This cartoon was made for walking. This week I started drawing at a new studio space I am renting near my house. I have wanted a studio outside of my house for so very freaking long, so I was glad to hear from friend, fellow Cartoonist With Attitude Barry Goddam Deutsch that a space was [...]

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From David Sirota: At a recent hearing, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., called the language “TARP on steroids,” noting the provisions would deliberately let the executive branch enact even bigger, more unregulated bailouts than ever — and by unilateral fiat. Whereas the original TARP included some oversight language and power to limit Wall Street bonuses, TARP [...]

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So it’s the first of June, time’s up for General Motors, and the Gubmint has got a plan. You’ve already heard most of the details — the wrangling among the White House, UAW and bondholder negotiators, the 60% share the US government will take in ownership, the fuzzy math Republicans use to claim political bias [...]

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Click the image. It will take you on a magic carpet ride. Yes, yes, ride between the sound machine.

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The Washington Post reports that the ObamAdmin is luring financial companies into bailout programs with promises of avoiding restrictions imposed by Congress: The administration believes it can sidestep the rules because, in many cases, it has decided not to provide federal aid directly to financial companies, the sources said. Instead, the government has set up [...]

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Paul Krugman explains why the Obama-Geithner bank plan leaked to the NY Times this morning is a waste of tax-payer money: Bank runs can be contagious; partly that’s for psychological reasons, partly because banks tend to invest in similar assets, so one bank’s fire sale depresses another bank’s net worth. So now we have a [...]

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Click the outrage. Rage the outclick!

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You should totally click that toon, man. It’ll get BIGGER!

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Waving his magic wand, President Obama has brought sight to the blind and made the lame to walk, yea verily. Actually, he has ordered a halt to prosecutions of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay via the military tribunal process. The White House will review the cases individually and move most of them through the civilian [...]

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Now that a $700 billion (or is it $850 billion?) bailout bill has become law, reversing within only a few days a vote that struck down a less pork-laden version, it might be instructive to look at how this issue was presented to the American public. My time is tight today, so I apologize if [...]

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