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ellisonz's JournalToons: Sinking Ships, Internet Piracy, the Inevitable Nominee and More. - 1/18/12
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, Roll Call - 1/18/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/18/2012
By Larry Wright, The Detroit News - 1/18/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 1/18/2012
By RJ Matson, Roll Call - 1/18/2012
By Osama Hajjaj, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions - 1/18/2012
By Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen - 1/18/2012
By Jeremy Nell, The New Age, South Africa - 1/17/2012
By Steve Benson, January 18, 2012
By Matt Davies, January 18, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 18, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 18, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 18, 2012
By Dan Wasserman, January 18, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 18, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 19, 2012
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Toons: Vulture Mitt, Pitcher Santorum, Fellow Republicans and More. 1/17/2012
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/17/2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/17/2012
By Parker, Florida Today - 1/17/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/17/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/17/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/17/2012
By David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star - 1/17/2012
By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 1/17/2012
By Tony Auth, January 17, 2012
By Clay Bennett, January 17, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 17, 2012
By Mike Luckovich, January 17, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 17, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 17, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 17, 2012
By Signe Wilkinson & Signe Wilkinson, January 17, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, January 17, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 18, 2012
Toons: The Mittle Class, Remembering MLK Jr., We're #196, and More. 1/16/2012
By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/16/2012
By Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com - 1/16/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/16/2012
By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/15/2012
By Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons - 1/15/2012 -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/mike-oneal-obama-death-prayer-psalm-109_n_1205059.html
By Steve Greenberg, Freelance, Los Angeles - 1/15/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/14/2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 15, 2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 14, 2012
By Walt Handelsman, January 13, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 16, 2012
By Steve Sack, January 16, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 16, 2012
By Jeff Danziger, January 16, 2012
Note: If these at some point disappear, I've exceeded my photobucket bandwidth on this account too
Michael H. Hunt: How Beijing Sees Us
By Michael H. Hunt
1-16-12
What is China going to do? Now that our Middle East wars are winding down, this question has fixated the U.S. policy community and policy commentators. Even aspirants for high political office feel compelled to have an answer. Will a rising China accommodate to international norms and institutions or try to reshape or undermine them? Is Beijing predisposed to cooperate with countries along its long land and maritime border, or will it seek domination? Are the Chinese bent on displacing the United States as number one internationally, or will they limit their aspirations the better to focus on domestic affairs?
While everybody has an opinion, no one has a compelling answer. And with good reason. Chinas Communist leaders make their decisions behind closed doors so outsiders are necessarily left in the dark. In any case, leaders at the top may not have a shared, coherent notion of the path ahead. And even if they do, their planslike all plansare hostage to contingent events.
If the future is fuzzy, the past is not. A substantial historical literature offers solidly grounded insight on how Chinese officials and commentators have viewed the United States from the nineteenth century to the 1970s. (The single most helpful work is David Arkush and Leo Lees Land without Ghosts; for other relevant works see the bibliographical essay in the forthcoming Arc of Empire: American Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam.) Let me suggest three conclusions drawn from my reading of that literature. Each is pertinent to any attempt to interpret recent developments and predict the future.
More: http://hnn.us/articles/how-beijing-sees-us
An interesting, if not a bit muddled look at American imperialism in Asia and how we've fallen into a sort of trap of miscommunication.
The reverse is true also; I think that Chinese motives continue to puzzle us too. The only correct possible conclusion is that nationalism is overblown and that we are more alike than we would care to admit. China is not strange, it was never a dream, it is exactly as it appears; the counterpart to the United States, a conglomerate behemoth that rose up and threw off the ropes of oppression of a colonial master and is seeking a new path. Like the PRC, we too tell ourselves that our revolution is the truest of revolutions. I am optimistic about the future; every time I read a prognostication of a future war with the PRC or impending doom, I just chuckle. I think it is only a matter of time before we see relatively bloodless change in the PRC as new blood replaces the old in the ranks of leadership. Who twenty years ago would have told you that a man named Barack Hussein Obama II would be President of the United States of America? The world is growing closer together every day, and as Ban Ki-Moon remarked today on Syria and the Arab Spring, without perhaps fully considering the full breadth of his statement: "The old way, the old order, is crumbling. One-man rule and the perpetuation of family dynasties, monopolies of wealth and power, the silencing of the media, the deprivation of fundamental freedoms .... To all of this, the people say: Enough." We will figure one another out.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101426414
21st Century ‘Yellow Peril?’
Posted by Paul J. Noto on 01/13/2012
About the author: Paul J. Noto studied political science and history at Washington College, received a JD from Western New England College School of Law and earned a masters degree in history from Iona College. An attorney and historian, Noto was a former mayor and legislator. He is the author of the new book At the Crossroads of Justice: My Lai and Son Thang -- American Atrocities in Vietnam, and resides in Mamaroneck, NY.
The recent announcement by the U.S. Army that several officers and enlisted men were being charged in the death of Private Danny Chen illustrates the problems that can occur when there is a breakdown in command discipline in a military unit. Poor leadership and a tolerance of racism toward Asians created an environment that failed Private Chen and the U.S. Army.
According to relatives, Chens fellow soldiers harassed him by taunting him with ethnic slurs and one time pulled him out of bed and dragged him across the floor; they forced him to crawl on the ground while they pelted him with rocks and called him names. They then ordered him to do pull-ups with a mouthful of water while forbidding him from spitting it out. Not long after that he was found dead in a guard tower, from what the military said was an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. All this while Private Chen was serving his country in a forward outpost in Afghanistan. Military prosecutors have charged Chens tormentors with an array of charges ranging from manslaughter to negligent homicide.
This is not the first case of hazing of Asian-American soldiers by military personnel. In October, 2011, several Marines were ordered court-martialed for their roles in the death of an Asian-American marine, Lance Corporal Harry Lew, from California, who killed himself in April in Afghanistan after being subjected to what military prosecutors said was hazing.
http://www.civilbeat.com/posts/2012/01/13/14519-21st-century-yellow-peril/
Perry unwinds at the shooting range
January 13, 2012 3:34 PM
By Rebecca Kaplan
RIDGELAND, S.C. - Running for president is a grueling business. There are early alarms for morning TV shows, late night fundraising calls and a full day of events in between. Candidates need an outlet for relaxation to help keep them focused.
For Rick Perry, that outlet could be found at the Palmetto State Armory here, where he made a late-morning stop to fire off a few (extremely accurate) rounds at a target.
After spending about 15 minutes in the range, Perry showed off his target to reporters with the holes closely clustered in the head and chest. He fired two guns, a 9-mm Ruger SR-9 and an AR-15 manufactured by the Palmetto State Armory.
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Was he picturing one of his opponents? The world will never know. When reporter Jay Root from the Texas Tribune asked whose face was on the target in his mind, Perry simply responded, "not you."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57358907-503544/perry-unwinds-at-the-shooting-range/
Palmetto State Armory - Ring a bell? It should! They sold the AR-15 "You Lie" lower reciever:
by Corey Hutchins, January 11th, 2011 04:07pm
A South Carolina gun and accessories company is selling semi-automatic rifle components inscribed with You lie a tribute to the infamous words of 2nd District Republican Congressman Joe Wilson when he shouted at President Barack Obama during a congressional speech about national health care reform in the fall of 2009.
Palmetto State Armory would like to honor our esteemed congressman Joe Wilson with the release of our new You Lie AR-15 lower receiver, reads a portion of the companys website.
The product is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Joe Wilson or his campaign, according to a line of text at the bottom of the page. A picture of Wilson holding a rifle and standing in the company's gun shop appears on the same page. The company offers the components, marked MULTI to accommodate most builds, for $99.95 apiece.
Only 999 of these will be produced, get yours before they are gone! the website reads.
http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=11861101110850039
As Rachel Maddow would say, sometimes it pays to be a complete and utter politics news junkie nerd...
Gangs are not the only evil
Friends and family gather at the home of El Camino High soccer player Francisco Rodriguez, 17, who was shot and killed Wednesday evening. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / January 12, 2012)
Edwin Johns Jr. was a hard-working college student gunned down a block from home. He didn't deserve to die, but really, what kid does?
By Sandy Banks
January 14, 2012
She's a mother and a high school teacher. She works in South Los Angeles but lives in a different neighborhood, one that affords her family the luxury of an arms-length relationship with crime.
So Jill Norton was stunned when she heard that a former student at Jefferson High a "sweet and innocent kid" who played on the football team, worked at a grocery store and graduated early to enroll in college had been shot to death on Jan. 2.
She was even more surprised when her daily search of the newspaper failed to turn up a mention of Edwin Johns Jr. or the shooting that took his life.
"I found nothing about him," Norton wrote to me. "Instead I found the article celebrating low crime rates, with a brief mention toward the end that 168 deaths were gang-related [last] year."
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0114-banks-20120114,0,3798502.column?page=1
Story on Francisco Rodriguez who is also discussed in this column: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-student-killed-20120113,0,710569.story
LATimes Homicide Report: http://projects.latimes.com/homicide/blog/page/1/
Smiley J Bang via Facebook
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/01/edwin_johns_jr_jefferson_high_football_killed_drive-by.php
This is a trenchant article on how our perceptions of violence in urban areas are skewed by police reporting to minimize our perception of the degree of suffering that occurs.
R.I.P. Edwin Johns Jr. and Francisco Rodriguez.
Toons: Persian Perversion, Vulture Parasite, The Politics of Envy and More. - 1/13/12
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/13/2012
By Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle - 1/13/2012
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/13/2012
By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/13/2012
By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/13/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/13/2012
By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/13/2012
By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/13/2012
By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/13/2012
By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 1/13/2012
By J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register - 1/13/2012
By Paul Zanetti, Australia - 1/13/2012
By Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria - 1/13/2012
By Stuart Carlson, January 13, 2012
By Ted Rall, January 13, 2012
By Ben Sargent, January 13, 2012
By Tom Toles, January 13, 2012
By Don Wright, January 12, 2012
By Jim Morin, January 15, 2012
Note: All previous editions can be found in my journal. Have a good weekend!
Toons: It's a Sweater Vest, Believe it Myself, Twinkie Shelf Life and More. - 1/12/12
By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/12/2012 - "Sanitized War"
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/12/2012
By Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette - 1/12/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 1/12/2012
By Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/12/2012
By Chris Weyant, The Hill - 1/12/2012
By Rob Tornoe, PoliticalCartoons.com - 1/12/2012 12:00:00 AM - The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA)
By Tony Auth, January 12, 2012 - "Drone War"
By Matt Davies, January 12, 2012
By Walt Handelsman, January 12, 2012
By Drew Sheneman, January 12, 2012
Note: All previous editions are available in my journal.
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