Election Year Blowout Preventer

Crazy taxers (new cartoon)

The government is positively losing its mind trying to come up with new taxes and fees to cover lost revenue. Apparently they don't realize that one of the reasons that they have lost revenue is because people aren't making enough money to cover the taxes and runaway spending that politicians and bureaucrats keep perpetuating.

Obama's teleprompter (new cartoon)

Obama will never give up his right to bear a teleprompter.

Hollow Man II: President Obama (new cartoon)

President Hollow Man, er I mean Obama. We have heard some hollow, if not downright duplicitous promises from President Obama since he took office. It seems that it has taken its toll.

Uncle Sam on life support (new cartoon)

The stimulus bill causes a hemorrhage that puts Uncle Sam in the ICU.

Al Sharpton causes a cold day in hell (new cartoon)

A possible future if Al Sharpton learns to not be offended by every little thing. Satan won't like it too much.

The new "octomom" delivers (new cartoon)

Well most of you have heard of the welfare mom that recently had octuplets, bringing her brood to fourteen. Now that the imperial congress has passed the new stimulus bill and along with all of the other liberal spending that's going on, we now have a new "octomom": the federal government.

NY Post chimpanzee cartoon

I have seen the NY Post cartoon with the chimpanzee that was shot dead by capitol police. The caption reads, "They'll have to find someone else to right the next stimulus bill". Now there seems to be something of a stink surrounding the cartoon because some politicians and people who call themselves community leaders are upset. They claim that the image is a blatant, racist attack of President Obama.

As a cartoonist and a libertarian I want to yell "Freedom of speech!". However, as a discerning reader I want to say, "What in the name of all that is holy were you thinking?".

In this day and age when people get their knickers in a bunch any time someone looks at them funny, it seems to me that some self-censoring might have been in order. Though I know that the cartoonist was trying to play off of the recent incident of the rampaging chimpanzee by comparing the new stimulus bill as rampaging pork, his execution was tenuous at best. And what concerns me more is that the Post's editorial staff didn't vet the piece more carefully.

All that being said, the fact is that the people most vocally "outraged" over the cartoon, are always outraged about something. They have no moral high ground. They have been "calling wolf" for decades and people no longer really listen to them. These self-proclaimed "leaders" wouldn't have anything to do if it wasn't for complaining. They would shrivel up and die. So I'm calling BS on their moral outrage.

SOURCE: AP story

Atlas Screwed

With the massive debt that Obama's stimulus bill will incur, someone has to shoulder the burden.

New Political Animation

I have released the first of my new weekly (hopefully) political animations. This one is entitled "Obama's Head". I was going for a direct assault on Mark Fiore's monopoly on animated political cartoons. Like many things dealing with the latest technology it seems that the Left has the upper hand on the Right when it comes to animated political punditry. Tell me what you think.