilized and the
primitive, between barbarity
and rationality. It is a clash
between freedom and oppres-
sion, between democracy and
dictatorship. ... It is a clash
between those who treat women
like beasts, and those who treat
them like human beings.”
Worse
March 19, 2006
From FOX News:

“The third anniversary of the
US-led war in Iraq drew tens
of thousands of protesters
around the globe, from
hurricane-ravaged Louisiana to
Australia, with chants of ‘Stop
the War’ and calls for the with-
drawal of troops.”
The sign in the cartoon was an
actual one seen at an “antiwar”
protests in Australia.
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Sidelines
March 21, 2006
From FOX News:

“Former Vice President Al
Gore said ... he’s not planning
to run for president in 2008
but hasn’t ruled out a future in
politics.
“‘I’m enjoying what I’m
doing,’ Gore told an audience
at Middle Tennessee State
University, where he gave a
lecture on global warming,
one in a series.
“‘I’m not planning to be a
candidate again. I haven’t
reached a stage in my life
where I’m willing to say I will
never consider something like
this,’ he said. ‘But I’m not
saying that to be coy; I’m just
saying that to be honest—that
I haven’t reached that point.’”
Keeping Up
Appearances
March 26, 2006
From FOX News:

“An Afghan court ... dismissed
a case against a man who
converted from Islam to
Christianity because of a lack
of evidence and he will be
released soon, officials said.
“The announcement came as
US-backed President Hamid
Karzai faced mounting foreign
pressure to free Abdul
Rahman, a move that risked
angering Muslim clerics here
who have called for him
to be killed.”
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Mucho Caliente
March 28, 2006
Chaos Theory
March 30, 2006

in TIME:
“President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad ... reportedly told
an associate that on the podium
of the General Assembly last
September, he felt a halo around
him and for ‘those 27 or 28
minutes, the leaders of the
world did not blink ... as if a
hand was holding them there
and it opened their eyes to
receive’ his message. He believes
that the Islamic revolution’s
raison d’etre is to prepare the
way for the messianic
redemption, which in his
eschatology is preceded by
worldwide upheaval and chaos.
How better to light the fuse for
eternal bliss than with a nuclear
flame?”
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Blixatron
April 4, 2006
From The Jerusalem Post:

“Former UN chief weapons
inspector Hans Blix ... said
Iran is a least five years away
from developing a nuclear
bomb, leaving time to
peacefully negotiate a
settlement. ...
“‘But there is a chance that the
US will use bombs or missiles
against several sites in Iran,’ he
was quoted as saying by
Norwegian news agency NTB.
‘Then, the reactions would be
strong, and would contribute
to increased terrorism.’”
At the time, Iran was also
publicizing some of their new
stealth military weapons, like a
“super-modern flying boat.”
Lott of Pork
April 6, 2006

“The high-octane Mississippi
Senate delegation is using a
mammoth bill funding
hurricane relief and the war in
Iraq to have taxpayers foot the
$700 million bill for a rail line
along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
... Lott vigorously defended
the rail line plan.
“‘I’ll just say this about the so-
called porkbusters. I’m getting
damn tired of hearing from
them. They have been nothing
but trouble ever since Katrina,’
he said. ‘We in Mississippi
have not asked for more than
we deserve. We’ve been very
reasonable.’”
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Race Baiting
April 7, 2006
From AP:
“NASCAR said it was
‘outrageous’ that ‘Dateline
NBC’ targeted one of its race
tracks last weekend for a
possible segment on anti-
Muslim sentiment in the
United States.
“NASCAR said NBC
confirmed it was sending
Muslim-looking men to a race,
along with a camera crew to
film fans’ reactions. The NBC
crew was ‘apparently on site in
Martinsville, Va., walked
around and no one bothered
them,’ NASCAR spokesman
Ramsey Poston said.”
This cartoon is based on a
combination of ideas by three
Michelle Malkin readers: Chris
S., Steve B. and Uncle Jack.
Assimilation Problem
April 9, 2006
Robert Tracinski wrote:

“[Eleven] million illegal immi-
grants is a relatively small prob-
lem.What we really ought to be
worried about is a group of 75
million people who desperately
need to be assimilated into
America’s culture of individual-
ism, taught the essential facts
about America’s history, and
encouraged to appreciate the
virtues of our political system.
“I am talking about 75 million
people who are, you might say,
on an automatic track to citi-
zenship, and all of whom will
become newly eligible to vote in
the next two decades.”
“I am speaking of the 75 million
Americans under the age of 18.”
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Whinemaking
April 11, 2006
From CNN:
“French students, emboldened
by President Jacques Chirac’s
cave-in on a youth jobs
measure, prepared new
protests ... to try to get rid
of other government
labor reforms.
“Unions declared victory ...
after Chirac abandoned the
measure that had spurred
nationwide unrest, paralyzed
secondary schools and
universities and created a crisis
for the government.”
Mild and Woolly

April 13, 2006
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Crasher
April 16, 2006
From Mark Steyn:

“If, say, Norway or Ireland
acquired nuclear weapons, we
might regret the ‘proliferation,’
but we wouldn’t have to
contemplate mushroom clouds
over neighboring states. In that
sense, the civilized world has
already lost: to enter into
negotiations with a jurisdiction
headed by a Holocaust-
denying millenarian nut job is,
in itself, an act of profound
weakness—the first
concession, regardless of what
weaselly settlement might
eventually emerge.”
The words under “Pretty
Please?” are Farsi for “I Plead
You to God.” Our thanks to
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi for
the language advice.
Victim Hoods
April 18, 2006
From FOX News:

“Hamas officials have defend-
ed the blast as a justified
response to Israeli military
strikes against the Palestinians.
... The bomb, laced with nails
and other projectiles, shattered
car windshields, smashed win-
dows of nearby buildings and
blew away the restaurant’s
sign. ...
“Six Israelis and two
Romanian workers were
among those killed. One
woman was killed while stand-
ing near her husband and chil-
dren who were wounded, wit-
nesses said.
“In Gaza, Islamic Jihad mili-
tants handed out pastries on
the streets in celebration.”
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Farce of Nature
April 20, 2006

editorial by Onkar Ghate:
“The individuals singled out
for attack by environmental
terrorists—namely, scientists,
inventors and businessmen—
are the creators of industrial
civilization. ... These three cat-
egories of individuals represent
the exploiters of nature, those
who transform wilderness to
support man’s life. ... They
teach man his method of sur-
vival: using his mind to
reshape nature to his needs.
“As monstrous as it sounds, it
is precisely because these
heroes are the sustainers of
human life that they are target-
ed by those who are willing to
take up arms for their cause,
environmentalism.”
Gas Fumes
April 25, 2006

editorial by Alex Epstein:
“Since we pay the lowest price
that we can find for gasoline
(and never more than it is
worth to us), and gas stations
sell gasoline for the highest
price they can get (and never
less than it is worth to them),
the price of gasoline is a
reflection of mutually
beneficial trade—the essence
of proper interaction under
capitalism. For a gas station
owner to charge what the
market will bear is no more
‘gouging’ than it is for a
computer programmer—or a
cashier—to negotiate for the
highest salary he can get.”
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The Real Recycling
Problem
April 27, 2006
From Piotr C. Brzezinski in the

The Harvard Crimson:
“Alarmism—the environmental
movement’s basic strategy—
has led to this dead end. Since
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,
the movement has been
dominated by doomsday
scenarios. Even on the first
Earth Day in 1970, biologist
George Wald predicted that
‘civilization will end within 15
or 30 years unless immediate
action is taken,’ while the New
York Times warned that ‘man
must stop pollution and
conserve his resources … to
save the race from intolerable
deterioration and possible
extinction.’ Fortunately, such
apocalyptic forecasts have
repeatedly proven to be wrong.”
Jose, Can You See?

April 30, 2006
From The Times Online:

“A British record producer
who started his career as a tea-
boy in a London studio has
emerged as the man behind a
Spanish-language version of
The Star-Spangled Banner,
America’s national anthem,
that has upset President
George W Bush.
“Adam Kidron, 46, released
Nuestro Himno —Our
Anthem— ... as a gesture of
support for Hispanic
immigrants. ...
“One of the Spanish lines ...
translates as: ‘My people keep
fighting/ It’s time to break the
chains.’”
Not the best way to encourage
assimilation.
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Dicey
May 2, 2006

“Over the weekend,
Condoleezza Rice rejected a
bogus Iranian offer for
international inspections,
saying that the Iranians are
‘playing games.’ They sure are,
but they’re playing the game
we started: the charade of
trying to establish the basis for
war by going through a United
Nations Security Council that
is sympathetic to dictatorships
and hostile to the US.”
With a Whimper
May 4, 2006
From CNN:
“Publicly blasting the United
States one last time, Al Qaeda
terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui
was formally sentenced to life
in prison ... for his role in the
September 11 attacks. ...
“US District Judge Leonie
Brinkema responded: ‘You
came here to be a martyr and
die in a big bang of glory.
But to paraphrase the poet
T.S. Eliot, instead you will die
with a whimper,’ she said,
borrowing a line from
The Hollow Men.”
Death would have been the
only real justice. But short of
that, we created the cartoon to
emphasize the best of a less
than ideal outcome.
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Reflections of a Despot
May 7, 2006
From FOX News:

“President Hugo Chavez said
that if opposition parties
boycott December’s
presidential election he would
call a referendum asking voters
to decide whether he should
govern Venezuela for the next
25 years.
“Speaking ... at a stadium
packed with supporters in
central Lara state, Chavez
rejected allegations he was a
power-hungry tyrant but said
he might seek to extend his
rule beyond current term
limits if the opposition pulls
out of the presidential vote, as
it did last year’s congressional
election.”
From Iran With Hate

May 9, 2006
From FOX News:

“Iran’s president declared in a
letter to President Bush that
democracy had failed
worldwide and lamented ‘an
ever-increasing global hatred’
of the US government.
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice swiftly rejected the letter,
saying it made no progress
toward resolving questions
about Tehran’s suspect nuclear
program. ...
“Rice’s comments were the
most detailed response from
the United States to the letter,
the first from an Iranian head
of state to an American
president since the 1979
hostage crisis at the US
Embassy in Tehran.”
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No Consequences
May 11, 2006
From Caroline Glick at

The Jerusalem Post:
“[E]very cent transferred in
‘direct aid’ to the Palestinians
is money that will prevent
Hamas from failing. Every
well-fed Palestinian welfare
case will be a vindication for
the Palestinian people’s
decision to vote Hamas into
power. Every penny of
Western and Israeli aid tells
them that they may both
escalate their war against Israel
while officially joining the
global jihad and eat well on
the Israeli-American-
European dole.”
Caller ID
May 14, 2006
From Mark Steyn:

“I’m a strong believer in
privacy rights. I don’t see why
Americans are obligated to give
the government their bank
account details and the
holdings therein. Other
revenue agencies in other free
societies don’t require that
level of disclosure. But, given
that the people of the United
States are apparently entirely
cool with that, it’s hard to see
why lists of phone numbers
(i.e., your monthly statement)
with no identifying
information attached to them
is of such a vastly different
order of magnitude. By
definition, ‘connecting the
dots’ involves getting to see
the dots in the first place.”
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Meeting of Minds
May 16, 2006

"[T]he left’s attempt to capture
the pro-immigration side of
the argument [in contrast to
the anti-immigration side] cre-
ates a false alternative, with
both sides taking for granted
the false premise that the effect
of immigration is to destroy
America and merely
disagreeing on the desirability
of this outcome.”
Castaway
May 17, 2006
From AP:
“[Ayaan] Hirsi Ali has become
one of the best-known figures
in the country. She has lived
under police protection since a
film she wrote criticizing the
treatment of women under
Islam provoked the murder of
its director, Theo van Gogh,
by an Islamic radical.
“Hirsi Ali resigned from
parliament ... saying in a some-
times teary voice it would be
impossible for her to
function as a politician while
fighting a legal battle over her
immigration status. ...
“Hirsi Ali has declined to say
what she will do next, or
confirm reports she will go
work for the American
Enterprise Institute.”
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EU-Bonz
May 21, 2006
From AFP:
“Iran, in its first reaction to a
European Union proposal
aimed at resolving a nuclear
standoff with the West, said
suspension of uranium
enrichment breached Tehran’s
legitimate rights. ...
“The EU draft proposal,
prepared by Germany, Britain
and France, calls on Iran to
suspend all enrichment-related
and reprocessing activities and
to continue this during
negotiations.
“The EU offers a package of
trade, technology and security
benefits if Tehran stops
enriching uranium to defuse
an escalating international
showdown.”
Core Curriculum
May 23, 2006
From a Washington Post

editorial:
“A review of a sample of
official Saudi textbooks for
Islamic studies used during the
current academic year reveals
that, despite the Saudi
government’s statements to the
contrary, an ideology of hatred
toward Christians and Jews
and Muslims who do not
follow Wahhabi doctrine
remains in this area of the
public school system. The texts
teach a dualistic vision,
dividing the world into true
believers of Islam (the
‘monotheists’) and unbelievers
(the ‘polytheists’ and
‘infidels’).”
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Royal Pain
May 25, 2006
From AP:
“Some lawmakers are warning
of a voter backlash against
members of Congress ‘trying
to protect their own’ if party
leaders keep escalating a con-
stitutional dispute over the
FBI’s raid of a representative’s
office.
“Yet not long after House
Speaker Dennis Hastert and
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
demanded ... the bureau return
documents it took, White
House aides were in talks with
Hastert’s staff about the possi-
ble transfer of the material,
perhaps to the House ethics
committee, according to sever-
al Republican officials.”
Memorial Day 2006

May 27, 2006
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Step by Step
May 30, 2006
From The Christian Science

Monitor:
“During the last week of May,
thousands of Iranians
demonstrated in the
northwestern city of Tabriz,
and the previous week there
were protests at universities in
five cities. The protests were
triggered by the official
government newspaper—the
Islamic Republic News
Agency’s Iran—publishing a
cartoon which depicts a boy
repeating ‘cockroach’ in
Persian before a giant bug in
front of him asks ‘What?’ in
Azeri. Azeri-Iranians —who
make up approximately one-
quarter of the country’s popu-
lation—were particularly
offended by the cartoon.”
Second Coat?
June 1, 2006
From CNN:
“The US military offered
condolences ... to relatives of
24 Iraqi civilians killed in
Haditha last November in
events that are now being
investigated as possible murder
by Marines.”
Hugh Hewitt wrote:

“The media frenzy around the
actions of a handful of Marines
is now building and, as
happened with the illegal acts
at Abu Ghraib, will be used to
advance agendas unrelated to
the allegations, agendas which
trade on the slander of the
American military, and which
use the very rare exceptions to
paint broadly, even as the
enemy will.”
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Canadian Jihad
June 4, 2006
From FOX News:

“Canadian authorities decided
to move quickly against a
suspected homegrown terror
ring and head off any attack on
Ontario targets after
undercover Mounties delivered
bomb-making materials in a
sting operation, according to a
news report. ...
“Police arrested 12 adults, ages
19 to 43, and five suspects
younger than 18 ... on
terrorism charges, including
plotting attacks with explosives
on Canadian targets. The
suspects were citizens or
residents of Canada, and
police said they had trained
together.”
The flag is colored red in our
original cartoon.
Democracide
June 6, 2006
From CNN:
“[Palestinian President
Mahmoud] Abbas wants to
hold the nonbinding vote to
put pressure on the Hamas-led
government to accept the plan,
which calls for a Palestinian
state alongside Israel, implying
recognition of the Jewish state.
Hamas, which is committed to
Israel’s destruction, has
demanded changes to the
proposal and said it will
boycott the referendum.”
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Message From Above
June 8, 2006
From CBS News:

“Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
most-wanted terrorist in Iraq
with a $25 million bounty on
his head, was killed when US
warplanes dropped 500-pound
bombs on his isolated
safehouse northeast of
Baghdad, coalition
officials said. ...
“US military spokesman
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell
showed a picture Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi with his eyes closed
and spots of blood behind him
after he was killed by an air
strike. Caldwell also showed a
video of the attack in which he
said F-16 fighter jets dropped
two 500-pound bombs
on the site.”
Valor Blind
June 13, 2006
From Frank Schaeffer

in The Los Angeles Times:
“[I]f the ‘chattering classes’
ever wonder why those of us in
the military family sometimes
bitterly resent the media, they
need look no further than the
‘Haditha story.’ What bothers
me is that I haven’t seen one
recent story dedicated to the
heroism of our troops given
such consistent prominence in
The Times or other leading
papers. Nor have I read a
front-page headline about a
military medal ceremony and
the story behind it, although
every year I see front-page
treatment in The Times of who
wins the Oscars.”
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Holy Smoke and Mirrors
June 15, 2006

“John Stossel—the Objectivist-
influenced pro-free-market
author and television
investigative reporter—has just
put out a bracing op-ed
labeling environmentalists as
‘religious fanatics.’ Similarly
Wesley Pruden eloquently
described Al Gore as a ‘televan-
gelist for the First Church of
the Warming Globe.’
“Well, it looks like Gore is
working on a new membership
drive for that church, by way of
training 1,000 apostles to
preach his apocalyptic gospel.
Meanwhile, more scientists are
speaking up to express their
doubts about the global warm-
ing catechism.”
Forked Tongue
June 18, 2006
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Guns and Butter
June 20, 2006
From AP:
“International sponsors of a
stalled Mideast peace plan
agreed ... to channel aid to
cash-starved Palestinians for
health care, utilities and social
services, while continuing a
boycott of the militant-led
Palestinian government.
“The United States went along
with a compromise plan to
send mostly European money
through the World Bank for
services and to pay stipends
directly to poor people in the
Palestinian territories.”
So much for the Bush
Doctrine of considering
regimes “hostile” if they harbor
or support terrorists.
Soldier’s Burden
June 22, 2006
From Diana West at

Townhall.com:
“If we still valued our own
men more than the enemy’s
and the ‘civilians’ he hides
among—and now I’m talking
about the war in Iraq—our
tactics would be totally differ-
ent, and, not incidentally,
infinitely more successful. We
would drop bombs on city
blocks, for example, not waste
men in dangerous house-to-
house searches. We would
destroy enemy sanctuaries in
Syria and Iran, not disarm
‘insurgents’ at perilous check-
points in hostile Iraqi
strongholds.”
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Homegrown
June 25, 2006
From Reuters:
“Seven men were charged ...
with conspiring to attack the
landmark Sears Tower in
Chicago and the FBI building
in Miami in a mission they
hoped would be ‘just as good
or greater’ than September 11,
US officials said.
“But Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales told a news confer-
ence in Washington that the
plotting of the ‘home-grown
terrorism cell’ never went
beyond the earliest stages. ...
“The indictment said the men
pledged loyalty to Osama bin
Laden’s Al Qaeda in order to
seek support from it for their
desire to ‘wage war’ against the
US government and build an
Islamic army.”
Scuttle
June 27, 2006

“Last week, the mainstream
media continued its policy of
declassifying America’s anti-
terrorism intelligence gathering
tactics. You didn’t think that
the editors of the New York
Times had the legal authority
to declassify national security
secrets? Neither did I. In fact,
publishing these life-or-death
secrets is a crime.”
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Non-negotiable
June 28, 2006
From FOX News:

“Israeli forces continued their
assault on the Gaza Strip ... by
sending warplanes to bomb
militant training camps in an
attempt to pressure Palestinian
militants to release a captured
Israeli soldier. ...
“The Hamas-led Palestinian
government responded to the
Israeli incursion by calling for
a prisoner swap to solve
the crisis. ...
“Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert has called for the
unconditional release of
the soldier, 19-year-old
Cpl. Gilad Shalit.”
Unrequited War
June 29, 2006
From The Washington Times:

“The top US commander in
Iraq said [June 22] that covert
Iranian troops are training
brethren Iraqi Shi’ites on how
to attack US and
coalition troops.
“The disclosure by Army Gen.
George Casey is the most
pointed Pentagon criticism of
Iran’s militant regime, which is
embroiled in a debate with the
United States because
Washington demands an end
to Tehran’s uranium
enrichment.”
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Independence Day 2006
July 2, 2006
Paper Bullet
July 5, 2006
From CNN:
“Japan ... called for ‘swift,
strong’ UN action in response
to North Korea’s missile tests,
while US officials cited
‘unprecedented’ international
unity on the issue. ...
“United Nations Security
Council members discussed a
draft resolution proposed by
Japan—and backed by the
United States and Britain—
that demands countries cut off
any money or materials that
could be used for North
Korea’s missile program,
diplomats said. The resolution
... also would condemn the
missile tests and demand that
Pyongyang cease any missile
activity.”
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Red, White and
Desecrated
July 6, 2006

“As the congregation of the
World Overcomers Outreach
Ministries Church looked on
and its pastor, Apostle Alton
R. Williams, presided, a brown
shroud much like a burqa was
pulled away to reveal a giant
statue of the Lady, but with
the Ten Commandments
under one arm and ‘Jehovah’
inscribed on her crown.
“And in place of a torch, she
held aloft a large gold cross, as
if to ward off the pawnshops,
the car dealerships and the dis-
count furniture outlets at the
busy corner of Kirby Parkway
and Winchester that is her
home. A single tear graced her
cheek.”
Palestinian Body Armor

July 9, 2006

“The Palestinians show us a
society based on sacrifice in its
purest, most fanatical form. It
is a society built around a
single moral model: the suicide
bomber, who is lionized on
billboards, on television, in
popular songs. And this is not
just the propaganda of the
corrupt Palestinian rulers. One
of the delegates elected to the
Palestinian parliament in the
populist upsurge for Hamas
was Umm Nidal, the ‘mother
of martyrs,’ who has sent three
of her sons to kill themselves
in terrorist attacks on Israel,
proclaiming that their ‘sacrifice
... makes me happy.’”
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Stars and Barred
July 11, 2006

editorial:
“We realize that critics are not
inventing the manifold
problems that can arise from
illegal immigration:
Trespassing, violent crime,
overcrowded hospital emer-
gency rooms, document coun-
terfeiting, human smuggling,
corpses in the Arizona desert,
and a sense that the govern-
ment has lost control of the
border. But all of these result,
ultimately, from too many
immigrants chasing too few
US visas.”
I advocate open immigration,
that is, a phasing out of visa
quotas while keeping
safeguards against criminals,
terrorists, and those with
infectious diseases.
Exchange Rate
July 13, 2006
From AP:
“A senior Hezbollah official
said ... the guerrillas did not
expect Israel to react with an
all-out offensive after the
capture of two soldiers, the first
acknowledgment by the group
that it had miscalculated the
consequences of the raid two
weeks ago. ...
“‘The truth is—let me say this
clearly—we didn’t even expect
(this) response ... that (Israel)
would exploit this operation
for this big war against us,’ said
[Mahmoud Komati, deputy
chief of the Hezbollah’s politi-
cal arm].
“He said Hezbollah had
expected ‘the usual, limited
response’ from Israel.”
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Rock’em Sock’em
July 15, 2006

“If, in the face of repeated
threats and provocation by an
aggressive dictatorship, you
refuse to go to war, the war
will eventually come to you.
“That’s the meaning of Iran’s
de facto declaration of war
against Israel—which is,
ultimately, a new war Iran is
waging against the US Iran is
so desperate for war with the
West that it is bringing the war
to us, openly and willfully
initiating a regional conflict
that may soon involve three of
Iran’s proxies—Hamas,
Hezbollah, and Syria—
fighting against America’s
proxy, Israel.”
Disproportionate
Response
July 16, 2006

press release:
“‘The worldwide condemna-
tion of Israel’s retaliation
against Lebanon is morally
obscene,’ said Dr. Yaron
Brook, executive director of
the Ayn Rand Institute. ‘The
calls effectively demand that
the innocent victim be
sacrificed to the aggressor.
Instead of excoriating
Hezbollah and helping Israel
to annihilate it, President Bush
and other leaders urged that
the victim, Israel, not cause
“excessive” damage to the
aggressor—and begged that no
harm come to Lebanon’s
terrorist-supporting
government.’”
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Asymmetrical Warfare
July 18, 2006

editorial:
“The Geneva Conventions of
1949 govern the treatment of
lawful combatants and
civilians during wartime. But
now a new Pentagon
memorandum concludes that
Common Article 3 of the
Conventions also governs the
treatment of unlawful
combatants: pirates, drug
mafias and especially terrorists.
So, five years after 9/11, the
US is about to give to people
who ram commercial jets into
buildings many of the same
legal privileges and immunities
as the average GI.”
Helter Shelter
July 20, 2006
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Signs of the Times
July 23 2006
Cowardly Blending
July 25, 2006
From FOX News:

“[UN humanitarian chief Jan
Egeland] had strong words for
Hezbollah, which crossed into
Israel and captured two Israeli
soldiers on July 12, triggering
fierce fighting from both sides.
“‘Consistently, from the
Hezbollah heartland, my
message was that Hezbollah
must stop this cowardly
blending ... among women
and children,’ he said. ‘I heard
they were proud because they
lost very few fighters and that
it was the civilians bearing the
brunt of this. I don’t think
anyone should be proud of
having many more children
and women dead than
armed men.’”
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Global Jihad
July 27, 2006
From CNN:
“Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader
issued a worldwide call ... for
Muslims to rise up in a holy
war against Israel and join the
fighting in Lebanon and Gaza
until Islam reigns from ‘Spain
to Iraq.’
“In a taped message broadcast
by Al-Jazeera television,
Ayman al-Zawahiri said the
terrorist organization would
not stand idly by while ‘these
(Israeli) shells burn our
brothers.’
“‘All the world is a battlefield
open in front of us,’ said the
Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri,
second-in-command to Osama
bin Laden.”
Usual Suspects
July 30, 2006
From CNN:
“Three of the shooting
survivors were in serious
condition, according to
Harborview Medical Center;
the other two victims were in
satisfactory condition,
including a woman who is five
months pregnant. ...
“According to [Seattle Police
Chief Gil] Kerlikowske, Haq
was upset over three world
events: US involvement in Iraq;
the US backing of Israel; and
what Haq said was the
mistreatment of the Pakistani
people.
“Haq found the Jewish center
by researching ‘something
Jewish’ on the Internet,
Kerlikowske said.”
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The Qana Massacre
August 1, 2006

in The Washington Post:
“Hezbollah is deliberately
trying to create civilian
casualties on both sides while
Israel is deliberately trying to
minimize civilian casualties,
also on both sides. ...
“Israeli innocents must die in
order for Israel to be
terrorized. But Lebanese
innocents must also die in
order for Israel to be
demonized, which is why
Hezbollah hides its fighters, its
rockets, its launchers, its entire
infrastructure among civilians.
Creating human shields is a
war crime. It is also a
Hezbollah specialty.”
Castroectomy
August 2, 2006
From CNN:
“Celebration in the streets of
Little Havana gave way ... to
speculation about the state of
Fidel Castro’s health and what
would happen in Cuba if he
were to die, while county
officials activated a rumor-
control hot line.
“Castro remained out of sight
... after undergoing intestinal
surgery and temporarily
turning over power to his
brother Raul. Some in Florida
speculated that the leader who
has defied the United States
for nearly half a century
already could be dead.”
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Changement de Rythme
August 3, 2006
From FOX News:

“Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said ... the
solution to the Middle East
crisis was to destroy Israel,
state-media reported. ...
“Israeli Foreign Ministry
spokesman Mark Regev
accused Ahmadinejad of trying
to rally the region to support
Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
“‘Our operation in Lebanon is
designed to neutralize one of
the long arms of Iran,
Hezbollah,’ Regev said.
‘Hezbollah is their proxy, being
used as an instrument of
Teheran to advance their
extremist agenda, and the blow
to Hezbollah is a blow to
Iranian interests and a blow to
all extremist Jihadist forces in
the region.’”
First Casualty
August 6, 2006
From Ynet News:

“A Reuters photograph of
smoke rising from buildings in
Beirut has been withdrawn after
coming under attack by
American web logs [i.e., Charles
Johnson]. The blogs accused
Reuters of distorting the
photograph to include more
smoke and damage. ...
“Reuters has since withdrawn
the photograph from its website
[and posted] a message
admitting that the image
was distorted. ...
“Adnan Hajj, the photographer
who sent the altered image, was
also the Reuters photographer
behind many of the images
from Qana—which have also
been the subject of suspicions
for being staged.”
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Snatching Defeat
August 8, 2006
From AP:
“Hezbollah leader Sheik
Hassan Nasrallah
acknowledges that Israeli
troops can sweep across south
Lebanon. But if he and his
militants can survive and keep
fighting, he will cement his
image as the unlikely new hero
of Arab nationalism. ...
“Anticipating the ground
assault, Nasrallah sought to
ensure his group’s survival and
safeguard its widening base of
support in Lebanon and
abroad by lowering the bar for
what would constitute victory.
“In a television interview ... ,
he defined victory as a
successful defense.”
Direct Intercept
August 10, 2006
From FOX News:

“Suspects arrested ... for
planning to stage a massive
mid-air terror attack were in
the final stages of planning and
planned to run a dry-run of
the plan within two days, US
intelligence officers said ...
“One official said the suicide
attackers planned to use a
peroxide-based solution that
could ignite when sparked by a
camera flash or another
electronic device.
“The test run was designed to
see whether the plotters would
be able to smuggle the needed
materials aboard the planes,
these officials said.”
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Disarmed?
August 13, 2006
From FOX News:

“Neither the Lebanese army
nor UN forces can be counted
on to challenge Hezbollah and
prevent the Iran-supplied
guerrillas from rearming,
military experts and
commentators said.”
From Reuters:
“French Foreign Minister
Philippe Douste-Blazy made
clear in an interview with Le
Monde newspaper that the
mission of the larger UNIFIL
would not include disarming
Hezbollah by force.”
Incoming
August 15, 2006
From BBC:
“An onslaught of criticism
greets the Israeli government
in the country’s press, a day
after the cease-fire in Lebanon
between Hezbollah and the
Israeli military came into force.
“Commentators note that
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
failed to achieve the objectives
that he had himself set out at
the start of the fighting,
primarily the release of the two
Israeli soldiers abducted by
Hezbollah and the destruction
of Hezbollah’s fighting
capacity.”
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Amended
August 17, 2006

editorial:
“As for the First Amendment,
Judge Taylor asserts that the
plaintiffs—a group that
includes the ACLU and
assorted academics, lawyers
and journalists who believe
their conversations may have
been tapped but almost surely
weren’t—had their free-speech
rights violated because Al
Qaeda types are now afraid to
speak to them on the phone.
“But the wiretapping program
is not preventing anyone from
speaking on the phone. Quite
the opposite—if the terrorists
stopped talking on the phone,
there would be nothing to
wiretap.”
Disproportionate
Response II
August 20, 2006
From Jules Crittenden in

The Boston Herald:
“In recent weeks, France
stepped forward to act as a
broker of peace in Lebanon.
‘Act’ is the key verb in that last
sentence, as it now would seem
that the only other verifiable
part of the sentence is ‘in
recent weeks.’ To correctly
parse that sentence, one must
understand that when France
suggested it wanted to broker
peace in Lebanon, it did not
necessarily mean ‘broker’ or
‘peace’ or ‘Lebanon’ in the way
we might understand those
words. The same is true when
France further suggested it
wanted to ‘lead’ a ‘strong’
‘multinational’ ‘force’ there.”
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Carrot and Stick
August 22, 2006
From CNN:
“Iran’s top nuclear negotiator
said his country is willing to
return to serious talks on its
nuclear program ... , Iranian
media reported.”
A few days later from FOX
News:
“Iran’s hard-line president ...
inaugurated a heavy-water
production plant, a facility the
West fears will be used to
develop a nuclear bomb, as
Tehran remained defiant
ahead of a UN deadline that
could lead to sanctions.”
Profiled
August 24, 2006
From Reuters:
“The American Civil Liberties
Union and a leading Islamic
group ... accused security
officials at New York’s JFK
airport of racially profiling
Muslims.
“‘The price to pay for racial
profiling is too high,’ Dennis
Parker of the American Civil
Liberties Union told a news
conference. ‘All people should
be treated in the same way
regardless of their race, their
ethnicity or their religion.’”
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Pluto, Outcast
August 25, 2006
From AP:
“Pluto, beloved by some as a
cosmic underdog but scorned
by astronomers who
considered it too dinky and
distant, was unceremoniously
stripped of its status
as a planet. ...
“The International
Astronomical Union, dramati-
cally reversing course just a
week after floating the idea of
reaffirming Pluto’s planethood
and adding three new planets
to Earth’s neighborhood,
downgraded the ninth rock
from the sun in historic new
galactic guidelines.”
Militant Message
August 27, 2006
From The Age:

“Israel has dropped its demand
for the immediate disarming of
Hezbollah and begun to focus
on persuading UN forces to
stop the flow of weapons into
Lebanon.
“Israel accepted that its goals
must be realistic and the first
step was to prevent Hezbollah
from staging cross-border raids
or acquiring long-range
weapons, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Mark Regev said.”
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Divine Intervention
August 29, 2006
From FOX News:

“US Rep. Katherine Harris
told a religious journal that
separation of church and state
is ‘a lie’ and God and the
nation’s founding fathers did
not intend the country be ‘a
nation of secular laws.’
“The Republican candidate for
US Senate also said that if
Christians are not elected,
politicians will ‘legislate sin,’
including abortion and gay
marriage. ...
“Her comments drew criti-
cism, including some from
fellow Republicans who called
them offensive and not repre-
sentative of the party.”
Structural Failure
August 31, 2006

“The left is correct on one
point: the story is all about
federal spending and the wel-
fare state—but not in the way
that they think. ...
“[T]he disaster in New
Orleans was caused, not by too
little welfare spending, but by
too much. Four decades of
dependence on government
left people without the
resources—economic,
intellectual, or moral—to plan
ahead and provide for
themselves in an emergency.”
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Purging 101
September 5, 2006
From the International

Herald Tribune:
“Iran’s hard-line President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged
students ... to push for a purge
of liberal and secular teachers
from universities, in another
sign of his determination to
stamp a strong Islamic
fundamentalist revival on
the country. ...
“Earlier this year, dozens of
liberal university professors and
teachers were sent into
retirement, and last November,
Ahmadinejad’s administration
for the first time named a cleric
to head the country’s oldest
institution of higher education,
Tehran University—drawing
strong protests from students.”
Charm Offensive
September 7, 2006
From The Boston Herald:

“A furious row has broken out
at Harvard over the decision to
invite Mohammad Khatami,
the pro-Hezbollah former
president of Iran, to speak. ...
“And it has revived growing
questions about whether the
university itself is falling under
the sway of anti-Israel
sentiment.
“Ruth Wisse, Martin Peretz
Professor of Yiddish Literature,
noted: ‘The most preposterous
part of the invitation is the
subject on which he is allowed
to speak.’ That subject: ‘The
Ethics of Tolerance in the
Age of Violence.’”
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Confronting Terrorism V
September 8, 2006
We’ve added a panel to this

cartoon every year since 2002.
Sadly, this year could have
been a repeat of last year,
because not much has changed
in regard to Iran—Bush is still
waging a war of words, and
Ahmadinejad is coming to
New York again. Instead, for
the fifth anniversary, we’re
highlighting people who seem
to prefer deflecting
responsibility for 9/11 over
identifying and confronting
our enemies.
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Refresher Course
September 10, 2006
Tunnel Vision
September 12, 2006
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The New Desecraters
September 14, 2006
Popular Mechanics Editor

James B. Meigs wrote in the
New York Post about the
magazine’s examination of
9/11 conspiracy theories:
“In every single case, we found
that the very facts used by con-
spiracy theorists to support
their fantasies are mistaken,
misunderstood or deliberately
falsified.”
I highly recommend their
book: Debunking 9/11 Myths:
Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t
Stand Up To The Facts by
David Dunbar and Brad
Reagan.
Critical Mass
September 17, 2006
From FOX News:

“Pope Benedict XVI said ...
that he was ‘deeply sorry’
about the angry reaction to his
recent remarks about Islam,
which he said came from a text
that did not reflect his personal
opinion.
“Despite the statement,
protests and violence persisted
across the Muslim world, with
churches set ablaze in the West
Bank and a hard-line Iranian
cleric saying the pope was
united with President Bush to
‘repeat the Crusades.’”
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Security Breach
September 19, 2006
From Bloomberg:
“Iran’s nuclear program is ‘not
an important subject,’ Iranian
President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said as he arrived
in New York to attend the
61st United Nations General
Assembly. ...
“Iran ignored an Aug. 31 UN
Security Council deadline for
the Islamic Republic to
suspend its uranium
enrichment, a process that can
be used to make nuclear fuel or
build a bomb, or face possible
sanctions.”
No report of a halo this time,
but Daniel Pipes noted that
Ahmadinejad’s speech closed
with references to the
“promised” Islamic messiah.
El Diablo
September 21, 2006
From CNN:
“Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez tore into his US coun-
terpart and his UN hosts ...
likening President Bush to the
devil and telling the General
Assembly that its system is
‘worthless.’ ...
“John Bolton, US ambassador
to the United Nations, dis-
missed the speech, saying,
‘I think that [Chavez’s]
rhetoric today shows exactly
what kind of man he is. ... The
real issue here, is he knows he
can exercise freedom of speech
on that podium and, as I say,
he could exercise it in Central
Park, too. He’s not giving the
same freedom to the people
of Venezuela.’”
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Fleecers
September 24, 2006
From AP (which still thinks

Abbas is a “moderate”):
“Accusing the Islamic militant
group Hamas of backtracking,
moderate Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas warned ...
that his efforts to set up a
national unity government
that is acceptable to the West
are ‘back to zero.’
“Prime Minister Ismail
Haniyeh of Hamas said ... he
would not lead a coalition that
recognizes Israel, dealing a
blow to Abbas’ attempts to
form a power-sharing govern-
ment between his ousted Fatah
group and Hamas.”
The Clinton Legacy

September 26, 2006
From CNN:
“During his interview with
Chris Wallace on ‘FOX News
Sunday,’ President Clinton also
said he came the closest to
killing bin Laden and suggested
that his administration took the
threat of terrorism more serious-
ly than the Bush administration
did before the September 11,
2001, attacks. ...
“US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice has taken on
former President Clinton,
strongly rejecting that notion. ...
“‘The notion that somehow for
eight months the Bush adminis-
tration sat there and didn’t do
that is just flatly false.’ But Rice
told the [New York] Post that
‘we were not left a comprehen-
sive strategy to fight Al Qaeda.’”
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Bailing Out
September 28, 2006
From CNN:
“For Republicans, the
[National Intelligence
Estimate] report provides more
evidence that Iraq is central to
the war on terrorism and can’t
be abandoned without giving
jihadists a crucial victory.
“For Democrats, the report
furthers their argument that
the 2003 Iraq invasion has
inflamed anti-US sentiments
in the Muslim world and left
the US less safe.”
I think they’re both missing
the bigger threat: Iran, which
has been waging a war against
us for decades, from the 1979
taking of American hostages to
today’s support of the
insurgency in Iraq.
Stone Cold
October 1, 2006
From CNN:
“Filmmaker Oliver Stone
blasted President George W.
Bush ... saying he has ‘set
America back 10 years.’
“Stone added that he is
‘ashamed for my country’ over
the war in Iraq and the US
policies in response to the
attacks of September 11. ...
“‘We did not fight back in the
same way that the British
fought the IRA or the Spanish
government fought the
Basques here. Terrorism is a
manageable action. It can be
lived with,’ said Stone.”
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Beast of Burden
October 3, 2006

“[I]f you want to have a debate
over how to fight and win the
War on Terrorism, you’ll have
to have it within the right. The
left contributes nothing but
proposals for surrender,
appeasement, and passivity. As
far as the war is concerned,
that ‘D’ next to a candidate’s
name on the ballot stands for
‘defeat.’”
Attention Deficit
Disorder
October 5, 2006
As an election-time sex scandal

heated up around Republican
Rep. Mark Foley, Kim Jong Il
managed to get everyone’s
attention by detonating a
nuclear bomb a few days later.
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Saving Face
October 10, 2006
China would go back and

forth on supporting UN
sanctions against North Korea
because the two countries have
strong ties.
Survey Says
October 12, 2006
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Support System
October 15, 2006
Draw Me
October 17, 2006
In an address before a UN
conference entitled
“Cartooning for Peace: The
responsibility of political car-
toonists?”, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said:
“... [Cartoons] are no laughing
matter: they have the power to
inform, and also to offend.
Short of physical pain, few
things can hurt you more
directly than a caricature of
yourself, of a group you belong
to, or–perhaps worst–of a
person you deeply respect. ...
“If we banned all offensive
cartoons, we should make our
newspapers and websites very
dull, and deprive ourselves of
an important form of social
and political comment.”
He advocates self-censorship.
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Savoir-Farce
October 19, 2006
Federal Hold ’em

October 24, 2006

press release:
“On Oct. 13 President Bush
signed into law the Unlawful
Internet Gambling
Enforcement Act, a measure
restricting Internet gambling.
“‘This measure, which requires
financial institutions to block
credit card and other payments
to Internet wagering
businesses, is an infringement
on our rights,’ said Dr. Yaron
Brook, executive director of the
Ayn Rand Institute. ...
“‘The government has no right
to prohibit adults from
[gambling]—on the Internet or
anywhere else—and no right to
prohibit businesses from
offering gambling opportunities
to potential customers.’”
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No Fare
October 26, 2006
From the Star-Tribune:

“The taxi controversy at the
Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport has
caught the nation’s attention.
But the dispute may go deeper
than the quandary over whether
to accommodate Somali
Muslim cabdrivers who refuse
to carry passengers carrying
alcohol. Behind the scenes, a
struggle for power and religious
authority is apparently playing
out.
“[The Metropolitan Airports
Commission received a] fatwa,
or religious edict. ... The fatwa
proclaims that ‘Islamic jurispru-
dence’ prohibits taxi drivers
from carrying passengers with
alcohol, ‘because it involves
cooperating in sin according to
the Islam.’”
Boo
October 30, 2006
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CARTOON JIHAD
CARTOON JIHAD
The C&F Mohammed Cartoons TIA: Over the years, I’ve come across TIA: Some people have dismissed the
By Allen Forkum some people who think editorial cartoons Danish cartoons as “juvenile,” and even
are trivial or unserious. But now we see a some of their defenders say that they’re
In February 2006, we dove headlong into set of cartoons becoming the center of, not just a joke, that they shouldn’t be taken
the controversy surrounding the publica- just a major international controversy, but too seriously. As fellow cartoonists, what
tion of Mohammed cartoons in Denmark. a clash of civilizations. Does this surprise do you think of them?
All of our Mohammed-related cartoons you at all?
are in this section along with two other AF: First of all, the cartoons collectively
features. In the bottom half of this page AF: Yes and no. Yes in that of all the have taken on a meaning apart from their
you’ll find the an excellent editorial by things published in the world that might individual merit. As soon as the fatwas and
Robert Tracinski, titled “Publish or be considered blasphemous of Islam— death threats were issued against the car-
Perish,” in which he explains why the con- from books to editorials to movies—it toonists, it no longer mattered if the car-
troversy was not merely a symbolic battle took just a few line drawings to ignite a toons were juvenile jokes or serious com-
for free speech. Robert published the firestorm. That was somewhat surprising, mentary. All that mattered was protecting
Mohammed cartoons in his magazine, mainly because John and I are in that line the right to create and publish “blasphe-
The Intellectual Activist. of work. But on the other hand, consider- mous” commentary. The atrocities of
ing the fundamentalist mentality con- September 11 should have demonstrated
The remainder of this introduction is a fronting us, it’s not surprising at all. The once and for all that Islamic fundamental-
previously unpublished interview with me Salman Rushdie affair was a precursor, ists want us dead. We must analyze, criti-
by Robert on the topic of the Mohammed and it’s apparent that things have been cize and even satirize the ideology that
cartoons and the response by Cox & allowed to get worse. motivates such barbarism.
Forkum: Continued on page 166
Publish or Perish writer is not simply some Arab fanatic in be worth spending much time debating it.
By Robert W. Tracinski the street carrying a placard that reads What is far more interesting is the fact
www.IntellectualActivist.com “Behead those who insult Islam.” What that such a debate is occurring, nonethe-
intimidates him is the feeling that, when less.
The central issue of the “cartoon jihad”— the beheaders come after him, he will be
the Muslim riots and death threats against on his own, with no allies or defenders— This is a fact from which the Western
a Danish newspaper that printed 12 car- that everyone else will be too cowardly to world can draw some crucially important
toons depicting Mohammed—is obvious. stick their necks out. conclusions.
The issue is freedom of speech: whether
our freedom to think, write, and draw is The answer, for publishers, is to tell the The West has long been aware that, while
to be subjugated to the “religious sensitivi- Muslim fanatics that they can’t single out we hold freedom of speech as a centerpiece
ties” of anyone who threatens us with any one author, or artist, or publication. of our liberty, the Muslim world does not
force. The answer is to show that we’re all united recognize this freedom. Before now, how-
in defying the fanatics. ever, our worlds have rarely collided. The
That is why it is necessary for every news- Muslims have not usually dared to extend
paper and magazine to re-publish those That’s what it means to show “solidarity” their dictatorial systems to control our
cartoons, as I will do in the next print by re-publishing the cartoons. The mes- own behavior within our own cities. The
issue of The Intellectual Activist. sage we need to send is: if you want to kill Salman Rushdie affair—the Ayatollah
anyone who publishes those cartoons, or Khomeini’s 1989 death edict against the
This is not merely a symbolic expression anyone who makes cartoons of “blasphemous” novelist—was an ominous
of support; it is a practical countermeasure Mohammed, then you’re going to have to warning, but Americans did not take it
against censorship. Censorship—especially kill us all. If you make war on one inde- seriously.
the violent, anarchic type threatened by pendent mind, you’re making war on all
Muslim fanatics—is effective only when it of us. And we’ll fight back. Now, seventeen years later, the Muslim
can isolate a specific victim, making him fanatics are making it clear: you don’t have
feel as if he alone bears the brunt of the But the issue of freedom of speech is too to come to our country, you don’t have to
danger. What intimidates an artist or clear, and too well settled, in the West, to be a Muslim. Even in your own countries
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Image Problem
January 31, 2006
A Right to Blasphemy
February 5, 2006
This cartoon was directly

inspired by a photograph from
the cartoon protests in
London. A sign said “Behead
Those Who Insult Islam.”
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and under your own laws, you will not be made the right kind of deals with Saddam Note how The New York Times—like
safe from our intimidation. Hussein, or with the Iranian regime, or many other left-leaning newspapers—
with the Syrian regime, then the dictator- hides behind the evasion that the Danish
For the whole Western world, this is an ships over there would have no impact on cartoons are “silly” or “juvenile.” On the
opportunity to learn an important truth us over here. contrary: the best of the Danish cartoons
about the goal of the Islamists. Their goal provided a far more serious, hard-hitting,
is not to achieve any specific political But we can now see that the anti-Danish thought-provoking commentary than has
demand or settlement. Their goal is sub- riots did not explode spontaneously; they been provided in the pages of these same
mission: our submission to their will, to were instigated by the dictators, by the newspapers. While the mainstream media
their laws, to their dictatorship—our sub- regimes in Iran and Syria. To their credit, has drooled that Islam is “a religion of
mission, not just to one demand, but to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh peace”—in the midst of yet another
any demand the Muslim mobs care to Rasmussen and now US Secretary of State Muslim war—it was left to Danish car-
make. Condoleezza Rice have been pointing out toonists to suggest that Mohammed him-
this connection. The lesson for Europe: if self, and the religion he represents, might
Europe particularly needs to learn this you accommodate and appease the dicta- be the bomb that has set off all of this vio-
lesson. The Europeans have deluded tors, they won’t leave you alone. Having lence.
themselves into thinking that this is our gotten some of what they want, they will
fight. If only Israel weren’t so intransigent, But the prize for most abject surrender to
if only the US weren’t so belligerent, they Muslim dictatorship has to go to the leftist
told themselves—if only those cowboys The goal of Islamists is academics. The first to decry the Bush
didn’t insist on stirring up trouble, we administration as a creeping “fascist” dic-
could all live in peace with the Muslims.
submission: our submission tatorship, they are, perversely, the first to
And they have deluded themselves into to their will, to their laws, fawn in admiration before the world’s
thinking that they can seek a separate to their dictatorship—our actual fascists. If you think that’s an exag-
peace, that having the Danish flag on your geration, read an op-ed in Sunday’s New
backpack—as one bewildered young Dane submission, not just to one York Times by Stanley Fish, a famous
described it—would guarantee that you demand, but to any “Postmodernist” university professor and
could go anywhere in the world and be defender of “political correctness.” Fish
regarded as safe, as innocuous.
demand the Muslim mobs writes:
care to make.
Now the Europeans know better. With Strongly held faiths are exhibits in liberal-
cries of “Death to Israel” and “Death to ism’s museum; we appreciate them, and we
congratulate ourselves for affording them a
America” now being joined by cries of come after you and take the rest. Europe
space, but should one of them ask of us
“Death to Denmark,” every honest ought to have learned that lesson, at terri- more than we are prepared to give—ask for
European can now see that they are in this ble cost, in 1939; this ought to refresh deference rather than mere respect—it will
fight, too—and they are closer to the front their memory. be met with the barrage of platitudinous
lines than we are. Threats against arguments that for the last week have filled
American cartoonists, when anyone both- If we want to know why these lessons have the pages of every newspaper in the coun-
ers to make them, are toothless; there is no not been learned before now, the cartoon try. ...
mob of violent young Muslims in the jihad also gives us clues to the answer.
United States to carry them out. European Note that those who are supposed to help [T]he editors who have run the cartoons
do not believe that Muslims are evil infi-
writers and filmmakers, by contrast, are us learn those lessons—the left-leaning
dels who must either be converted or van-
already being murdered in the streets. The intellectuals and newspaper editors, the quished. They do not publish the offend-
first people to find themselves living under people who have traditionally posed as the ing cartoons in an effort to further some
the sword of a would-be Muslim caliphate brave defenders of free speech—have been religious or political vision; they do it gra-
are Europeans, not Americans. the first to collapse in abject submission to tuitously, almost accidentally. Concerned
Muslim sensibilities. The New York Times, only to stand up for an abstract princi-
The lesson here is not just that the Islamist for example, dismissed the cartoons as ple—free speech—they seize on whatever
ideology of dictatorship is a threat to “juvenile” and explained that refusing to content happens to come their way and use
Europe. It is also that the dictatorships publish even a single image of the cartoons it as an example of what the principle
should be protecting. The fact that for
themselves are a threat. The advocates of “seems a reasonable choice for news orga-
others the content may be life itself is
cynical European “realpolitik” deluded nizations that usually refrain from gratu- beside their point.
themselves into thinking that if they just itous assaults on religious symbols.”
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Western Dhimmitude
February 7, 2006
Must-See TV
February 9, 2006
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“This is itself a morality—the morality of a basis for laws against abortion and homo- support among Muslims:
withdrawal from morality in any strong, sexuality, and for the subordination of sci-
insistent form. It is certainly different from ence to religion, demanding that this be a In a wired world, there aren’t any inconse-
the morality of those for whom the Danish “nation under God” rather than a “nation quential actions, and everything is grist for
cartoons are blasphemy and monstrously the propagandists among the jihadists.
under Darwin.”
evil. And the difference, I think, is to the That doesn’t mean censorship, or even self-
credit of the Muslim protesters and to the censorship. Only a bit of reflection before
discredit of the liberal editors.” And so we have seen a few prominent con-
rushing off to start new battles which
servatives falter badly in the cartoon jihad. divert attention from those already under
For years, the left has told us that the Prominent neoconservative scion John way. There is a chasm of difference
foundation of freedom is subjectivism; if Podhoretz wrote a column in the New between serious commentary on the
you are never certain that you are right, York Post that sounds an awful lot like Islamic challenge facing Europe and the
you will never be certain enough to Stanley Fish’s column quoted above: West ... and crude, sweeping anti-Muslim
propaganda. It isn’t necessary to defend the
“impose” your views on others. But will
For many people, the way to grant latter in order to uphold and praise the
you be certain enough to defend your former.
Muslims the recognition they crave is to
mind against those who want to impose
patronize them—to give them nice little
their beliefs on you? If Fish is any indica- nods and winks and talk about what a nice The weakness of the conservatives is that
tion, the answer is “no.” Note how he religion they have. That kind of recogni- they think the essence of the West is our
bows with almost superstitious awe before tion is unsatisfying and condescending. religion, our “Judeo-Christian tradi-
the fanaticism of the Muslim mobs, while The impulse behind the original publication”—rather than our Enlightenment
describing the old-fashioned liberals’ tion of the cartoons in Denmark last legacy of individual rights and unfettered
defense of free speech as hypocritical, September was to cut through the conde-
reason. Conservatives try to evade the
superficial, “condescending.” scension. They were literally provocative—
designed to provoke discussion about how clash between religious authority and free-
to deal with the phenomenon that Carsten dom of thought by claiming that religion
And now the “hate crimes” laws pioneered provides the moral basis for liberty. But
Juste, the editor of the newspaper that
by the left in the name of political correct- published them, called the “self-censorship the clash cannot be avoided, and conserva-
ness are being invoked by Muslims to sup- which rules large parts of the Western tives are forced to choose where they will
press publication of the Mohammed car- world.” draw the line: where respect for religious
toons by a Canadian newspaper. The prohibitions, in their view, takes prece-
intellectuals of the left, having built a rep- Well, as Juste and his staff have learned to dence over respect for the individual
utation as defenders of free speech by their sorrow, while some of that self-
mind. On this issue—involving a religion
striking a pose of defiance against innocu- censorship may be the result of cowardly
political correctness, some of it is clearly alien to American traditions—most con-
ous threats at home, have now become the servatives have had no problem drawing
due to simple prudence. Juste and his
leading advocates for self-imposed submis- the line in favor of freedom. But will they
underlings have been in grave physical
sion to the Muslim hordes abroad. danger for months, ever since the cartoons draw a different line when their own reli-
were published. And it would not be too gious dogmas are challenged?
Interestingly, intellectuals on the right much to say that they and the world would
have now become the loudest, most stri- have been better off if they had exercised a This is the final lesson of the cartoon
dent voices in defense of free speech, for little more self-protective caution in the jihad. The real issue at stake is not just
which they deserve our admiration. first place.
censorship versus freedom, but something
Blogger Michelle Malkin has waged a par- much deeper: the need to recognize the
ticularly effective crusade on this issue. Meanwhile, Hugh Hewitt—a much more real essence of the West. The distinctive
And she is not the only one. dedicated religious conservative—practi- power and vibrancy of our culture, the
cally squirms with discomfort at the idea source of our liberty, our happiness, and
But the right has its own contradictions, of someone criticizing religion. He echoes our unprecedented prosperity, is our
its own source of sympathy with the the idea that the Danish editors were “irre- Enlightenment tradition of regard for the
enemy. For years, conservative intellectuals sponsible” for printing the cartoons unfettered reasoning mind, left free to
have been demanding greater “sensitivity” because they could have predicted that it follow the evidence wherever it leads.
to “religious sensibilities”—at least, to the would “provoke” a violent reaction—but
religious sensibilities of Christians—and he adds a more pro-American gloss to it. And this controversy has given our minds
calling for a great role for religion in the He says that the cartoons were irresponsi- plenty of evidence to follow, and plenty of
“public square.” The have waged a long ble because the enemy will use them as fearless conclusions to draw. •
crusade to allow religion to serve as the propaganda to incite riots and try to gain
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Overboard
February 13, 2006
This cartoon was based on the

Howard Pyle illustration
“Walking the Plank” (1887),
which he created for Harper’s
magazine. John reinterpreted
the cartoon for the cover of
this book. If you compare
them, you’ll notice some
differences in the details.
Flimflammable
February 16, 2006
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Toonophobia
February 21, 2006
In the name of parody, we’ve
taken quite a few liberties with
other people’s cartoons. To
give credit where credit is due:
The cartoon features four of
the original Danish
Mohammed cartoons pub-
lished in Jyllands-Posten. The
artists are (left to right): Claus
Seidel, Rasmus Sand Høyer,
Peder Bundgaard, and Kurt
Westergaard.
The cartoon pigs are (left to
right): “Olivia” by Ian
Falconer, “Miss Piggy” by Jim
Henson, “Porky Pig” by Bob
Clampett (Warner Bros.), and
“Piglet” by A. A. Milne and
Disney.
The original cartoon was in
full color.
Sects and Violence

February 26, 2006
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Life and Limb
March 2, 2006
Graven Images
April 1, 2006
No, you didn’t get a bad

book. Those line effects are
intentional. This cartoon was
used as an April Fools’ Day
joke. Even after I put an expla-
nation directly under the car-
toon, I continued to get
e-mails about it for days.
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Seller Beware
April 2, 2006
Continued from page 158 TIA: On your own blog, how did you many in the West and the silence of
Any self-imposed censorship about Islam respond to the “cartoon jihad”? “moderate” Muslims.
is suicidal.
AF: So far, we’ve created seven or eight TIA: All right, I have to ask: what’s the
That said, individually the cartoons vary cartoons on the subject, many of them deal with the pigs?
in quality as editorial cartoons, from sim- depicting John’s own Mohammed carica-
plistic to pointed—though I hasten to ture or those from the Danish cartoons. AF: Yes, we have used pigs a few times in
note that some of the cartoons were these cartoons. Well, Muslims consider
merely meant to be portraits of pigs “unclean” animals, and some
Mohammed, though nonetheless “blas- We’ve emphasized that Muslims have tried to impose their sensi-
phemous.” bility on non-Muslims. We figure if
the “cartoon jihad” is an Islamists are going to ban images of Piglet
The only cartoon I would single out is assault on free speech, [see cartoon on page 77], then we were
Kurt Westergaard’s “bomb turban.” It’s but we’ve covered other going to fight back with cartoon pigs.
perfectly iconic in its execution, and it’s
also provocative to those in the West who aspects as well, such as TIA: Have you received any death threats
say that associating Islam with terrorism is the complicity of many in or violent reaction to your cartoons on this
“bigoted” and “racist.” The knee-jerk issue?
“politically correct” reaction is to claim the
the West and the silence
cartoon is a smear against all Muslims. of “moderate” Muslims. AF: None. In fact, the only criticisms I’ve
Yet by directly linking the originator of seen of our Mohammed-related cartoons
Islam with a modern-day bomb, were from leftists. •
Westergaard has provoked a much-needed Obviously, as cartoonists, we’re in the
discussion about Islamic ideology and its unique position to answer the Islamists
use of force today, and hopefully about with still more cartoons. We’ve empha-
faith and force in general. The violent sized that the “cartoon jihad” is an assault
reaction by some Muslims to the Danish on free speech, but we’ve covered other
cartoons only proved his point. aspects as well, such as the complicity of
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By Allen Forkum crime to deny the Holocaust. Challenging depict Mohammed without fear of violent
European newspapers to publish Muslim reprisals. The ensuing riots, death
This section is an edited version of a post Holocaust-denying cartoons was an threats, and embassy burnings all spectac-
from our Web site by the same title. For links attempt to turn the tables regarding “free ularly demonstrated that Islamists failed
explaining many of the assertions in this speech.” the test. A sign at the London protests
article, please refer to the original post which made the Islamist message clear; it read
also includes cartoons and photographs not FREE-SPEECH SMOKE SCREEN “Behead Those Who Insult Islam.”
included here. The Iranian challenge, however, was an
obvious ruse. The mullahs and their sup- There would be no such Western reaction
The image at right contains a hidden mes- porters had not suddenly become free- to the anti-Semitic Holocaust cartoons.
sage critical of the Iranian regime. If you speech advocates troubled by European No riots by mobs of Jews. No embassy
want to attempt to discover the message, do anti-holocaust denial laws. Nor did the burnings by Israelis. But when it comes to
so before reading this article, which reveals existence of such laws, as wrong as they criticizing Islam, a chilling threat of terror
what is hidden. are, suddenly diminish the broad lack of remains.
basic freedom in Iran’s Islamic theocracy,
THE CONTEST which is known for its ruthless suppression Onkar Ghate, a writer for the Ayn Rand
In February 2006, Iran’s largest-selling of dissent and systematic abuse of rights. Institute, explained why such terror is the
daily newspaper, Hamshahri, announced Even the newspaper sponsoring the con- antithesis of free speech:
an international Holocaust cartoon contest is controlled by the municipal govern-
test in retaliation for the “blasphemous” ment of Tehran. There may be expression Freedom of speech means the right to
Mohammed cartoons (see in Iran, but it it is not free. express one’s ideas without danger of phys-
ical coercion from anyone. This freedom
www.MohammedCartoons.com).
includes the right to make movies, write
If free speech includes anything, it books, draw pictures, voice political opin-
The Mohammed caricatures were pub- includes the right to speak against one’s ions—and satirize religion. This right flows
lished by the Danish newspaper Jyllands- own government, which can have dire from the right to think: the right to
Posten as a test of free expression. An consequences in Iran. Not surprisingly, observe, to follow the evidence, to reach
author of a book about Mohammed told even cartoons can get one in trouble. the conclusions you judge the facts war-
the Danish newspaper that he was unable rant—and then to convey your thoughts to
to find artists willing to draw Mohammed In 2003, a newspaper was banned and others.
for fear of Muslim retaliation, because employees were arrested after publishing a
In a free society, anyone angered by some-
depicting Mohammed is forbidden by cartoon perceived as insulting to the one else’s ideas has a simple and powerful
Islam. That fear proved justified when the Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic recourse: don’t buy his books, watch his
Mohammed caricatures provoked world- Revolution. It didn’t matter that it was an movies, or read his newspapers. If one
wide riots and death threats to the car- American cartoon from 1937 depicting a judges his ideas dangerous, argue against
toonists. Supreme Court justice. them. The purveyor of evil ideas is no
threat to those who remain free to counter
The Iranian newspaper likewise invoked a More recently, two Iranian newspapers them with rational ones.
free-speech rationale for its contest: were shut down after publishing a cartoon
But the moment someone decides to
that ridiculed Iranian President Mahmoud answer those he finds offensive with a knife
Does the West extend freedom of expres- Ahmadinejad for saying he felt a halo sur- or a homemade explosive, not an argu-
sion to the crimes committed by the round him as he addressed transfixed ment, he removes himself from civilized
United States and Israel, or an event such
world leaders at the UN. society.1
as the Holocaust? Or is its freedom only
for insulting religious sanctities?
Even the director of the Holocaust contest And therein lies the real reason for the
The newspaper challenged European said he would refuse “insulting” cartoons, Iranian contest, which was announced
newspapers to publish the winners of the and it was later reported that cartoons crit- during the heat of the “cartoon jihad.”
Iranian contest, which would likely ical of Ahmadinejad were indeed rejected. The sponsors apparently hoped that
include cartoons that questioned the mocking the murder of six million Jews
Holocaust. The very rules for the contest So much for free speech in Iran. would divert attention away from the vio-
referred to the Holocaust as an “alleged lent Muslim reaction to the Mohammed
historical event.” Why would questioning But government censorship is not the only cartoons, that is, away from the fact that
of the Holocaust be an issue to Europeans? threat to free expression. The Danish car- Islamists readily use force against those who
Because in some European countries it is a toons were a test to see if one could simply criticize, insult, or reject Islam.
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In short, the Holocaust cartoon contest

was nothing but a grotesque attempt to
draw attention away from the thugs of
Islam.
TURNING THE TABLES

Since this battle was taking place in the
field of cartooning, we were eager to join
the fight. We posted the cartoon
“Undeniable” (page 102) and announced
that it was our entry in the contest. We
knew the cartoon would be ignored by the
judges. It was to be our way of answering
the Iranian’s propaganda ploy.
Then it occurred to me: What if we

entered to win? Would it be possible to
enter a cartoon with a dual message: one
message designed to appeal to the judges
and act as camouflage, and a second
hidden message designed to subvert the
contest itself?
If such a cartoon happened to win, the

government-run newspaper would dis-
tribute our message throughout Iran, and
other newspapers and Web sites might do
the same worldwide. Perhaps we could
accomplish what the government sup-
presses in Iran: harsh public criticism of
Ahmadinejad. Perhaps we could eclipse
the contest’s other cartoons, which were
predominately anti-Semitic slurs and
attempts to equate Nazis and Israelis. One
cartoon showed a Jewish vampire sucking
on a bag of Palestinian blood. Another
morphed the Star of David into a swastika.
Perhaps we could bring some focus back

to the real issue: the threat to Western
freedom posed by Islamists—in particular,
the Islamic Republic of Iran.
off the map.” When confronted recently, skewering the dove of peace.
AHMADINEJAD’S HOLOCAUST Ahmadinejad even refused to acknowl-
That a government-run Iranian newspa- edge the experience of a Dachau witness. In publicly denying the Holocaust,
per would host a “free speech” contest was An Iranian TV report on the exhibit Ahmadinejad became an open apologist
absurd enough. That they would host a stated of the Holocaust: “This was noth- for the Nazi genocide against the Jews. In
contest about the Holocaust was beyond ing but a myth—a myth about the killing threatening Israel with annihilation—and
absurd. of six million Jews.” Some cartoons in the in light of the Iran’s nuclear ambitions
exhibit echoed Ahmadinejad’s sentiment and Islamic imperialism—Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Ahmadinejad is infa- that the Holocaust is a lie used by Jews as is laying the groundwork for the next
mous for saying the Holocaust was a a weapon of war, showing long Pinocchio Adolf Hitler, if he’s not the next one
“myth” and that Israel should be “wiped noses knocking down buildings and himself.
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Robert Tracinski, editor and publisher of We had already created a number of car- Hitler caricature so that when turned
The Intellectual Activist, further explained toons critical of Ahmadinejad (see pages upside down, Hitler becomes
the parallels to WWII: 82 and 110). But the Holocaust contest Ahmadinejad.
presented a unique opportunity to further
We can’t avoid this war, because Iran highlight his similarities to Hitler and pos- The fact that Hitler’s face is so well-
won’t let us avoid it. That is the real analo-
sibly get our message past censors and into known provided room to distort his fea-
gy to the 1930s. Hitler came to power
espousing the goal of German world domi- an Iranian newspaper. tures to fit Ahmadinejad’s, which is why
nation, openly promising to conquer Hitler is so stylized. Hitler’s caricature had
neighboring nations through military force In political discussions, Nazi comparisons to be recognizable enough to allay suspi-
and to persecute and murder Europe’s are grossly misused, particularly by the cions about a trick picture, while at the
Jews. He predicted that the free nations of “antiwar” left which has made an industry same time be a trick picture. Ahmadinejad
the world would be too weak—too morally of comparing President Bush to Hitler. suffered a few distortions, too, such as his
weak—to stand up to him, and European Such a comparison renders the Holocaust forehead and his left eye (no, that’s not
and American leaders spent the 1930s rein- meaningless, for whatever Bush’s faults, he meant to be an eye patch).
forcing that impression. So Hitler kept
is no more the next genocidal mass mur-
advancing—the militarization of the
Rhineland in 1936, the Spanish bombing derer of Jews than Cindy Sheehan is the (The “Never Again” type seen on the pre-
campaign in 1937, the annexation of next secretary of defense. vious page’s image was added later, my
Austria and the invasion of Czechoslovakia way of making the reversible caricature a
in 1938, the invasion of Poland in 1939— On the other hand, Ahmadinejad, the stand-alone graphic for use outside of the
until the West finally, belatedly decided Iranian mullahs, and their weekly chants contest. The type was of course not includ-
there was no alternative but war. of “Death to Israel” would have made ed in the final cartoon submitted to the
Hitler envious. Holocaust contest.)
That is what is playing out today. Iran’s
theocracy has chosen, as the nation’s new
president, a religious fanatic who believes During the Hezbollah/Israel war, leftists, A Hitler/Ahmadinejad comparison would
in the impending, apocalyptic triumph of Islamists, and even Ahmadinejad himself hopefully leave an impression on
Islam over the infidels. He openly pro- accused Israel of being Nazi-like. Such Westerners as well as dissidents in the
claims his desire to create an Iranian-led atrocious moral equivalence requires a Middle East. But for Islamists this wasn’t
Axis that will unite the Middle East in the massive evasion of reality, including the exactly an insult, knowing that some of
battle against America, and he proclaims fact that it is Iran’s Hezbollah terrorists them parade around with “God Bless
his desire to “wipe Israel off the map,” who goose step and salute like Nazis while Hitler” signs.
telling an audience of Muslim leaders that
openly fighting to destroy the Jewish state.
“the main solution” to the conflict in
Lebanon is “the elimination of the Zionist In studying the cartoons posted at the
regime.” (Perhaps this would be better Yet the answer is not to dogmatically contest Web site, I noticed that devil and
translated as Ahmadinejad’s “final solu- eschew Nazi analogies because of their Satan analogies were common, especially
tion” to the problem of Israel.)2 misuse, for that would only serve to under- when depicting “enemies” like Jews and
mine any lessons we should have learned Danes. And Islamists have long referred to
Ahmadinejad’s “final solution” is motivat- from history. For the reasons stated above, America as “The Great Satan” and to
ed by religious fanaticism, which he I chose to apply the Hitler comparison to Israel as “The Little Satan.” Even though
demonstrated during his September 2005 someone who is truly earning it. such demonization gets no traction in
UN address. Middle East commentator America (where devils are used for food
Daniel Pipes analyzed Ahmadinejad’s THE HIDDEN MESSAGE logos and sports mascots), I decided to
speech and his obsession with preparations But how does one make such a compari- include horns for the Islamic fundamen-
for an Islamic messiah, concluding: son and hide it in a cartoon? There may be talists.
a number of ways, but the idea I hit upon
The most dangerous leaders in modern was a reversible caricature. We’ve all seen THE TROJAN HORSE
history are those (such as Hitler) equipped
topsy-turvy drawings.4 In these inversions Hiding Ahmadinejad in a Hitler caricature
with a totalitarian ideology and a mystical
belief in their own mission. Mahmoud you see one face right-side up and then a was one thing. A completely separate chal-
Ahmadinejad fulfills both these criteria, as different face upside down, such as a lenge was to devise a cartoon that would
revealed by his UN comments.3 young man and an old man. feature the caricature and be competitive
in the contest. Early concepts had Hitler
Pipes noted that Ahmadinejad’s 2006 UN But could such an inversion be created and Ahmadinejad down-playing the
speech had more of the same messianism. using two famous people? My results are Holocaust, which, though it fit them both
at right. I designed and illustrated the and the contest, would have been a
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distasteful cartoon to produce (see devel-

opmental sketches on the following page).
Eventually I realized that I could literally

frame the reversible caricature with a car-
toon about the illegality of Holocaust
denial, that is, create a camouflage cartoon
that exploits the contest’s “free expres-
sion” pretensions. Such a cartoon would
be an exaggerated comment on a fact
(some European countries do ban
Holocaust denial) rather than a cartoon
which itself denied or minimized the
Holocaust. At right is the full cartoon as
entered in the contest.
The kaffiyeh headdress, popularized by

Yasser Arafat, was used to invoke the
highly politicized Palestinian war against
Israel, which was another theme empha-
sized in the contest rules. The risk with
this approach was creating too mild a car-
toon. Would it be able to compete with
out-and-out anti-Semitism, Holocaust
denial, and moral equivalence?
We could only hope the camouflage car-

toon would act as a Trojan Horse for the
Ahmadinejad/Hitler caricature. My part-
ner John usually draws all our cartoons;
this time he illustrated everything around
my caricatures (frame, Palestinian, police-
man, and balloons), and he used a style
different from his usual cartooning. Early
versions also featured dialogue, but it
became clear that the fewer words the
better. The question marks and a prohibi- (which had a nice irony to it). But few online, and “Hugh Bradley” was not
tion symbol were the last aspects I devised Americans were entering the contest. I among the finalists.
in hopes of simplifying the cartoon and thought that maybe the Iranians would
making it more universally accessible. want to flaunt an American winner in We’ll never know why our stealth cartoon
America’s face. didn’t fully succeed. Was the hidden
One last trick: Our pseudonym for the image eventually discovered? Or did the
project was “Hugh Bradley,” which, I submitted the cartoon on May 11 as camouflage cartoon simply fail to appeal
though not random, has no special mean- “Hugh Bradley” from the United States. to the judges? I tend to think that the
ing. “Hb” was a convenient letter combi- In the e-mail I wrote: “Thank you for a hidden cartoon was not discovered.
nation to use for a reversible signature. chance to speak the truth.”
Upside down the signature reads as Finalist cartoons included Hitler/Nazi
“C+F.” ALSO-RANS comparisons involving Bush, Sharon,
On August 14, 204 finalists out of 1,193 Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and even Jews.
We could have entered the cartoon from entries were unveiled at an exhibit in But not all such comparisons were accept-
another country using a correspondingly Tehran, but it was not immediately clear ed into the contest, as revealed in this
fake name. We could have posed as an which cartoons were included. On report:
Iranian or a Frenchman or even a Dane September 6, the exhibition was posted
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[Shimon] Samuels said a member of the

Simon Wiesenthal Center submitted two
cartoons to Iran’s competition, depicting
Ahmadinejad as Hitler.
Samuels said the cartoons were sent back.
Our Ahmadinejad-as-Hitler cartoon was

not sent back, and our “name” was
included on the list of accepted partici-
pants throughout the contest. We consid-
er that to be a partial success.
Despite falling short of our ambitions, we

are proud of the illustration, and we
thought our regular visitors would enjoy
seeing the cartoon and reading the story
behind it. •
1. Onkar Ghate, “The Fear to Speak Comes

to America’s Shores” (The Ayn Rand Institute,
March 30, 2006)
2. Robert Tracinski, “Five Minutes to
Midnight” (The Intellectual Activist, August 10,
2006)
3. Daniel Pipes, “The Mystical Menace of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” (New York Sun,
January 10, 2006)
4. In researching this article, I found two
good sources of information on optical illu-
sions. PlanetPerplex.com is a fun Web site
where you can experience numerous images
such as ambiguous, impossible, hidden, and
upside-down illusions. Also, the book Masters
of Deception by Al Seckel is an excellent refer-
ence. Regarding inversions, Seckel wrote:
No one knows when inverted images were
first created, but they started to become
popular on coins during the Reformation.
These early topsy-turvy images typically
contained hidden political and theological
statements. ... [The coins] made fun of the
Pope, whose image when inverted would
turn into the devil. ... In the 19th century,
they took on a more amusing motif and
were very popular in advertisements and
puzzle cards.
Special thanks to Iran Press News and

Ardeshir Dolat for advice on Iran.
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GROUND ZERO
GROUND ZERO
The 9/11 Memorial Battle Foundation, Debra saw first-hand what and we had to do it on many fronts. ...
By Allen Forkum was happening and sounded the alarm.
Inspired, Cox & Forkum joined the fight Your visual commentary did, with a few
In June 2005, Debra Burlingame wrote a along with many others. The cartoons we strokes of a pen, what no word processing
program could do in thousands of words:
Wall Street Journal editorial (see below) created are featured in this section.
strike at the heart of the issue, mocking
warning that plans for the Ground Zero those who so arrogantly arrogated unto
memorial had been taken over by people Eventually the the plans were withdrawn, themselves the task of defining ‘what 9/11
with a leftist agenda. Debra had a personal the battle was won. We were honored to means in a larger historical context’ and in
interest in 9/11. Her brother was Charles receive this letter from Debra: a way that was utterly disrespectful to the
F. “Chic” Burlingame III, pilot of the sacrifice of 3,000 of our fellow citizens, not
[T]hank you for your important contribu- to mention the truth.
American Airlines flight 77 that was
tion to our fight at Ground Zero to keep
crashed into the Pentagon. the International Freedom Center from
hijacking the 9/11 memorial at the World Our thanks to Debra for leading the
As a member of the board of directors of Trade Center. We knew that in order to charge. It remains to be seen if an appro-
the World Trade Center Memorial succeed we had to keep up the pressure priate memorial will ever be built. •
The Great Ground Zero Heist yearning to return to that day. Rather than Tolerance over the sunken graves of the
By Debra Burlingame a respectful tribute to our individual and USS Arizona.
collective loss, they will get a slanted histo-
This editorial originally appeared in The ry lesson, a didactic lecture on the mean- The public will be confused at first, and
Wall Street Journal on June 8, 2005, and is ing of liberty in a post-9/11 world. They then feel hoodwinked and betrayed.
reprinted with permission. will be served up a heaping foreign policy Where, they will ask, do we go to see the
discussion over the greater meaning of September 11 Memorial? The World
On Memorial Day weekend, three Abu Ghraib and what it portends for the Trade Center Memorial Foundation will
Marines from the 24th Expeditionary country and the rest of the world. have erected a building whose only con-
Unit who had been wounded in Iraq were nection to September 11 is a strained,
joined by 300 other service members for a The World Trade Center Memorial intellectual one. While the IFC is getting
wreath-laying ceremony at the empty pit Cultural Complex will be an imposing edi- 300,000 square feet of space to teach us
of Ground Zero. The broken pieces of the fice wedged in the place where the Twin how to think about liberty, the actual
Twin Towers have long ago been cleared Towers once stood. It will serve as the pri- Memorial Center on the opposite corner
away. There are no faded flags or hand- mary “gateway” to the underground area of the site will get a meager 50,000 square
painted signs of national unity, no simple where the names of the lost are chiseled feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of
tokens of remembrance. So why do they into concrete. The organizers of its princi- sight and underground. Most of the cher-
come? What do they hope to see? pal tenant, the International Freedom ished objects which were salvaged from
Center (IFC), have stated that they intend Ground Zero in those first traumatic
The World Trade Center Memorial will to take us on “a journey through the histo- months will never return to the site. There
break ground this year. When those ry of freedom”—but do not be fooled into is simply no room. But the International
Marines return in 2010, the year it is thinking that their idea of freedom is the Freedom Center will have ample space to
scheduled to open, no doubt they will same as that of those Marines. To the present us with exhibits about Chinese
expect to see the artifacts that bring those IFC’s organizers, it is not only history’s tri- dissidents and Chilean refugees. These are
memories to life. They’ll want a vantage umphs that illuminate, but also its failures. important subjects, but for somewhere—
point that allows them to take in the sheer The public will have come to see 9/11 but anywhere—else, not the site of the worst
scope of the destruction, to see the footage will be given a high-tech, multimedia tuto- attack on American soil in the history of
and the photographs and hear the personal rial about man’s inhumanity to man, from the republic.
stories of unbearable heartbreak and Native American genocide to the lynch-
unimaginable courage. They will want the ings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow More disturbing, the Lower Manhattan
memorial to take them back to who they South, from the Third Reich’s Final Development Corp. is handing over mil-
were on that brutal September morning. Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond. lions of federal dollars and the keys to that
This is a history all should know and learn, building to some of the very same people
Instead, they will get a memorial that but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground who consider the post-9/11 provisions of
stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the Zero is like creating a Museum of the Patriot Act more dangerous than the
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Culture Complex
June 9, 2005
We had in mind the pale blue

of the United Nations for
“moral equivalence blue.”
You can see a little UN logo
on the paint bucket.
Step Right Up
June 19, 2005
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terrorists that they were enacted to appre- • Anthony Romero, executive director of on the “perfect platform” where the
hend—people whose inflammatory claims the ACLU, who is pushing IFC organizers domestic and foreign policy they despise
of a deliberate torture policy at for exhibits that showcase how civil liber- was born.
Guantanamo Bay are undermining this ties in this country have been curtailed
country’s efforts to foster freedom else- since September 11. Less welcome to the Freedom Center are
where in the world. the actual beneficiaries of that policy.
• Eric Foner, radical-left history professor According to The New York Times, early
The driving force behind the IFC is Tom at Columbia University who, even as the renderings of the center’s exhibit area cre-
Bernstein, the dynamic co-founder of the bodies were being pulled out of a smolder- ated by its Norwegian architectural firm
Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment ing Ground Zero, wrote, “I’m not sure depicted a large mural of an Iraqi voter.
Complex who made a fortune financing which is more frightening: the horror that That image was replaced by a photograph
Hollywood movies. But his capital ven- engulfed New York City or the apocalyp- of Martin Luther King and Lyndon
tures appear to have funded his true call- tic rhetoric emanating daily from the Johnson when the designs were made
ing, the pro bono work he has done his White House.” This is the same man who public. What does it mean that the “story
entire adult life—as an activist lawyer in participated in a “teach-in” at Columbia of humankind’s quest for freedom” does-
the human rights movement. He has been to protest the Iraq war, during which a n’t include the kind that is fought for with
a proud member of Human Rights First colleague exhorted students with, “The the blood and tears of patriots? It means, I
since it was founded—as the Lawyers only true heroes are those who find ways fear, that this is a freedom center which
Committee for Human Rights—27 years to defeat the US military,” and called for will not use the word “patriot” the way
ago, and has served as its president for the “a million Mogadishus.” The IFC website our Founding Fathers did.
last 12. has posted Mr. Foner’s statement warning
that future discussions should not be The so-called lessons of September 11
The public has a right to know that it was “overwhelmed” by the IFC’s location at should not be force-fed by ideologues
Mr. Bernstein’s organization, joined by the World Trade Center site itself. hoping to use the memorial site as nothing
the American Civil Liberties Union, that more than a powerful visual aid to pro-
filed a lawsuit three months ago against • George Soros, billionaire founder of mote their agenda. Instead of exhibits and
Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of detainees Open Society Institute, the nonprofit symposiums about Internationalism and
in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Human foundation that helps fund Human Rights Global Policy we should hear the story of
Rights First that filed an amicus brief on First and is an early contributor to the the courageous young firefighter whose
behalf of alleged “dirty bomber” Jose IFC. Mr. Soros has stated that the pictures body, cut in half, was found with his legs
Padilla, an American citizen who the of Abu Ghraib “hit us the same way as the entwined around the body of a woman.
Justice Department believes is an al Qaeda terrorist attack itself.” Recovery personnel concluded that
recruit. It was Human Rights First that because of their positions, the young fire-
has called for a 9/11-style commission to While Gov. George Pataki, Mayor fighter was carrying her.
investigate the alleged torture of detainees, Michael Bloomberg and LMDC are
complete with budget authority, subpoena focusing their attention on the economic The people who visit Ground Zero in five
power and the ability to demand that wit- revival of lower Manhattan, there has been years will come because they want to pay
nesses testify under oath. no meaningful oversight with respect to their respects at the place where heroes
the “cash cow of Ground Zero.” died. They will come because they want to
In fact, the IFC’s list of those who are Meanwhile, the Freedom Center’s orga- remember what they saw that day, because
shaping or influencing the content and nizers are quickly lining up individuals, they want a personal connection, to touch
programming for their Ground Zero institutions and university provosts with the place that touched them, the place that
exhibit includes a who’s who of the this arrogant appeal: “The memorial to the rallied the nation and changed their lives
human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed victims will be the heart of the site, the forever. I would wager that, if given a
world: IFC will be the brain.” Indeed, they have choice, they would rather walk through
declared the World Trade Center that dusty hangar at JFK Airport where
• Michael Posner, executive director at Memorial the perfect “magnet” for the 1,000 World Trade Center artifacts are
Human Rights First who is leading the world’s “great leaders, thinkers and stored than be herded through the
worldwide “Stop Torture Now” campaign activists” to participate in lectures and International Freedom Center’s multi-
focused entirely on the US military. He symposiums that examine the “founda- million-dollar insult.
has stated that Mr. Rumsfeld’s refusal to tions of free and open societies.” Put less
resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scan- grandly, these activists and academics are Ground Zero has been stolen, right from
dal is “irresponsible and dishonorable.” salivating at the prospect of holding forth under our noses. How do we get it back? •
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Art of Desecration
July 13, 2005
Sense of Proportion
July 31, 2005
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Monumental Mistake
August 23, 2005
Crescent of Embrace
September 15, 2005
This cartoon was was not part

of the Ground Zero fight, but
I included it here because it
involved another 9/11 memo-
rial. A controversy arose when
it was revealed that the most
prominent feature of a memo-
rial to honor the heroes of
flight 93 involved red trees in
the shape of a crescent. The
memorial, which is to be at the
crash site in Shanksville, Pa.,
was called the “Crescent of
Embrace.”
A crescent is the symbol of

Islam, and considering the roll
played be Islam in the attack,
we agreed with critics that,
regardless of whether it was
intentional or not, such a
symbol should not be in the
memorial.
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IFC No Evil
September 25, 2005
Ground 0
June 11, 2006
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COVERS
Illustrations for The Intellectual Activist magazine
and AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report newspapers
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Left vs. Right vs. Liberty
March 2, 2005
This and the next five illustrations

appeared as cover art on The
Intellectual Activist magazine. Date
indicates when art was finished.
Faith vs. Freedom

August 29, 2005
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The Greenspan Standard
November 15, 2005
The Looters
October 13, 2005
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Five Minutes to Midnight
August 21, 2006
The Fantasy World

of the Realists
October 27, 2006
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Offering More
May 2006
This and the next three illustrations

appeared on the covers of
AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report
newspapers in the month indicated.
All were in color.
DRP Dissatisfaction
June 2006
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Learning from Others’
Mistakes
September 2006
Reducing the Tax Bite

November 2006
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By John Cox
CARICATURES
Abdullah II Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
188 / B L A C K & W H I T E W O R L D I I I The next five pages feature some of John’s weekly Newsmaker Caricatures.
Muqtada al-Sadr Benedict XVI

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John Bolton Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez Michael Chertoff

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Jacques Chirac Bill Clinton
Howard Dean Muammar Gaddafi

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Charles Philip Arthur George Michael Hayden
Saddam Hussein Michael Jackson

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Junichiro Koizumi Joe Lieberman
Cynthia McKinney Vladimir Putin

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George Washington Alexander Hamilton
Caricatures from a 2007 calendar project for American Compass book-of-the-month club B L A C K & W H I T E W O R L D I I I / 193
Robert E. Lee Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Chris Muir / www.DayByDay.com Glenn Reynolds / www.InstaPundit.com
194 / B L A C K & W H I T E W O R L D I I I Caricature sketches of conference attendees at BlogNashville in May 2005
Todd A / www.todd-a.com Self-portrait

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BUSTER McNUTT
Gag cartoons for the Spare Parts humor column
in AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report newspapers
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Checking It Twice
November 16, 2004
Neutral
December 14, 2004
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Bumpers
March 23, 2005
Gasaconda
April 20, 2005
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Bumper Crop
June 23, 2005
Strictly Enforced
July 20, 2005
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Suburban Crude
September 21, 2005
RoboCab
October 19, 2005
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Geezermobile
November 16, 2005
Untiring
December 16, 2005
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Cowtalytic Converter
January 18, 2006
RV Heaven
February 25, 2006
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Porta Potty
March 22, 2006
Mixed Hail
April 16, 2006
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IED
June 18, 2006
Model Behavior
July 20, 2006
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Driving While Ancient
September 21, 2006
Clean Err
October 15, 2006
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MISCELLANEOUS
Projects for ourselves and others
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Vote Often
December 5, 2004
Cox & Forkum were nominat-

ed as finalists in the 2005
Weblog Awards in the catego-
ry of Best Humor/Comics
Blog. We didn’t win, but as
you can see in the following
two cartoons, we had a great
time campaigning against
fellow cartoonist and friend
Chris Muir at Day by Day
(www.DayByDay.com).
Vote by Vote
December 9, 2005
These are Chris’s Day by Day

characters (left to right) Sam,
Damon, and Zed.
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Ballot Boxing
December 12, 2005
Critical Mass
April 23, 2006
In truth, I probably should

have been in this cartoon, too,
nagging John about
something.
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Project Valour-IT
November 5, 2005
From our post:

“Project Valour-IT, in
memory of SFC William V.
Ziegenfuss, provides voice-
controlled software and laptop
computers to wounded
soldiers, sailors, airmen and
marines recovering from hand
and arm injuries or amputa-
tions at major military medical
centers. Operating laptops by
speaking into a microphone,
our wounded heroes are able
to send and receive messages
from friends and loved ones,
surf the ’Net, and communi-
cate with buddies still in the
field without having to press a
key or move a mouse.”
Go to SoldiersAngels.org for
more information.
98th Maintenance
May 15, 2006
We created this graphic for the

Family Readiness Group of the
Army’s 98th Maintenance
Company (Alaska), which was
deployed to Iraq at the time.
The FRG wanted to sell
t-shirts to raise funds for
family support and home-
coming projects.
The wolverine is their mascot.
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Blogalicious
June 22, 2006
Along with many other

bloggers, John and I were
asked by Deborah Uhler to
contribute a recipe to her
book, Blogalicious. John
submitted the recipe for his
Tonic Collins; mine was a
corn casserole. But we couldn’t
resist the chance to create a
cartoon on the matter. (John
managed to sneak in an
Uncle Sam cameo.)
We also ended up designing
and illustrating the cover (see
illustration below).
Blogalicious cover art

August 21, 2006
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2005 Jihad Watch
Awards
December 22, 2005
We created this graphic for

Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch
(www.jihadwatch.org).
Depicted are (left to right)
Tom Tancredo, Oriana
Fallaci, Robert Spencer,
George Galloway, and Ramsey
Clark.
Notice the differences in the
awards for Anti-Dhimmi and
Dhimmi.
Hot Air
March 30, 2006
This is a mascot we created for

Michelle Malkin’s video-
oriented Web site Hot Air
(www.hotair.com).
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2004 Fiskie Award
January 15, 2005
Charles Johnson at
Little Green Footballs
(www.littlegreenfootballs.com/
weblog) gives an annual award
to the person voted by his blog
readers to be the “idoitarian
of the year.” The “Fiskie” is
named after journalist
Robert Fisk. Previous winners
were Jimmy Carter and
Rachel Corrie.
The 2004 Fiskie went to
Michael Moore. The 2005
Fiskie went to Cindy Sheehan
(below).
2005 Fiskie Award

January 11, 2006
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Menage a Blog
April 14, 2005
Gorilla in the Midst

April 1, 2005
This cartoon for April Fools’

Day appeared on our site with
the dialogue balloons and sign
blank. We opened our com-
ments section and said nothing
else. At first people assumed
something was wrong but
quickly figured out they
needed to supply the lines. We
picked the one we liked best.
Joe Lederer managed to get
“April Fools” into the cartoon
in a way that makes sense. And
considering that we had noth-
ing in mind originally, that’s
impressive.
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VW Marooned
September 13, 2005
These are a couple of cartoons

we created for LaBov &
Beyond, an agency for
Volkswagen. These two
cartoons were intentionally left
blank so that VW owners
could fill them in.
My line for this one was:
“I ordered a MAROON Jetta,
not MAROONED!”
VW Alien
September 19, 2005
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The Ayn Rand Centenary
February 1, 2005
February 2, 2005, marked the

100th anniversary of the birth of
Ayn Rand, the novelist and
philosopher who founded
Objectivism. If you haven’t
already, you owe it to yourself to
read Ayn Rand’s writings, both
fiction (such as Atlas Shrugged
and The Fountainhead) and
non-fiction (such as The Virtue
of Selfishness and Capitalism:
The Unknown Ideal). Her ideas
are needed now more than ever.
As Onkar Ghate of The Ayn
Rand Institute wrote:
“The key to Rand’s popularity is
that she appeals to the idealism
of youth. She wrote in 1969:
‘There is a fundamental convic-
tion which some people never
acquire, some hold only in their
youth, and a few hold to the
end of their days—the convic-
tion that ideas matter.’ The
nature of this conviction? ‘That
ideas matter means that knowl-
edge matters, that truth matters,
that one’s mind matters. And
the radiance of that certainty, in
the process of growing up, is the
best aspect of youth.’...
“‘To take ideas seriously,’ Rand
states, ‘means that you intend to
live by, to practice, any idea you
accept as true,’ that you recog-
nize ‘that truth and knowledge
are of crucial, personal, selfish
importance to you and to your
own life.’ ...
“The advice Rand offers the
young? Think, reason, logically
consider matters of truth and
morality. And then, because
your own life and happiness
depend on it, pursue unwaver-
ingly the true and the good. On
this approach, the moral and the
practical unite. On this
approach, there exists no temp-
tation to think that life on earth
requires compromise, the
halfway, the middle of the
road.”
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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
We’ve included interviews in our previous cartoons, we used the fax machine, which cartoons. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to
books, but we wanted to try something a meant that you had to illustrate the car- think of ideas that are worth doing! But I
little different this time. Here you’ll find an toons in a certain manner. think we push the envelope fairly often in
interview between me and John. It’s based trying to get the best ideas into cartoons.
on the transcript of a phone conversation we John: Real simple, a real simple manner.
had on October 5, 2006. We tried to cover John: Regardless if I can do it or not.
issues that had not been broached in prior Allen: It was a style that reproduced well
interviews by asking inside questions, that is, through the fax machine. Basically we Allen: Yes, which, if there is any tension
questions that only we would know to ask. didn’t use shades of gray. In fact, we called in what we do ...
We freely edited this for the sake of clarity the first book “Black & White World”
and readability, even adding content where partly because we kind of prided ourselves John: [Laughs]
necessary. But we also tried to retain some of on that stark, black-and-white look.
the conversational tone. Allen: ... that’s probably why.
John: [Laughs] Exactly.
Allen: Let’s start off with a question I have John: Yeah.
for you. I know you like to paint, as well Allen: Now that you’re using the comput-
as do other forms of illustration. Can you er more, you add computer shading effects Allen: You have a phrase you use when I
describe what it is you like about cartoon- that allow for more subtlety. I wanted to send you an idea that you’re eager to draw.
ing in particular? ask you, how much do your painting skills You say the cartoon “hits right in your
inform your cartoon work now? wheelhouse.”
John: Oh yeah, big time!
John: I would say 100%. I don’t think I John: Exactly. Exactly.
Allen: In five words or less? would have the comfort level in using
Photoshop for different tonal values with- Allen: Can you elaborate on when an idea
John: [Laughs] Yeah, I discovered first- out the years of doing the fine art work. is in your wheelhouse? Or when it isn’t?
hand that fine art painting is much more Now granted, if I were a different kind of
personal. It’s not collaborative at all. In painter—let’s say I did squares and trian- John: I think the ones I like best have
fact, that’s my biggest distinction between gles, and I was really interested in flat stuff that I can make up. You know, if
commercial work and fine art. Fine art shapes—then I would probably bring there’s a three-eyed alien that no one’s
work is always just the artist himself, and something different to my cartoon work. I seen before, I can make that up. If it’s a
commercial work is almost always collabo- think my cartoon work is a direct reflec- spaceship, if it’s a creature coming out of
rative. So the fact that we’re collaborating tion of my dedication to realism and an ocean ... those are things that are just
on cartoons makes it very different. What depicting volume and shadow. All my pure fantasy. I love those. I’m not having
I like the most about fine art is that it’s all interest in that has bled into the cartoon to look at reference. When I’m having to
me, and I can sit there and take all the work. So yeah, I think that that makes a draw the Statue of Liberty or the US
advantages and disadvantages of huge difference. Capitol building or even my Newsmaker
it being my own work. When it gets Caricatures [page 187], I’m having to be
bought, and occasionally it does, I get I know one of the things that I have kind of slavish to my reference, because
great satisfaction knowing that my ideas always been interested in, and I still love that’s part of the context of the cartoon. If
are out of my head and actually hanging talking about, is how much of me you you draw the US Capitol wrong, that
on someone’s wall. have to take into account in forming your ruins the joke. So I think what I try to do
ideas. We’ve had these conversations many with the realistic stuff is make sure my ref-
The biggest advantage of the cartoon work times, where I kind of complain, “Would erence is good, and I try to stay true to it.
is that the audience is involved immediate- you please come up with ideas that I’m My “wheelhouse” is when I get to make
ly. I never get that from the fine art. Even good at drawing.” As opposed to just the stuff up.
when I would fantasize the most outra- ideas that you’re interested in. So I’d like
geous scenarios of being a popular painter, to hear about that occasional conflict Allen: Very few of our cartoons probably
I just wouldn’t have an audience like this. between the ideas you’re really interested hit right in your wheelhouse.
We’re reaching about 8,000 people a day, in and the stuff that I’m willing to draw.
and I would never, ever get that in a John: Exactly. I’ve always given you full
gallery. Allen: Right! Well, yeah, that conflict is credit for expanding my palette, as it were.
definitely there. Sometimes you’re not in I’m not talking about colors but my palette
Allen: When we first started doing the the mood to draw technically challenging of things to get across. My sketchbook
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[page 221] is full of stuff that I make up,

and that’s my vacation from the realism
that we try to put into our cartoons. I’m
just goofing around. But I tell you what,
my cartooning and even my drafting has
gotten so much better because of your
approach to the cartoons. Buildings, cars,
furniture ... it’s almost like those are your
building blocks.
Allen: Yeah, a lot of those elements are

just necessary, whether it’s a suburban
living room or an old ship. If the setting is
a living room, you’re going to need some
pretty mundane items in the cartoon to
get that across, even though it’s not some-
thing people pay a lot of attention to.
They’re needed to set up the cartoon.
John: Yeah, exactly. Context is crucial.

A cartoon midway through John’s inking. See finished cartoon on page 102.
Allen: So, I guess we could say there aren’t
a lot of buildings and cars in your sketch- Allen: The point of a cartoon, an editorial Allen: Another one of our big differences
book. cartoon, is to make an editorial point. is probably my tendency to tackle serious
Sometimes it’s funny and sometimes it’s topics, which lend themselves less to
John: Nooooo! [Laughs] Nooooo. You’ll not. For some reason American culture humor.
see a lot of, as I’ve said before, a lot of has become inclined to think that all car-
gorillas in tutus. toons are supposed to be funny, but I John: Exactly. But I’d be willing to bet
don’t think it was always that way. What’s that’s why as a duo, a cartoon duo, we’re
Allen: [Laughs] changed, I don’t know but— probably unique. We each bring some-
thing different to the table.
John: But, you know, I kind of use my John: I’d be willing to bet that people are
sketchbook a fuel source for the editorial more readily available for a joke than they Allen: Speaking of being a duo, I can’t
cartoons. What I’m not able to play with are for something serious. Hey look, I help but think of one of the funniest criti-
in our more serious cartoons, I immediate- want to see a joke in the editorial pages, cisms we’ve heard. Somebody who didn’t
ly go to the sketchbook and kind of do a you know? like our cartoons was amazed it took two
little workout. In fact, I’d be willing to bet people to come up with them.
I’m busiest in my sketchbook after one of Allen: Right.
our darker cartoons, when we’re trying to John: [Laughs] But our differences aren’t
portray a certain amount of tragedy or John: That’s why I love Michael a real problem because we share a
some sort of travesty against people. Those Ramirez’s work so much. He treads that common aesthetic. We admire the same
drawings can get very dark. We’ve done line that I covet, that there is a way to kind of cartoons. We both like graphic
our share of dead bodies. And we get draw funny when you have to, and draw novels, we both like mainly the same car-
accused of not being funny, but that’s really serious when you have to. Boy, I toonists, we both have an appreciation for
never really been our main focus. don’t know what my cartooning would be older work from the ’30s and ’40s, like the
like without having guys like Ramirez and Dr. Seuss war cartoons. But if I only liked
Allen: Yes, I’d have to say that particular Peters and even Ben Sergeant to look at. the real simplistic, almost Gary Larson
complaint, that we’re not funny, is one of approach to drawing, you and I couldn’t
the strangest. Allen: So, if you were doing cartoons on do the work. We couldn’t do it because of
your own, they would tend to go for the what you require, or at least what your
John: [Laughs] Maybe we should we do a laugh, right? ideas require.
cartoon about that.
John: Yes, they would. Allen: You’re right.
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detailed work, so the fact that we have this recent cartoon of Bill Clinton rewriting approach, but it can also can be helpful,
aesthetic in common probably makes a The Clinton Legacy book [page 150]. Now because sometimes approaching a topic
huge difference. I’ve done a few goofy caricatures of him, from a different perspective than you’re
but that would not have worked in that used to can lead to new ideas. That pro-
Allen: Let me ask you something. I can cartoon. It needed a certain sinister cess lends itself really well to improving a
look at one of your cartoons of Bush from quality. cartoon once we’ve started. But when
2001 and look at a recent one, and they starting from scratch ...
are not radically different, which surprises Allen: So the differences in the caricatures
me. I expected to see a huge difference, reflect differences in the intents of the car- John: Do you have an example of that?
and that’s because I know you’ve drawn toons.
him differently over the last five years. Allen: Let me think. ... Well, one example
Why have you done that? John: Exactly. ... You know, I’d like to can be seen in your sketchbook. At one
return to something we touched on earlier. point in time you mentioned to me that
John: Done what? Change his look? you were sketching a very large, rotund,
Allen: Sure. menacing Mother Nature [page 229]. You
Allen: Yeah. just threw that out as something you’d like
John: I’d like to hear how you think our to draw, and of course I had nothing for
John: I think one of the things that you approaches are different. that.
bring to it with your approach, or at least
your opinion of Bush, is that there’s a Allen: Well, referring back to what you John: [Laughs] I think it was during the
goofy aspect to him and there’s a serious said about your sketchbook, that really hurricane days, right?
aspect. Sometimes he’s clownish. embodies our different approaches to
Sometimes he’s heroic. I think those dif- coming up with editorial cartoons. I find Allen: Yes, and you were probably vibing
ferent characteristics have to have different it funny sometimes that when we’re work- off that news. But I was unable to apply
kinds of Bushes. I take a certain pride in ing on a new idea from scratch, you’ll that concept to anything I was working on
the fact that when I draw George Bush, I often have funny visuals or funny situa- at that moment, politics-wise. However,
have a three or four different ones. tions, but they have absolutely nothing to because you’d thrown it out there, we
do ... ended up using it in a Buster McNutt gag
One of the things that I discovered, and cartoon, the one about “mixed hail” [page
didn’t really think of it as I was doing it, John: [Laughs] 202].
was the idea that there are different ways
to do these caricatures, where you convey Allen: ... with politics or with the culture John: Oh, I remember that one.
different facets of the person, which is all or anything specific. It’s just a funny thing.
beyond just capturing a likeness. I think Allen: Which turned out really well. And
you can say the same thing about my John: That’s me. later we used the concept again for a
Ahmadinejad drawings. I’ve drawn him Hurricane Wilma cartoon [page 81]. So
goofy, and I’ve drawn him scary. I’ve done Allen: A beached whale and a guy talking. that shows how coming up with random-
that with Bin Laden, too. A leaping lion. Frankly, I find that but-interesting visuals can be helpful.
approach frustrating.
Allen: Right. John: But that’s exactly what you don’t
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those terms. I start with the news, what I prospect of putting on the hip waders and
don’t like about it, and what I want to say. John: It must be frustrating for you. Is getting back in is not pleasant. If there’s
I have to figure out the best way to make that the hardest part of your end of it? anything that threatens my ability to keep
that point, whether it’s an analogy, or a doing this, it’s that—having to stay in the
situation, or an absurdity, or— Allen: The collaboration? No. I mean, day-to-day muck of politics.
without our division of labor, we simply
John: Which is something I never do. couldn’t produce these cartoons, and I’m John: I know what you mean.
proud of what we’ve done as a team.
Allen: Right. Allen: If I ever stop editorial cartooning,
John: Then what is the hardest part? that will probably be why.
John: I never do that. From the art point
of view, I always think of what would be Allen: Well, you’ve heard me complain John: You know, we’ve tried really hard to
fun to draw, then I try to find a story that over the years, so this is nothing new for mix in the lighter stuff, because I think
fits it! [Laughs] you. But one thing that makes my end dif- that’s part of the just being healthy.
ficult is the repetitiveness of the news.
Allen: [Laughs] Look at our Iran cartoons, which span five Allen: It is.
years, and they pretty much cover the
John: Try that for a day and see where same issues over and over and over again. John: And if you really wanted to do
that will get you. “Let’s see, I have a tutu, Iran’s open desire to destroy America. Our heavy stuff every day, you could. There’s
a whale, and a cheeseburger. Now if I can government’s seeming lack of concern. heavy stuff in the news every single day.
find a story with those three elements, I’m The non-stop dithering with the UN. All But I think you have to maintain a bal-
golden!” My sketchbooks are full of that of that is not only frustrating from an idea ance of the light, the heavy, the whimsical,
sort of thing. standpoint but also from a human-being and the not so heavy. I think the variety
standpoint. has a lot to do with longevity.
Allen: Yeah, that’s not good for editorial
cartoons. You can’t think, “Okay, how is John: Oh, yeah. Exactly. Just being a con- Allen: We also get some relief from our
George Bush like a cheeseburger?” cerned citizen and having to read about it Buster McNutt gag cartoons [page 195]
every single day is frustrating. once a month.
John: Exactly. Exactly. And I’d be willing
to bet that’s a trap a lot of cartoonist fall Allen: Right. Much less having to come John: Right.
into, looking for news to fit their ideas. up with something new to say about it.
That’s a hard way to go. And reviewing our cartoons, as I did for Allen: That’s always fun, though it proba-
this book, you see how the same topics bly doesn’t sound like it from this conver-
Allen: I suspect that situation is unique to keep coming up time and again. That is sation. [Laughs]
us, because we’re doing this as a partner- frustrating.
ship. A single person would be working John: [Laughs] Yes, they are fun. Hey,
out those conflicts in his own head and The other thing I find difficult as a writer let’s do more of those!
then drawing whatever he wants to draw. is having to stay immersed in the daily
You and I, on the other hand, have to news. I’ve often described it as having to Allen: If you look at those cartoons, you
work together as a team, and our different work in a sewer. And when you get out of can tell that we are not having to worry
approaches come to the surface when it, and you go away from it, say, on a about whether or not Kim Jong Il is going
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to drop a nuke on somebody. It’s a nice truth. The great thing about Photoshop is Allen: Even though in the final, I wished
break. that, even after I ink the hell out of some- the wave had been a little more ominous.
thing, there is always a chance to tweak it.
John: Let’s discuss a little more about how The fact that you still have that artistic John: Didn’t we steal that wave from
we work together. Do prefer doing pencil sense, despite your crude approach to your another piece that we did?
sketches of your ideas or describing them pencil sketches, gives you the ability to
verbally to me? You’re really good at both. figure out how it will look at the end. I’ve Allen: Yeah, the al-Zarqawi cartoon, “Cast
always appreciated that. Way” [page 80].
Allen: I prefer pencils, even though I
know that poses challenges to you. Allen: And that works both ways. It’s John: He was confronting a giant wave of
never been as clear cut as “I write; you ballots.
John: Big time. [Laughs] draw.” We have a synergistic partnership.
I will often key off what you’ve done. You Allen: I liked the relative size of the wave
Allen: I try to solve as many of the visual always send me pencil sketches that take on that cartoon better than the Iran one.
problems as I can in the pencil sketch, to the idea to a higher level. Always. And that
hand you as complete an idea as I can. will often inspire more ideas that can be John: But scale was problematic on the
added into the cartoon to improve it. And Iran one because we had more objects—a
John: But sometimes you’re really, really sometimes you improve the idea itself. boat and two characters. Bush had to be
wrong. [Laughs] I’ll have to to fix some- recognizable.
thing that you didn’t even bother trying to John: I’ll tell you a good example of
solve. that—the recent Iran cartoon with Bush Allen: Right. It came out great, though. I
and the donkey in the boat [page 151]. loved how you handled the water. The
Allen: But that’s your job! Homer painting inspired all that.
Allen: Yep.
John: Some of your ideas aren’t even John: I think that’s a part of it, too, the
drawable! John: Now your pencil rough on that one idea that our ideas or inspirations can
was basically a simple drawing of a little come from our fine art background.
Allen: True. But sometimes I just hit the boat, Bush, and a donkey—and the dia-
limit of your drawing abilities or interests. logue, of course. And you had this pipe Allen: Absolutely.
thing dumping all kinds of water onto the
John: That’s true, too. boat. Now I could probably draw the heck John: I can think of three or four cartoons
out of a pipe in the water, but the cartoon off the top of my head that had a lot to do
Allen: I’m relying on your abilities to lacked something. with mimicking famous paintings.
draw certain things or to grasp a concept.
Sometimes you get it and can draw it. Artistically, my favorite cartoons have Allen: Like the cover, which is based on a
Other times you don’t get it and can’t or three or four planes of depth. At least a Howard Pyle illustration. We do that
don’t want to draw it. And sometimes I foreground, a mid-ground, and a back- because they did such a great job of pre-
just come up with stinker ideas. But we’ve ground. I’m always trying to bring that senting a situation, and hopefully we’re
gotten pretty good at working through depth to our cartoons. So in working on using it in a different but respectful
those problems. this cartoon, I thought of a Winslow manner. That’s certainly our intention.
Homer painting called “The Gulf
John: I get asked quite a bit about how Stream.” I wanted you to look at. So you John: Well, I think like anything, those
much of the drawing do you do and how Googled it and what happened? works of art are in the world, and we use
much of the writing do I do. What people everything as inspiration for ideas. So as
don’t know is how much drawing you Allen: Well, right away I liked the broken long as this great art is out there, I think it
actually do to help me along. In fact, I’d boat and ocean setting. They added some would be silly to ignore it. You know the
say a good chunk of the cartoons, how drama. But the big breakthrough was idea that you can respond to a Howard
they actually end up looking, has lots do using a wave instead of a pipe. And we Pyle illustration, you can respond to a
with the little details of things that I didn’t likely wouldn’t have reached that idea Michelangelo sculpture, you can respond
think of, and I’m always open to that. The without looking at the painting and look- to a Rockwell illustration, and you can use
idea that I have it all figured out, and I ink ing at the idea from other angles. them. I think it makes cartooning that
it all and that’s the way it’s going to be— much more entertaining. •
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INDEX
9/11 (see September 11, 2001) bird flu 77, 88 conspiracy theorists 146, 148 Fish, Stanley 160
98th Maintenance Company 208 black gangs 79 creationism 75 Fiskie Awards 211
Blair, Tony 5, 44, 57, 65, 92, Crescent of Embrace 178 Fitzgerald, Patrick 83
AARP (American Association of 130 Crittenden, Jules 141 flag burning 56
Retired Persons) 20 Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux 71, Cuba 118, 137 Flight 93 146, 178
Abbas, Mahmoud 17, 19, 44, 183 Florida Jewish News vii
154 Blix, Hans 111 Daily Telegraph 48 flying monkeys 31
Abdullah II 188 bloggers 28, 37, 212 Darth Vader 2, 47 Foley, Mark 152
Abu Ghraib 123, 178 Blogalicious 209 Dateline NBC 112 France 5, 29, 43, 44, 51, 65, 84,
ACLU (American Civil Liberties BlogNashville 194 Day by Day 206–207 85, 92, 113, 121
Union) 66, 141, 142, 176 Bolton, John 40, 47, 91, 189 Dean, Howard 25, 190 Franklin, Ben 130
Adams, Scott 207 Bono 93 DeLay, Tom 39, 75, 97 free speech vii, 158, 159,
Afghanistan 45, 109 Borders Books 166 Democratic National 161–165
AFL-CIO 62 Boxer, Barbara 21 Committee 25 free trade (see capitalism)
Africa 54, 57, 75 Bradley, Hugh 171 Democrats 2, 13, 18, 24, 25, 43, Frier, Avi vii
The Ahmadinejad Code vii, 168 Brook, Yaron 133, 155 47, 49, 58, 59, 62, 71, 73, 83, Fuseli, Henry (“The
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 56, Brown, Mike 73 85, 86, 87, 95, 109, 110, 146, Nightmare”) 31
74, 82, 88, 92, 99, 102, 110, Brzezinski, Piotr C. 116 147, 151, 152, 156, 182, 207,
111, 114, 117, 118, 121, 123, Bundgaard, Peder 164 212 G8 54, 57
129, 133, 138, 142, 146, 147, Burlingame, Debra 174 Denmark 158 Gaddafi, Muammar 190
149, 152, 155, 168–171, 184, burqa 63, 108, 144, 161 Department of Homeland Galloway, George 210
188 Bush, George W. 3, 4, 10, 13, Security 46, 104 Ganji, Akbar 60
Air America 64 20, 21, 24, 29, 35, 40, 43, 50, Dilbert 207 Gaza Strip 65, 67, 69, 86
Al Qaeda vi, 45, 93, 98, 117, 62, 65, 75, 83, 84, 86, 87, 92, Disney 164 Geneva Conventions 134
136 103, 109, 118, 128, 129, 133, Dolat, Ardeshir 173 George, Charles Philip Arthur
al-Sadr, Muqtada vi, 147, 152, 138, 146, 147, 151, 155, 183, donkey (see Democrats) 191
188 218, 219, 228 dove 26, 65 Germany 5, 44, 65, 121
Al-Sudayyis, Abd Al-Rahman 61 drug enforcement 52 Ghate, Onkar 115, 168, 214
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab 22, 45, CAIR (Council on American- Durbin, Dick 54 Gitmo (see Guantanamo Bay)
51, 78, 80, 125 Islamic Relations) 107, 146 Dutch (see Netherlands) Glick, Caroline 119
al-Zawahiri, Ayman 136 Canada 31, 53, 89, 100, 124 global warming 16, 90, 93, 126
Alito, Samuel 83, 98 Canseco, Jose 27 Earth Day 42, 115 Google 101
American Compass 194 capitalism 54, 84 Easter Bunny 94 GOP (see Republicans)
American Jewish Press Carter, Jimmy 29, 101, 104 economies of scale 94 Gore, Al 2, 109, 116, 126
Association vii cartoon jihad vii, 158 Egeland, Jan 135 gorilla in tutu 212, 217
Anna, Kofi 4, 8, 16, 39, 155 Castro, Fidel 118, 137, 189 Eiffel Tower 84 government dependency 144
anti-immigration 120, 132 caveman 19 ElBaradei, Mohammed 11, 78, government spending 75, 111,
antiwar protester 36, 60, 66, 76, Chavez, Hugo 84, 89, 118, 149, 97 130
78, 81, 108, 113, 127, 135, 187 elephant (see Republicans) Greenspan, Alan 5, 183
170 Chertoff, Michael 189 eminent domain 55, 91, 130 Grim Reaper 28
ANWR (Arctic National China 35, 41, 43, 87, 91, 99, England 5, 44, 57, 65, 77, 92, Ground Zero vi, vii, 174–179
Wildlife Refuge) 36, 85 101 121, 130 Guantanamo Bay vi, 8, 47, 54
April Fools’ Day 212 church and state 131, 144 environmentalism 9, 16, 42, 68,
Arafat, Yasser 10, 44, 171 Churchill, Ward 35 85, 90, 115, 116, 126 Haditha 123
Arc de Triomphe 85 CBS (see Dan Rather) Epstein, Alex 50, 55, 115 Hajj, Adnan 138
Armstrong, Eugene 125 Cheney, Dick 103, 147 EU (European Union) 44, 51, Halloween 82, 94, 156
Assad, Bashar 28, 30, 53, 147 Chicago Sun-Times 26 65, 76, 100, 155 Hamas 26, 44, 65, 67, 69, 101,
assimilation 112, 116 Chirac, Jacques 5, 29, 43, 44, 104, 114, 119, 127, 129, 131,
AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report 51, 65, 85, 92, 113, 133, 139, Falconer, Ian 164 143, 150, 154
vii, 185–186, 196–204 141, 155, 190 Fallaci, Oriana 210 Hamilton, Alexander 193
avian flu (see bird flu) Christmas 13, 94, 196 Fallujah 2, 7 Hamodia vii
Ayn Rand Institute 50, 55, 75, Clampett, Bob 164 Fatah 19, 150, 154 Hamshahri 168
94, 115, 133, 155, 168, 214 Clark, Ramsey 94, 210 FBI 122 Harper, Stephen 100
Clinton, Bill 150, 190 FDNY (New York City Fire Harris, Katherine 144
Bennish, Jay 106 Clinton, Hillary 99 Department) 72 Harvard University 145
Berg, Nick Jr. 125 CNN 25, 161, 163 FEC (Federal Election Hastert, Dennis 122
Bernstein, Andrew 54 compassionate conservatism 75 Commission) 37 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 193
Bernstein, Tom 176 Congress 37, 46 FEMA (Federal Emergency Hayden, Michael 191
Bin Laden, Osama 147, 152 conservatives 162 Management Agency) 71, 73 Hensley, Jack 125
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Henson, Jim 164 Jefferson, Thomas 130 Marines 123, 125, 135 Olivia 164
Hewitt, Hugh 123, 162 Jefferson, William 122 Marshall, Paul 48 Olmert, Ehud 140
Hezbollah 34, 132–135, Jesus 165 Martin, Paul 31, 89 OPEC (Organization of the
137–141, 143, 147 jihad 124, 128, 136 mass graves in Iraq 94 Petroleum Exporting
Hinchey, Maurice 31 Jihad Watch (see Robert McCain-Feingold 37 Countries) 36
Hitchens, Christopher 76 Spencer) McGwire, Mark 27 Operation Murambatsvina 63
Hitler, Adolf 60, 169–172, 175 Johnson, Charles vii, 18, 31, McKinney, Cynthia 192 Oscars 32, 105
Highway bill 75 138, 211 Mecca 61
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan 120 Jordan, Eason 25 media (NEC) 3, 28, 64, 74, 93, Pakistan 98, 105
Holcberg, David 50 Jyllands-Posten 164, 168 127 Palestinian Authority 10, 15, 17,
Holocaust vii, 92, 102, 168, 169, Medicare 75 19, 24, 26, 44, 58, 86, 127
175 Karimov, Islam 48 memogate (see Dan Rather) Palestinian terrorists (NEC) 91,
homosexuality 108 Karzai, Hamid 109 Memorial Day 50, 122 124, 129
Hot Air 210 Katrina 70, 71, 75 MEMRI 61 Paris 84, 85
Høyer, Rasmus Sand 164 Kelo v. New London 55, 91 Michelangelo (“Creation of Pelosi, Nancy 122
Hu Jintao 43, 99, 153 Kennedy, Edward 98 Adam”) 75 Penn, Sean 53
Hussein, Saddam 12, 24, 53, 80, Kerry, John 6, 21, 146 Miniter, Brendan 75 Photoshop 138, 216
86, 94, 160, 191 Khamenei, Ali 5, 28, 44, 46, 53, Miss Piggy 164 Piglet 77, 164, 166
55, 65, 123, 147 Mohammed 158, 163, 164, 165 Pipes, Daniel 107, 149, 170
IAEA (International Atomic Khatami, Muhammad 9, 145 moonbat 60, 68, 146 Plame, Valerie 59
Energy Agency) 11, 78, 97, Khomeini, Ayatollah 158, 168 Moore, Michael 13, 95, 211 Plamegame 59
100, 102 Kim Jong Il 46, 53, 130, 152, Morales, Evo 192 plantation 99
IFC (International Freedom 153 Moses 165 PLO (Palestine Liberation
Center) vi, vii, 174–179 Kim Sun-Il 125 Mother Nature 202, 218, 229 Organization) 24, 40
immigration 110, 112, 116, 120, King Kong 92 Moussaoui, Zacarias 117 Pluto 143
132 King, Martin Luther Jr. 175 MoveOn.org 60 Podhoretz, John 162
Independence Day 57, 130 Kissinger, Henry 184 Mugabe, Robert 38, 49, 63 Pol Pot 54
India 105 Koizumi, Junichiro 130, 192 Muir, Chris 194, 206–207 Pope Benedict XVI 133, 188
The Intellectual Activist (also see Krauthammer, Charles 17, 105, mullahs 90 Pope John Paul II 32, 41, 182
Robert Tracinski) 182–184 110, 137 multiculturalism 61, 85, 128 Popular Mechanics 148
intelligent design theory 75 Kurd 67 Murtha, John 127 pork barrel spending 75, 111
International Red Cross 8 Kyoto Treaty 16 Muslim 142, 148, 161 Porky Pig 164
Internet 76 poverty 20, 54, 57, 75
interrogation 54 labor unions 62 Nagin, Ray 71, 144, 183 Powell, Colin 3
Investor’s Business Daily vii, 33, LaBov & Beyond 213 NASCAR 112 price gouging 115
64, 81 Ladeen, Michael 55 Nasrallah, Hassan 135, 139, profiling 142
Iran 5, 9, 24, 28, 44, 46, 53, 55, Lady Justice 39 140, 147 Project Valour-IT 208
56, 65, 74, 78, 79, 82, 88, 90, Lady Liberty (see Statue of National Post vii Putin, Vladimir 30, 96, 99, 133,
92, 93, 99, 100, 106–108, Liberty) National Review 48 192
110, 111, 113, 114, 117, 118, The Lancet 153 Nazis 54, 79, 85, 106, 135, 169, Pyle, Howard (“Walking The
121, 123, 126, 129, 133, 138, Lebanon 30, 34, 134, 135, 137, 170, 175 Plank”) 163
142, 146, 147, 149, 151, 152, 138, 140 NBC 112
155, 184 Lee, Robert E. 193 Neo vii Qana 137, 138
Iran Press News 173 Libby, Lewis “Scooter” 83 neo-Nazis 79 Qatar 52
Iraq 2, 7, 15, 22, 23, 36, 51, 53, Libertad Digital vii Netanya Mall 58
63, 64, 67, 69, 74, 79–81, 86, Lieberman, Joe 192 Netanyahu, Benjamin 65 racism 79, 112
87, 94, 95, 106, 151, 153, Limbaugh, Rush 64 Netherlands 51, 120 Rahmatullah, Sayed Hashemi
164 Little Green Footballs (see New Orleans 70, 71, 144 106
Islamic Jihad 114 Charles Johnson) New York City 92, 174–179 Rand, Ayn 214
Islamism 84, 120, 147, 159, 163, Locke, Edwin A. 94 The New York Times 93, 128, Rasmussen, Anders Fogh 160
179 Lockitch, Keith 75 160, 177 Rather, Dan 6, 18
Israel 19, 26, 40, 58, 65, 67, 69, London bombings 57 Newsweek 47, 48 recycling 116, 126
86, 88, 91, 92, 97, 114, 119, London terror plot 139 NHL (National Hockey League) Rehnquist, William H. 71
124, 129, 132–134, 136, 139, Lott, Trent 111 59 Republicans 20, 37, 38, 71, 73,
140, 150, 169, 170 Nobel Peace Prize 78, 88 75, 83, 85, 110, 156, 182,
Italian Red Cross 69 mad cow disease 107 North Korea 46, 53, 130, 152 207, 212
Malkin, Michelle vii, 112, 161, NSA (National Security Agency) Reynolds, Glenn 47, 194
Jackson, Michael 191 210 119, 141 Rice, Condoleezza 4, 21, 23, 63,
Japan 41, 130 marijuana 52 86, 117, 118, 139, 154, 160
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roadmap to peace 40 Taiwan 35, 42 Yahoo 103

Roberts, John 62, 71, 73 Tal Afar 74
Robertson, Pat 97 Taliban 24, 45, 106, 125 Wal-Mart 94
Rock, Chris 32 Tancredo, Tom 210 The Wall Street Journal 37, 53, 71, 75, 132,
Rockower Award vii Tarzan 222 134, 141, 174
Rockwell, Norman (“Freedom From Want”) Teamsters 62 Washington, George 57, 130, 193
88 Thanksgiving 88 The Washington Post 121
Rove, Karl 31, 59, 83 TIA Daily (see Robert Tracinski) The Washington Times vii, 25
Reuters 138 Todd A. 194 Weblog Awards 206
Rumsfeld, Donald 12, 147 Townhall.com vii West 142, 162
Rushdie, Salman 158 torture vi, 54 West Bank 69
Russia 30, 96, 99 Tracinski, Robert vii, 4, 51, 80, 85, 112, 117, West, Diana 127
120, 126, 131, 133, 144, 152, 158, 170 Westergaard, Kurt 164, 166
Sager, Ryan 37 Trego, William (“Washington Reviewing His whistleblowers 96
Salzman, Larry 55 Ragged Army at Valley Forge”) 57 white supremacists 79
Santa Claus 13, 94, 196 Truthers 148 Widener, Jeff 41
Satan 165, 170 tsunami 14, 16 Williams, Bob 71
Saudi Arabia 27, 61, 121 Wilma 81
Schaeffer, Frank 125 Ukraine 7, 10, 14, 96 Winnie the Pooh 77
Schiavo,Terri 37, 38, 39 Uncle Sam vi, 26, 31, 46, 56, 68, 113, 114, wiretapping 93, 119, 141
Schröder, Gerhard 5, 44, 65 129, 156, 207, 209 wooly mammoth 19
Schumer, Charles 96, 101 United Arab Emirates 52, 104 World Overcomers Outreach Ministries
secularism 22, 145 United Nations 4, 8, 16, 20, 34, 39, 40, 74, Church 131
Security Council, UN 91, 99, 100, 130, 149 76, 78, 91, 97, 100, 102, 107, 110, 117, World Trade Center vii, 147, 151, 174–179
Seckel, Al 172 130, 149, 154, 155, 156
Seidel, Claus 164 US Constitution 56 Yanukovych, Viktor 7, 14
September 11, 2001 72, 142, 146, 147, 148, Uthman, Husayn 36 Yushchenko, Viktor 7, 10, 14
150, 151, 174–179 Uzbekistan 48
Senate 58, 62, 73 Zand-Bonazzi, Banafsheh 114
Sgrena, Giuliana 33 Vatican 32 Zapatero, Jose Luis Rodriguez 133
sharia 63, 67, 156 Venezuela 84, 89, 118, 149 Zarqawi (see al-Zarqawi)
Sharon, Ariel 40 Vincent, Steven 64 Zimbabwe 38, 49, 63
Sheehan, Cindy 66, 81, 94, 127, 170, 211 VW 213
Shi’ite 67, 79, 143, 164
Sierra Club 9, 68
Singh, Manmohan 105
Social Security 11, 20, 43
socialism 75, 84
socialized medicine 53
Soviet gulags vi, 54, 175
Spencer, Robert 48, 210
Spielberg, Steven 184
Spock 2
Statue of Liberty vi, 87, 120, 131, 228
stem cell research 50
Stewart, John 105
Steyn, Mark vi, vii, 54, 55, 61, 77, 87, 90,
119
Stone, Oliver 151
Sudan 4
Sultan, Wafa 108
The Sun 94
Sunni 67, 143, 164
Supreme Court 33, 49, 52, 55, 62
Switzerland 196
Syria 24, 28, 30, 34, 53, 147, 160
Taheri-azar, Mohammed Reza 106

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Democrat theories as to why

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Watch Your Six

When it was reported that a

We had high hopes for

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Fallujah Ice Cream

From a Union Leader report

We should have been more

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One of the most disappointing

During his campaign,

This cartoon turned out to be

The cartoon is based on a

Bush was voted TIME’s

Clause for Alarm

We created this cartoon to

Little did we know that the

From a New York Times report

Some prominent environmen-

Embalm the Vote

It’s not everyday that John gets

To this day, Dan Rather insists

Palestinian Authority President

Bush’s meager attempt to par-

Aid and Abet

From The New York Times:

From The Los Angeles Times

The original cartoon had

St. George and

Almost three and a half years

From a Washington Times

From a Chicago Sun-Times

Some actual mortars did go

From Sports Illustrated:

From FOX News:

From FOX News:

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-

From the Seattle

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Pain and Suffering

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Colorado University Professor

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