Garry Trudeau may be a talented cartoonist, but more often than not he merely mirrors convention. The post Doonesbury’s Long, Not-So-Strange Trip appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Doonesbury’s Long, Not-So-Strange Trip Garry Trudeau may be a talented cartoonist, but more often than not he merely mirrors convention. Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography, by Joshua Kendall, Abrams Press, 339 pages. Early in my career as a second-grader, my teacher asked the class to take a piece of construction paper and draw the cover of a recently read book. For me, already a member of the journalism club, this was an ideal assignment, although it also brought forth the nascent contrarianism that would prove so useful in my professional career. I remember not wanting to pick a book that might be shared by a classmate. I…Open
Ingratitude may revive socialist repression—but at least the political jokes might get better. The post The Dictator Who Laughs Last appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture The Dictator Who Laughs Last Ingratitude may revive socialist repression—but at least the political jokes might get better. TakiMag Photo by Miguel Palacios/Cover/Getty Images In the good old days of the late Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship, he was known as la vache qui rit, the cow that laughs, because of his uncanny resemblance to the trademark animal of the French cheese brand of that name. (The best political jokes always emerge from dictatorships—they are the thing that one misses most about the Soviet Union.) Now it so happens that I bought…Open
The singer-songwriter began his Philadelphia show on Saturday night by apologizing for “mistakes” and saying he felt compelled to speak out about the “humanitarian issue.”
Eighteen service members have been killed since the U.S. war with Iran began in late February — including in hostile and non-hostile action — and more than 800 have been injured, the DCAS database said as of Friday.
The lawsuit names the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI and several Trump officials, seeking to prevent them “from deploying agents in a manner that unlawfully intimidates voters or anyone urging or aiding voters.”
The State Department wrote that the Ukrainian government requested S-300 Clone missiles, GAM-67 missiles, Range-Extended Air Defense Laser Guided Rocket missile systems, counter-drone radars and other related elements of logistics and program support.
Reuters again: How a major wire service frames the anniversary of a strike aimed at a designated terrorist group shapes how hundreds of downstream outlets and readers understand it. Leaving out who was targeted and why changes the story's meaning and slants the implied context. It's not the first time Reuters got called out for their consistently turning a blind eye to mishandling of photos from the Middle East.
Old wine in a new bottle: As threats against immigration agents move from social media into federal courtrooms, prosecutors are treating online calls to kill federal officers as crimes, and the sentences are starting to set a pattern. Threatening the life of the U.S. President became a federal crime in 1917, while criminal penalties for threatening other federal officials and employees were enacted later through laws like the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.
Concerns raised during the Biden era included vulnerability to terrorist attacks and health hazards like lead-painted steel beams, insufficient ventilation in bathrooms and failing sealants containing a cancer-linked chemical.