Washington has zeroes in with laser-like focus on the most pressing issue of our day–the unacceptable level of unemployment. No, wait! Just kidding. It’s cutting the size of government, which of course, matters more than anything else to the millions of Americans who can’t find work, who have lost or are in are in danger [...]

The post-2010 Obama style is emerging. Out is the optimistic liberal standard bearer. In is the Clintonian triangler. Let the Republicans frame the agenda, stay above the fray, expend as little political capital as possible, then step in as the mediator to forge a last-minute consensus. Hey, it worked brilliantly for Clinton, and it might [...]

Unless there’s a surprise agreement, the government will shut down at the end of the day tomorrow, largely because of the intransigence of the Tea Party members of the House, who apparently see compromise of any kind as a betrayal of their core principles. This, of course, is no way to run a government. Compromise [...]

Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has released his budget, and as expected, school funding takes an enormous hit. Wisconsin is not alone in sacrificing education, and it’s not just Republican governors who are mortgaging our kids’ futures to balance today’s budgets. Colorado’s new Democratic governor, John  Hickenlooper, has called for drastic cuts, too. I don’t [...]

The leaders of the newly-empowered Republican Party in the House are having trouble keeping their members in line. They miscalculated the opposition of their young firebrands to intrusive government when they brought the Patriot Act up for renewal, and they were blindsided by the Tea Party demand for deeper cuts than the members of the [...]

I probably shouldn’t draw cartoons I dream up in the middle of the night. I tried for days to come up with a New Year cartoon, without success. Last night at 3 am, this came to me. I’m not entirely sure it works, but deadlines do have a way of making cartoon ideas look better [...]

After a week off to work on a special ultra-double-secret project, I’m back. I’m so tired of the endless Washington ugliness, I decided to go elsewhere (sort of) for a cartoon subject. As a long-time space geek, I’m as troubled as anyone by the seeming lack of direction at NASA, its inability to leapfrog the [...]