*DID THE WSJ PUT DANNY PEARL AT RISK?* *WACKY AT THE WHITE HOUSE* *AT THE NATION EVENT* The United States government has now posted a five million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of the killer or killers of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. As everyone following the story knows, Pearl was [...]
POLITICAL HUMOR*PEARL AND THE JOURNAL* PALAST ON VOTER PURGE Cartoonists of the world attention: you have more power than you think. According to the New York Times front page, the Secretary of Defense, Donald (“rummy”) Rumsfield has closed down the planned Office of Strategic Influence in part because “editorial cartoons about the office’s proposed activities [...]
*SCAMS* *WHO WON IN AFGHANISTAN?* *REJOINDER ON MIDDLE EAST* Last night, at a meeting with my neighbors, I learned that the taxes assessed on our building had skyrocketed. The city had decided to punish us for upgrading the elevator and making other improvements. What an incentive program for encouraging urban renewal! Then, this morning, the [...]
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