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.
Category: politics
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.
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
Cartoonists and Turkish President Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor. The New York Times has a story about how the Turkish president is trying to limit how he is depicted in drawings by arresting cartoonists and charging them with libel and insulting government officials (which is apparently against the law in Turkey). The Cartoonists Rights Network International also writes about it here.
My Washington Post cartoon about President Erdogan arresting a 16-year-old because the teenager criticized him received quite a bit of traffic on twitter among Turkish readers. It also ended up on the front page of Cumhuriyet, the oldest Turkish daily newspaper.
Happy New Year- 2015
My Washington Post editor, Karen Attiah, put together a great year-end review of several animations, sketches and gifs. Check it out here.
Former VP Dick Cheney was interviewed on Fox News last night and said President Bush was “fully informed” about the CIA interrogation methods, contradicting the Senate report’s finding that Bush was first briefed in 2006.
click image for animated gif
Rectal feedings, waterboarding, and more
The Washington Post has some excellent coverage and graphics about the Senate torture report:
Hayden’s testimony vs. the Senate report
The 10 most harrowing excerpts from the CIA interrogation report
Pay special attention to #2. According to the report, President Bush wasn’t briefed about the enhanced interrogation program until 2006. Doesn’t mention Cheney, though.
Senate torture report
A Senate report on the use of torture by the CIA during the GW Bush administration is due to be released this week.
2005 cartoon from the archives:
The militarization of the police
The Washington Post has an editorial about how military-grade weapons have transformed American police forces.
Former DC mayor Marion Barry dies
I moved to DC in 1992 so I missed all except the 4th term of Marion Barry (one was enough). The image which sticks in my head is from the snowstorm of 1996, when most streets were still not plowed for over a week and Washingtonians struggled to dig out. While walking through my Capitol Hill neighborhood I saw a sign someone had planted on top of one of the 10-foot snow mounds. It read “Mount Barry”.
