One: Cut a Hole in a Box

Bob Gorrell, 4/26/13:

Wait, wait -- hasn't Gorrell been demanding immediate all-out war with Syria * for at least a year now?

Is he now angry that Obama is doing the thing he insisted Obama had to do?



* and Iran, but ignore that for now

Closed the Armored Cockpit Door

Lisa Benson, 4/26/13:

Sure, the line for most right-wing commentators is that Obama and the Democrats caved hugely and immediately to Republican demands -- they had an issue with possible public leverage, but gave up immediately -- but that's not good enough for Benson; if Obama is doing anything other than Boehner's orders, he's doing wrong.

Quick! Look Over There!

Chuck Asay, 4/26/13:

I'm mostly posting it for the world-class labels arrayed here by Asay, but let's not forget those very, very sour grapes: Republicans thought immigration was a great issue for them just a few short months ago, before it turned out public opinion was solidly against their plans (like so many of their other policies this past fall).

Fly Me!

John R. Rose, 4/26/13:

Air travel has never been politicized, not even when Reagan broke the air traffic controller's union, or when tight federal regulation was ended by Carter, or during the thousand battles over numbers of landing slots that saw local and national politicians taking airline money to help out their "constituents."

Nope -- never political at all. Just like everything else in the USA.

Ecology, Shmecology

Eric Allie, 4/25/13:

"Because we all know that God gave the Earth to Man to exploit, and nothing Man ever does could damage God's works. That's why global warming is just as false as the round earth, the ozone hole, and deaths from pesticides."

A Machine Designed to Kill People, or a Horrible Doctor

Bob Gorrell, 4/25/13:

Seriously, which one?

Gorrell honestly can't figure out whether a horrifically bad doctor is capable of killing as many people as an automatic weapon. Perhaps he should work out how quickly each one can kill a single person, and extrapolate from there.

Morning, Ralph. Morning, Sam.

Lisa Benson, 4/24/13:

There is no such thing as a "lone" terrorist* -- every single attack is planned and organized by an evil shadowy world-wide cabal.


* "Terrorist," of course, only means "foreigner who uses a bomb." Nice, quiet white Americans with guns have never qualified.

Lawyers, Guns & Money

Terry Wise, 4/24/13:

The only possible reason for wanting to institute laws that restrict human behavior around technology -- to require licenses for cars, for example, or criminalizing driving that car while drunk, or adding armored doors to airplane cockpits -- is an animistic desire to punish that technological item.

Therefore all such laws are anti-liberty, and must be immediately eliminated.

If It's Not Perfect, It's No Good At All

Lisa Benson, 4/23/13:

Somebody promised an utterly unbreachable wall on the Mexican border, and we don't have that!

Oh, sure, immigration is so low that we might have a net outflow of people to Mexico, but as long as one single person is able to cross a border illegally, everything is horrible!

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

Gary Varvel, 4/23/13:

Logically, if it were possible to eliminate criminals by making things illegal, it would have happened by now.

Therefore, since no law can completely eliminate crime, it's a sham to try to have any laws at all.

Anarchy Now!

The Best and Cheapest Lawyer

A.F. Branco, 4/23/13:

Republicans must resist the siren song of compromise -- which has proven oh-so-seductive to them over the past five years -- and romp to victory by making sure no part of the US government works at all by November of 2014.

An ambitious goal, certainly, but these could be the folks to do it.

Deserve's Got Nothin' To Do With It

Daryl Cagle, 4/22/13:

Constitutional rights only apply if you belong to the right category of person -- right now, if you're Muslim, you don't have any, just like you didn't have any rights in 1850 if you were black.

It's fun to speculate which group will lose all of their rights next! Maybe you!

Boo! Spooky Brown People!

Bob Gorrell, 4/22/13:

Terrorist plots are entirely defined by the culture and religion of the perpetrators, not by their actual ideology, aims, actions, or manifestos -- which of course means that Christian terrorism has been predominant for a good century.

Kumbaya, Y'Know?

Terry Wise, 4/22/13:

Everyone knows that Muslims can't speak in public without blurting out "Kill all the Christians!" or "I bathe in your blood, infidel!"

So they try to keep quiet in the kind of folksy small-town diners that Wise frequents.

Let's You and Him Fight

Terry Wise, 4/21/13:

The guy from Kentucky claims that Bostonians are cheesed off that the rest of us aren't outraged enough about the marathon bombing.

Or perhaps we're all saddened rather than outraged -- Wise seems to think that the proper response to anything is to round up some "bad guys" and do nasty things to 'em.

(I could be misreading this cartoon, of course -- "Where's the" is in one place and "National Outrage" is somewhere else, and "National Outrage" certainly looks big and impressive in this cartoon, not something one would complain about. But, if so, what does he mean?)

Keeping THOSE PEOPLE Out

Ed Gamble, 4/20/13:

No more Caucasian immigration! It's clear those shifty buggers can't be trusted.

More Latinos! When was the last time you saw a Mexican terror attack in the US?

When In Doubt, Combine Insinuations About Chicago and Dark-Skinned People

Mike Lester, 4/19/13:

So...is Lester saying

a) Obama only cares about the deaths of white suburban kids, not the inner-city kids who are the most common victims of gun violence?

b) that the US needs is a strong nationwide registry of guns, to stop guns bought in loosely-regulated (aka Republican) states flowing to states with tight regulations?

If not, what on earth is he saying -- that the families of all 30,000 gun deaths a year should be brought together if you ever gather any of them?

When Bombs Are Outlawed...

A.F. Branco, 4/19/13:

"...because it's not as if those terrorists had access to guns so that they could shoot and kill a policeman, right?"

Not Good for Children and Other Living Things

A.F. Branco, 4/18/13:

The gun bill that just failed in the Senate wouldn't do anything useful -- so clearly we need a stronger, more comprehensive bill to outlaw handguns and make a real national registry of guns, right?

The Running Man

Henry Payne, 4/17/13:

Marathoners are a cowardly, superstitious lot, who run away from danger the minute it happens.

(Or, if not, what is this cartoon saying?)

Sign O' the Times

Lisa Benson, 4/17/13:

Cops and EMS techs don't actually exist in the real world, only on signs? And bombs damage the image of those public servants? Is this cartoon trying to actually say anything? (Other than badly bobbling "a sad thing happened, and it is sad.")

Whenever I look at this cartoon, my brain hurts.

Shot With His Own Gun

Paul Fell, 4/16/13:

So the Second Amendment -- which allows Americans to carry projectile weapons of some variety, for some purposes (subject to a lot of arguing about the scope of both) -- actually ties the iconic representative of America up, so that someone else can shoot us all in the head.

Who, precisely, is the "someone else" in this scenario? North Korea? And how does the Second Amendment ties us up with relation to something else? Surely Fell means to give Uncle Sam a big gun that he's pointing at himself?

Insert Witty Pun on "Governor" Here

Randy Bish, 4/14/13:

If lefties say your budget is too right-wing and righties say it's too left-wing...then you must be a flesh-eating zombie!

Perhaps Bish has been watching too much AMC; be on the lookout for a Boehner-is-Don-Draper cartoon next week.

REALLY Big Pimpin'

Mike Lester, 4/13/13:

Oh, my! So much racism, so little time.

So Many Questions, So Little Thought

Michael Ramirez, 4/12/13:

First, note that the gun is labeled "gun control bill," not the cork. So the cork is something else in this metaphor -- perhaps the NRA's power in making that bill useless?

So is Ramirez complaining that outside forces have ruined what could have been a perfectly good bill, or is he demanding a full gun ban -- which would prevent "another Sandy Hook?"

Or is he just confused?