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Author: Ann
An unethical relationship in Washington
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is tonight; watch the ridiculous event live on C-span.
(Click image for full cartoon at the Washington Post)
Garry Trudeau’s dangerous logic about Charlie Hebdo
(click on image for full column)
Hillary to announce her 2016 presidential run
The Guardian reports:
“The former secretary of state is scheduled to declare her second run for president on Twitter at noon eastern time on Sunday, the source told the Guardian, followed by a video and email announcement, then a series of conference calls mapping out a blitzkrieg tour beginning in Iowa and looking ahead to more early primary states.”
Looking back at the GW Bush presidency
I just returned from participating on a cartoonists panel looking back at the George W Bush presidency at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. Our moderator was Roslyn Mazer, a great supporter of cartoonists’ free speech rights who represented the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in an amicus brief for the famous Hustler v Falwell case in 1987. The other cartoonists on the panel were Mike Peters from the Dayton Daily News, Steve Breen from the San Diego Times Union-Tribune, and Mike Luckovich from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s always fun to get together with my colleagues and this particular group had me laughing most of the time. Especially Mike Peters. The evening before our panel Roslyn herded us to a local Italian restaurant (think The Sopranos) and watching Mike interact with our waiter was priceless.
The next day while we waited in the hospitality room before our panel I mentioned to Mike that the former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden was sitting over at the next table. Without missing a beat Mike rushed over to his table, introduced himself, and proceeded to ask the creator of the NSA warrantless surveillance program to “just forget” hearing that obscene phone call he had with his wife.
A sketch from another panel at the Hofstra presidential conference, “The Constitution, Executive Power and National Security Post-9/11. If you put everything Michael Hayden said during the discussion into one sentence it would be: The Obama administration is doing the same bad stuff we did. 
Hillary is digging herself out of 2016 race
An animated gif from my Washington Post blog (click image for link):
Another Bush presidency?
Former governor Jeb Bush gave a foreign policy speech yesterday in Chicago where he tried to distance himself from his brother George’s administration. In case you’ve forgotten what a disaster the last Bush presidency was, take a look at this.
Brian Williams is not the problem
The salivating Washington media is. Don’t get me wrong; I couldn’t care less about Brian Williams. If ever there was an example of a stereotypical blow-dried network news anchor, it’s him. But all the chatter by the Washington talking heads about this issue just exposes the fact that far less attention was paid to all the news personalities and organizations who didn’t hold the Bush administration accountable in the lead up to the Iraq War- a much more important issue.
click image for my Washington Post blog and 2008 animation about this issue
The King of Saudi Arabia dies
King Abdullah has died at age 90.
A cartoon from the archives
Finally. SCOTUS agrees to take on marriage equality
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee over whether same-sex marriages should be legal throughout the nation or if individual states have the right to determine that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. It’s time for the question to be resolved. It’s time for equality for all Americans.
Statements in support of Charlie Hebdo
The two major U.S. cartooning groups and a cartoonists rights organization issued statements immediately after the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo (click on each for full statement).
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC):
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS):
Cartoonists Rights Network International:
The Charlie Hebdo massacre
Four cartoonists Five cartoonists were among the 12 murdered at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7th. My colleagues have banded together and continue to offer their support in the way they know best- through cartoons.
I’ll add more links later but meanwhile here’s the cartoon I drew in support of Charlie Hebdo right after hearing the horrible news:
My opinion piece “The killing of cartoonists” at the Washington Post