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So, it was a war for oil after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement...
As part of Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn’t a trade war, the president has signed an executive order,...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026
Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and loyal Republican who supported Donald Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns. But...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026
Over the last year or so, President Donald Trump has sometimes pointed to Vice President JD Vance as his preference for the 2028 Republican...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026
From now on, far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos will have to promote his fringe conspiracies and racial controversies in Great Britain after...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026
Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of...
September has arrived, which means autumn is here. It couldn’t come soon enough. Politics all day long You see, a 2026 Change Research survey finds...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026
Republican President George W. Bush’s stupid war in Iraq (launched on false premises and bogus promises) triggered a blue tsunami in the 2006...
Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026
As President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney responded with a direct and damning comment: “We’ve...
There has been a lot of commentary on the differences between Resistance 1.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down President Donald Trump...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 28, 2026
If you’re like me, the larger-than-life Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story. My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years....
Cartoonist’s Take: August 27, 2026
I’m not qualified to write original lyrics for Natalie Harp: The Musical, so I’ll just crib from Karen Carpenter’s crooning. Feel free to sing...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 26, 2026
Younger generations are driving an old-fashioned comeback: handwritten letters. According to Business Insider, Gen Z and millennials, tired of the...
By Michael J. Belsky, Esq. The start of a new school year brings excitement and opportunity for children, but for divorced or separated parents, it...
Remember “affordability” mania? The time was 2025. A young, charismatic democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor named Zohran...
“Electric” — not a word you’d normally associate with state government affairs. But such was the atmosphere for a gubernatorial bill signing...
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I have decided to follow Diogenes and live in a barrel. Psych. I have enough trouble lying down on wooden floors. I need at least a sleeping bag....
Cartoonist’s Take: August 22, 2026
One interesting thing about listening to President Donald Trump’s speeches, as opposed to just reading about them later, is that the listener not...
The 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran has expired. The war drags on through its sixth month with no peace talks scheduled and no end...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 21, 2026
By Greg T. Rinckey, Esq. In today’s digital world, social media activity can create a permanent record for users with consequences that extend...
Editor’s note: Humor columnist Alexandra Paskhaver is also a big history buff, and is diving into the rich life of Benjamin Franklin for a series of...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 20, 2026
“With two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard – and THEN they started taxing the cats!” – apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young....
Just one year shy of its 20th anniversary, the iPhone, and the other electronic devices we use daily, sure have changed modern life — and not all...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 19, 2026
People used to tell me that I wrote too many columns about abortion. The staunchly “pro-choice-but-who-are-we-kidding-pro-abortion” readers were...
The Republican war against Anthony Fauci came to a head earlier this month when GOP senators slapped the former director of the National Institute of...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 18, 2026
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I often get asked for my advice on how to vote. I’m the first to concede these requests come from a very niche slice of the electorate — that tiny...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 16, 2026
When left-wing insurgent Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat in Michigan, Donald Trump cheered that it was “great...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 15, 2026
This political season, like the last couple, has featured Democratic candidates not only running for office but running away from things they said...
I have studied the art of conversation and come to a conclusion. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 14, 2026