I put together this short video because I’ve been thinking about political caricatures, and how important they are to American politics. One of the first was drawn by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 to urge American independence. Here it is:
Pretty tame compared with some more recent ones, huh?
I’ve noticed with the current spate of Obama-as-[insert your [...]
At a meeting of conservative activists, this was their reaction upon hearing the news that we had lost our bid to host the 2016 Olympics:
I guess I’m old-fashioned. I thought that real Americans rooted for their country, no matter what they felt about the President. Did the people who hated Roosevelt secretly root for the [...]
Florida freshman Democrat Alan Grayson described the Republicans’ health care plan on the floor of the House.
