Joan Walsh's concern over other news org's not publishing this fairly innocuous cartoon is well founded. The Muslims have the media walking on eggshells, and the rest of society cowed, with their aggressive hypersensitivities and violent solutions to 'insult.' Would a cartoon somehow lampooning Judeochristian practices be treated with such concern?

-wmoser

GTFU. Liberals will forever and aggressively hang on to the myths of Bush not having won 2K and 2K4. Let's all repeat, "GORE WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" This is a fact. He also LOST Florida by a squeaker and (gasp!) lost the election. Several recounts including one by the so-called "Liberal Media" proved this.

Blacks, were not 'disenfranchised'. The African-American Florida vote was the largest in history but the professional victim/sore loser crowd will always magnify problems through race-baiting glasses.

Ohio was won fair and square. Diebold's machines (the usual bogeyman for 2004) were investigated by a bipartisan commission. No inequities.

The Dems rightly won 2006 and likely will take POTUS as well. The Republicans deserve to lose because of their mismanagement--but you won't hear them crying about UNFAIR balloting.

And, finally, NOBODY gets Tasered or 'disappeared' or 'silenced' for dissing the President. He's the biggest, easiest target out there and it takes no courage whatsoever to call him names.

William Moser

Oceano, CA

And (again) exactly how many of these brave antifascistas have had their doors kicked-in to be dragged off for interrogation and worse?

Michael Moore! Penn! Sarandon! Springsteen! O'Donell! Run for God's sake! Wait! They've burnt down The Nation's offices and Vandenheuval has disappeared! You're right afterall!

Hey let's try this as an experiment: Fly to Cuba and publish a full-page letter calling Castro a liar and a thief. Then go on radio and tell him to F*ck Off. Don't forget to include you name and addy.

Tah, tah...

Yes indeedy, FREE SPEECH is BEING STIFLED and the RIGHT to EXPRESS ONE'S OPINION is BEING MET with BRUTAL FORCE-----WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS BEFORE? AH, YES! IN Hitler's NAZI-FASCIST Germany, BROUGHT LOVINGLY BACK TO LIFE with Bushland Uber Allies, Fuhrer CHIMPya W. Bush-HITLER, Reichsfuhrer Torticola DICK-less B(ugger) Cheney-HIMMLER. They're NAZI but "NICE"?????>

Age 15?! 16? Grow some balls and have "the talk" at age 8, or 10! No wonder the schools feel free to turn them into dildo aficionados. Once the "educators" are done with your kids, they will care nothing of what you have to say.

This reads like something O'Reilly would make up to hammer the looney-left. Ya know what? He'd be right.

wmoser

The all-purpose bogeyman justifying yet more gov't intrusion and taxes.

And why is this writer and her 'experts' talking about aggressive fire-suppression like it's a new discovery. This has been known and written about for at least 30-years.

So-called environmentalists and the bureaucracies they foment are the prime causes of these fires; they won't allow burning. Too much CO2 ya know.

Global Warming is a hoax and will be proven as such within the decade. There will be much economic and social damage done in its name before then and the Leftists can then move on to a new trumped-up hysteria.

It occurs to no one on this site that this is exaggerated or even fabricated? American agencies have nothing better to do than brutalize innocents?

This is the age of whistle-blowers (cf. Abu Ghraib) and Pelosi, Reid, Conyers et. al. are only too willing to air our country's dirty-laundry. Yet there is not even anonymous corroboration from someone who might have witnessed, been involved with or had first-hand knowledge of what is alleged here.

Leftists are always so willing to believe or enjoy the worst of America. Where are your tears for those hundreds of thousands brutalized by Islamofascists and other tyrants? The luxury of uninvolved judgmental contempt can be enjoyed only in a country such as ours.

A side note. One notices that, with the suspension of Amerikkka's civil-liberties by the fascist tyrants Bush/Cheney, all public criticism and slander has utterly ceased. The liberal MSM must now submit all articles for 'review'. Amy Goodman and Michael Moore have 'disappeared' and the Hollywood Leftrists are no longer allowed to make movies...

Hillary will change with the winds; today she is the new, engaging, light-hearted Hillary who takes it all with detached amusement.

Edwards, of course, is For The People and will stand-up to those interests that are not Teachers Unions, Public Employees' Unions, special pleaders or grievance mongers.

Obama's charm makes him the man even Republicans could vote for, if they were not voting as well for ever more socialistic programs and naive foreign-policies.

As with most Leftist, they are Santa Claus politicians, promising to sell-out American interests (Kyoto/Bali), abrogate contracts for populist appeal (the mortgage crisis) and mandate impossible economies (the legislation of 'energy independence' while crippling ANWR oil, new gasoline refineries and nuke plants.) They then fall back on the tired rubric of 'greedy corporations' while ignoring the ever more powerful facts of greedy politicians and gov't bureaucrats.

It speaks volumes that Blacks/African-Americans supposedly need to hear from their 'leaders' to know what to think. This is the true bigotry; critical thinkers making even painfully clear, "incorrect" observations are routinely derided as "Toms" and "Aunties."

Conservatives such as John McWhorter, Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell, to name a few, are never invited to the "Black Forums" frequently seen on C-Span. The panels for these discussions will never refute the premise that America is a racist country (now "subtle", "institutionalized" and "endemic") or that success stories such as Condoleeza Rice's are proof of the sellout.

Arbitrary denounciations abound in the group-think/identity-politics mindset. It takes no courage to viscously slander a president or his (black) Sec. of State. Standing up to your own and speaking truth to THAT power; this takes real guts

At last! A die-hard, Bush-hating liberal who, like the mayor or Washington D.C., admits that which is painfully clear: ever more money and control given to the 'professional educators' is wasted.

Just as the Catholic hierarchy and Republican corruptocrats are in it mainly for their own fiefdoms, educrats will sell-out the students and parents for their dogmas.

Garrison stopped short of recommending vouchers which the DC mayor has embraced. That is the ultimate "empowerment" to the people; because, it is the MONEY that confers the power.