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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
By Mark Steyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi
PREFACE
By Allen Forkum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
November 2004 to October 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
CARTOON JIHAD
The C&F Mohammed Cartoons by Allen Forkum
Publish or Perish by Robert Tracinski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
GROUND ZERO
The 9/11 Memorial Battle by Allen Forkum
The Great Ground Zero Heist by Debra Burlingame . . . .173
COVERS
Illustrations for The Intellectual Activist magazine
and AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report newspapers . . . . .181
CARICATURES
By John Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
BUSTER McNUTT
Gag cartoons for the Spare Parts humor column . . . . . . . . .195
MISCELLANEOUS
Projects for ourselves and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205
INTERVIEW
Cox & Forkum interview Cox & Forkum . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
JOHN’S SKETCHBOOK
Pages from John’s June 2005 to April 2006 sketchbook . . . .221
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233
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INTRODUCTION
Jokes are no laughing matter these days, avuncular figure in star-spangled cutaway Exorcism movie. And their cartoons on
not if you’re a Danish cartoonist. It never coat of a thousand small-town Fourth of the wretchedness of the proposed 9/11
occurred to me that it would seem entirely July parades, but instead a muscle-bound memorials in New York and elsewhere are
normal to switch on the radio and hear warrior with biceps to rival Rosie the an eloquent comment on a society whose
headlines like: Riveter’s. You can find him on page 26 urge to apologize for itself is now so reflex-
and page 129 in this new collection, and ive it taints and dishonors even the
“The Danish cartoon death toll is now up sorely put upon in the latter. And just as grimmest day in modern history. The
to nine.” Rosie was an iconic image from the war of superb cartoon on page 177 is especially
60 years ago, it would be heartening if noteworthy: the lobby of the proposed
And it only climbed from there. But for C&F’s Uncle Sam were to become simi- International Freedom Center at Ground
that very reason cartoons, gags, laughs are larly emblematic this time around. Zero offers signs indicating the way to
all the more important. The demand “9/11 Finger-Painting” and “9/11 Finger-
from, ahem, certain groups that no jokes After I wrote about my trip to the US Pointing.” This wonderfully distills the
can be made about them, that they can camp at Guantanamo in late 2006, Cox & two default modes of the age: the outright
only be taken extra-super-duper mega- Forkum republished their cartoon from self-loathing, and the slyer but just as
seriously is not a peripheral matter but two years earlier showing a Gitmo inmate debilitating sappy happy-faced banality of
central to a free society. If you’re relaxing under a parasol while reading The cultural relativism. Most of us no longer
excluded—or demand to be excluded— Joy Of Jihad (page 8). Obviously, US have any expectations of a memorial that
from the jokes a society tells about itself, troops do not literally serve cocktails to Al will truly honor those who died that day,
you can never truly be part of that society: Qaeda detainees, but the cartoon never- and Americans who still value the old
in the end any meaningful assimilation theless captures the essential truth of what virtues will find more truth in these car-
requires you to be part of the joke. I saw with my own eyes: a world in which toons than in anything likely to arise from
detainees are served fresh-baked Ramadan the rubble of lower Manhattan.
Many of us discovered Cox & Forkum in pastries, interrogated in a La-Z-Boy reclin-
the days after September 11th. It was a er, and in the event that someone is so cul- These are tough times. But that’s all the
strange time. After cartoonists had done turally insensitive as to run up, say, a US more reason to be grateful to those who
their initial muted-in-sorrow Statue-of- flag at the facility it will be removed from can find a moment of black humor on a
Liberty-with-head-bowed-to-the-missing- their view at the first complaint. Yet, even bleak horizon. Cox & Forkum have con-
towers tastefully tragic responses to the though the average weight gain of tributed a grand visual record of the first
day itself, many seemed to have great diffi- detainees is 18 pounds, the very word stage of this long war, and I’m glad to
culty finding a tone for the new era. And Guantanamo has somehow become the know they’ll be with us in the years ahead.
into the void stepped Cox & Forkum. I universally recognized shorthand for tor-
know a lot of composers and lyricists get ture/death camp/the new Gulag. C&F’s Mark Steyn
fed up with the old question about cartoon is a more accurate portrait of the October 2006
“Which comes first—the words or the reality of Gitmo than innumerable in-
music?” and I’m sure cartoon teams get depth reports in the US and European Mark Steyn is an internationally syndicated
tired of explaining the division of labor, media. That’s what good cartoons do. columnist whose writing regularly appears in such
too. But, just as most lyricists will tell you publications as the Chicago Sun-Times, The
the first requirement of a good lyric is There are some special sections in this Atlantic, The Jerusalem Post and The New
good music, I reckon in cartoons the basic book and they’re worth treasuring. Among York Sun. His past books include The Face of
requirement of the wittiest pun is a dis- John Cox’s caricatures, the one of The Tiger and From Head to Toe. His new
book is America Alone: The End Of The
tinctive visual style. For me Cox & Muqtada Al-Sadr (page 188) captures
World As We Know It.
Forkum’s visual signature is their render- precisely his childlike malevolence, like an Visit www.Steynonline.com for his latest.
ing of Uncle Sam: he’s not the elderly Islamic version of the teen psycho in an
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PREFACE
Like our last two books, this volume is a our work together. For example, we dis- newspaper. Knowing that some European
compilation of Cox & Forkum editorial cuss how John and I have different, often countries ban Holocaust denial, the
cartoons produced over a certain time conflicting approaches to creating car- Iranians hoped to divert attention away
period, in this case between November toons, a dynamic we think makes the from the cartoon jihad by soliciting car-
2004 and October 2006. Also included work better, if sometimes frustrating. toons that questioned and mocked the
are additional works, such as our Buster Holocaust. In “The Ahmadinejad Code,”
McNutt gag cartoons, covers for The Also, unlike our last book, I have pulled you’ll see and read about our attempt to
Intellectual Activist magazine, and special some editorial cartoons out of the general subvert the contest with a cartoon con-
project cartoons—all of which were fea- population in the front of the book and taining a hidden anti-regime message.
tures included in our most recent book. devoted sections to them.
Even the title, obviously, was resurrected. As always, we’re grateful to you, our read-
In “Ground Zero” you’ll find all our car- ers, for supporting our work. We’re being
But this book also contains a number of toons relating to the battle for a proper seen in more and more places, including
new features. World Trade Center memorial complex. newspapers like The Washington Times,
The museum and art venues had taken on Investor’s Business Daily, and National Post
For starters, we’re honored to have an a decidedly leftist bent, and a Wall Street (Canada). Other publications range from
introduction penned by the great Mark Journal editorial by Debra Burlingame Hamodia, a New York City paper, to Neo,
Steyn. If you aren’t already, you should be sounded the alarm. That editorial is a Swedish magazine. This past year, Avi
reading him regularly at Steynonline.com. included here because it motivated us and Frier at Florida Jewish News entered our
His columns are insightful, original, and many others to fight back. cartoons into the American Jewish Press
hilarious, particularly in regard to Islamists Association’s annual Rockower Awards.
and their multicultural apologists. He’s But in the two years since our last book, We were proud to garner first place for
even inspired our work (see “The Real one event stands above the others for us— Excellence in Editorial Cartooning. And
Suicide Bomb” on page 61). Our deepest the “cartoon jihad.” The violent Muslim we’re all over the Internet, from blogs like
gratitude goes to Mark. uproar over the Danish Mohammed car- Little Green Footballs and Michelle
toons—and the often submissive reaction Malkin, to online magazines such as
There’s a lot of John’s own artwork here by the West—made apparent to us the Townhall.com and Libertad Digital in
than in previous volumes. Look for a spe- urgent necessity to defend free speech Spain.
cial section of his caricatures, including against Islamists. In this book there are
some that never appeared on our Web two special sections dealing with the issue. We hope you enjoy these cartoons from
site. And as a bonus we’ve reproduced the past, as well as those still to come.
pages from one of John’s many sketch- In “Cartoon Jihad,” I’ve collected all of
books. You can see what he doodles off our Mohammed-related cartoons, as well
the top of his head (and it’s not always as commentary by me and Robert Allen Forkum
pretty!). Tracinski, editor and publisher of The October 2006
Intellectual Activist. Robert explains why
Interviews have been a standard feature of we must “publish or perish.”
our books. But his time, instead of being
interviewed by others, we decided to inter- One consequence of the Mohammed car-
view ourselves. Hopefully we’ve provided toons was an international Holocaust car-
a little more of an inside perspective on toon contest sponsored by Iran’s largest
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EDITORIAL CARTOONS
November 2004 to October 2006
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Hornet’s Nest
November 12, 2004
Color Me Skeptical
November 14, 2004
Annan Threat
November 19, 2004
With A Word
November 22, 2004
Anchor Aweigh
November 26, 2004
Abandon Ship
December 5, 2004
From Reuters:
“Students, once the backbone of
Iran’s reformist movement,
heckled and harangued President
Mohammad Khatami ... ,
accusing him of lacking the
courage to deliver promised
democratic reforms in the
Islamic state.
“‘Khatami, what happened to
your promised freedoms?,’
‘Khatami, shame on you,’
‘Students are wise, they detest
Khatami,’ groups shouted as the
moderate cleric attempted to
address some 1,500 students at
Tehran University. ...
“Student leaders, many of whom
have been jailed for taking part
in pro-democracy protests in
recent years, said Khatami had
failed to stand by them.”
Sprawl or Bust
December 8, 2004
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Blood Money
December 10, 2004
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In The Soup
December 12, 2004
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Mullah Pet
December 14, 2004
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Extreme Makeover
December 19, 2004
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Time and Again
December 20, 2004
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Tsunami
December 28, 2004
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PA Ballot
January 2, 2005
From AP:
“Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas said ... that he wants to
shield Palestinian militants
from Israel and indicated he
has no plans to crack down on
gunmen after upcoming presi-
dential elections.”
We were disappointed but not
surprised when Hamas later
won Palestinian elections.
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Annus Horribilis
January 3, 2005
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EnvironMental
January 5, 2005
From Knight-Ridder
“Palestinian interim leader
Mahmoud Abbas yesterday
called Israel the ‘Zionist enemy’
after an Israeli tank killed seven
Palestinians, four of them
young brothers, in a northern
Gaza strawberry field.”
Charles Krauthammer wrote:
“Now Arafat is dead,
Mahmoud Abbas is poised to
succeed him, and the world is
swooning again. Abbas, we are
told, is the great hope, the
moderate, the opponent of
violence, the man who has said
the intifada was counterpro-
ductive. The peacemaker
cometh. Once again, euphoria
is in the air. Once again, no
one wants to listen to what is
being said.”
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Yellow Journalism
January 12, 2005
From AP:
“Cavemen lived a healthy
lifestyle: Their calorie intake
stayed low because food was
hard to find, and they exer-
cised regularly to bring home
the bacon. The government
wants Americans to follow that
approach. Today, however,
food is at their fingertips, driv-
ing has replaced running and
people are fatter than ever.”
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Serpentine Diplomacy
January 16, 2005
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From CNN:
“The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee ... voted 16-2 in
favor of confirming
Condoleezza Rice as secretary
of state. ... Democratic Sens.
Barbara Boxer of California
and John Kerry of
Massachusetts were the two
dissenting votes on the
committee.”
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Balancing Act
January 23, 2005
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Zarqawi’s Vote
January 24, 2005
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Secular Face
January 25, 2005
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Iraqis Vote
January 30, 2005
From CNN:
“Millions of Iraqis braved the
threat of attacks ... to cast
ballots in the nation’s first free
elections in half a century—
a vote hailed by officials as a
success in the face of an
insurgency. ...
“Insurgents had vowed to wash
the streets with ‘voters’ blood,’
and more than a dozen attacks
killed more than two dozen
people and wounded
71 others.”
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New Direction
February 7, 2005
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House of Hate
February 8, 2005
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Cease Process
February 10, 2005
From Reuters:
“Saudi Arabia’s morality police
are on the scent of illicit red
roses as part of a clampdown
on would-be St Valentine’s
lovers in the strict Muslim
kingdom.
“The Committee for the
Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice, Saudi
Arabia’s powerful religious
vigilantes, have banned shops
from selling any red flowers in
the run-up to February 14.”
In the original cartoon,
the roses are red.
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Bash Brothers
February 14, 2005
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Black Wedding
February 17, 2005
From AP:
“The USS Jimmy Carter
entered the Navy’s fleet ...
as the most heavily armed
submarine ever built, and as
the last of the Seawolf class of
attack subs that the Pentagon
ordered during the Cold War’s
final years.
“The $3.2 billion Jimmy
Carter was commissioned
[Feb. 19], the first submarine
named after a living
ex-president. Carter, a
submariner during his time in
the Navy, was on hand for the
ceremony signaling the end of
an era in submarining.”
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Limited Partnership
February 21, 2005
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Backsliding
February 22, 2005
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Cedar Revolution
February 24, 2005
From CNN:
“The Lebanese government
abruptly resigned [Feb. 28]
during a stormy parliamentary
debate, prompting a tremen-
dous roar from tens of thou-
sands of anti-government
protesters in central Beirut.
“The demonstrators, awash in
a sea of red, white and green
Lebanese flags, had demanded
the pro-Syrian government’s
resignation—and the with-
drawal of Syrian troops from
Lebanon—since this month’s
assassination of former Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri.”
Hezbollah, however, would
remain.
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The Nightmare
February 26, 2005
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Oh, Canada
February 27, 2005
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From AP:
“Vatican officials on [Feb. 17]
held out Pope John Paul II’s
stoic suffering with Parkinson’s
disease as an antidote to the
mentality that modern medicine
must cure all, calling this a
‘religion of health’ that is taking
hold in affluent countries. ...
“Psychiatrist Manfred Lutz, a
Vatican academic, hailed John
Paul, who for years has strug-
gled with Parkinson’s, as ‘the
living alternative to the prevail-
ing health-fiend madness.’ ...
‘Precisely in the handicap, in
the disease, in the pain, in old
age, in dying and death one can,
instead, perceive the truth of life
in a clearer way,’ Lutz said.”
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Consensus Justice
March 3, 2005
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Rules of Engagement
March 6, 2005
From CNN:
“In an article published
[March 6] in her newspaper, Il
Manifesto, Giuliana Sgrena
wrote, ‘Our car was driving
slowly,’ and ‘the Americans
fired without motive.’ ...
“The US military said Sgrena’s
car rapidly approached a
checkpoint [at] night, and
those inside ignored repeated
warnings to stop. Troops used
arm signals and flashing white
lights, fired warning shots in
front of the car, and shot into
the engine block when the
driver did not stop, the mili-
tary said in a statement.”
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Foreign Interference
March 8, 2005
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All Bark
March 10, 2005
From AP:
“Although the United Nations
and its agencies already have
12 treaties covering terrorism,
a universal definition has been
elusive.
“World leaders and officials
have had deep disagreements
over whether resisters to
alleged oppression—for
example, Palestinian suicide
bombers attacking Israeli tar-
gets—are terrorists or freedom
fighters; and whether states
that use what they think is
legitimate force might be
branded terrorists.”
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Coming Home
March 13, 2005
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China Syndrome
March 15, 2005
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Bush Piñata
March 20, 2005
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Mugabe’s Campaign
March 29, 2005
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Penal Injustice
April 10, 2005
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UN China Shoppe
April 13, 2005
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Poperazzi
April 21, 2005
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Taiwanese Take-out
April 24, 2005
Sinking Feeling
April 26, 2005
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Nuke-Go-Round
May 1, 2005
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Afghan Times
May 5, 2005
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Blame Games
May 10, 2005
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Flushed
May 15, 2005
From Reuters;
“Newsweek magazine ... said it
erred in a May 9 report that
said US interrogators
desecrated the Koran at
Guantanamo Bay [by flushing
it down a toilet], and
apologized to the victims of
deadly Muslim protests
sparked by the article.”
Glenn Reynolds noted:
“People died, and US military
and diplomatic efforts were
damaged, because—let’s be
clear here—Newsweek was too
anxious to get out a story that
would make the Bush
Administration and the
military look bad.”
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Our SOB
May 17, 2005
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Bibliocide
May 18. 2005
In a critique of a National
Review article by Paul
Marshall, Robert Spencer of
Jihad Watch wrote:
“The bigger story here, and the
gorilla in the living room that
no one wants to notice, is that
flushing a Qur’an down the
toilet should not be grounds to
commit murder. ... [Marshall’s]
argument is this: Newsweek
should have known that this
story would lead to deaths.
Therefore, they shouldn’t have
printed it. But he says nothing
whatsoever about a culture
that condones—celebrates—
wanton murder of innocent
people, mayhem, and
destruction in response to the
alleged and unproven
destruction of a book.”
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Fallowed Ground
May 22, 2005
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Extraordinary
Circumstances
May 24, 2005
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EUnity
June 2, 2005
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Doobious
June 7, 2005
From Reuters:
“Hollywood actor Sean Penn,
adopting the role of a
journalist, scribbled in his
notebook as Friday prayer
worshippers in Tehran chanted
‘Death to America.’
“Penn, 44, [was] in Iran on a
brief assignment for the San
Francisco Chronicle ahead of
presidential elections. ... ”
Penn later told Reuters:
“I understand the nature of
where [the chant] comes from
and what its intention is,” he
said. “But I don’t think it’s
productive because I think the
message goes to the American
people and it is interpreted
very literally.”
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Queuetopia
June 14, 2005
From an editorial in
The Wall Street Journal:
“The larger lesson here is that
health care isn’t immune from
the laws of economics.
Politicians can’t wave a wand
and provide equal coverage for
all merely by declaring medical
care to be a ‘right,’ in the word
that is currently popular on the
American left.
“There are only two ways to allo-
cate any good or service: through
prices, as is done in a market
economy, or lines dictated by
government, as in Canada’s
system. The socialist claim is
that a single-payer system is
more equal than one based on
prices. ... Or, to put it another
way, Canadian health care is
equal only in its shared scarcity.”
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Debt Sentence
June 16, 2005
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Durbin Warfare
June 17, 2005
From AP:
“The White House and Senate
Republicans ... assailed a
Democrat [Sen. Dick Durbin]
for comparing American
interrogators at Guantanamo
Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags,
and Khmer Rouge leader
Pol Pot.
Mark Steyn wrote:
“One measure of a civilized
society is that words mean
something: ‘Soviet’ and ‘Nazi’
and ‘Pol Pot’ cannot equate to
Guantanamo unless you’ve
become utterly unmoored
from reality. Spot the odd one
out: 1) mass starvation; 2) gas
chambers; 3) mountains of
skulls; 4) lousy infidel pop
music turned up to full
volume.”
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Knock the Vote
June 21, 2005
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Property Wrongs
June 23, 2005
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Hostage
June 30, 2005
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London Calling
July 7, 2005
From UPI:
“Britain Prime Minister Tony
Blair’s decision to leave the G8
summit to take charge of the
response to the London
bombings, now assumed to
have been the work of
Al Qaeda, underscored the
prime responsibility of heads
of government for the national
security. The other powerful
concerns of the G8 summit—
poverty in Africa and global
warming, the rise of China and
the unstable system of interna-
tional finances—faded into
lesser proportion as London’s
casualty toll rose to a reported
20 dead and at least 160
wounded after a concerted
attack on the transit system of
the British capital.”
The death toll would reach 52.
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Hearings Impaired
July 10, 2005
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Terrorism Pays
July 12, 2005
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Akbar Ganji
July 19. 2005
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Sanitized
July 24, 2005
From MEMRI:
“In his Friday sermon of July
15, 2005, Sheikh Al-Sudayyis
said: ‘Oh Allah, liberate our
Al-Aqsa Mosque from the
defilement of the occupying
and brutal Zionists. ... Oh
Allah, punish the occupying
Zionists and their supporters
from among the corrupt infi-
dels. Oh Allah, scatter and dis-
perse them, and make an
example of them for those
who take heed.’
“It should be noted that the
website www.alminbar.net,
which regularly posts Al-
Sudayyis’s sermons, edited out
the above segment, as did the
Saudi Gazette, which regularly
reports on his sermons.”
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Labor Movement
July 25, 2005
From CNN:
“The Teamsters and the
Service Employees
International Union voted ...
to withdraw from the AFL-
CIO. The announcement
came on the first day of the
50-year-old labor federation’s
annual meeting.”
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Prickly Situation
July 27, 2005
From CNN:
“While the Bush
Administration began handing
over 75,000 pages penned by
Supreme Court nominee John
Roberts without an official
request from senators, one
Democrat is already raising
questions about the White
House’s refusal to share papers
claimed to be protected by
attorney-client privilege.”
In September 2005, Roberts
became the seventeenth Chief
Justice of the United States.
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Operation
Murambatsvina
July 28, 2005
From BBC:
“The UN Security Council has
discussed a report on
Zimbabwe’s controversial slum
demolition campaign, despite
opposition from a number of
member countries. The report,
prepared by UN special envoy
Anna Tibaijuka, said the drive
had left hundreds of thousands
homeless and caused untold
human misery. ...
“Despite pleas for an end to
Operation Murambatsvina
(Drive Out Rubbish), riot
police continue to demolish
illegally built structures in
Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.”
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Democracy In Action
August 2, 3005
From AP:
“The framers of Iraq’s
constitution appear likely to
enshrine Islam as the main
basis of law in the country—
a stronger role than the United
States had hoped for and one
some Iraqis fear will mean
a more fundamentalist
regime. ...
“Already, Shi’ite leaders in
some southern cities have tried
imposing Islamic-based rules,
pressuring women to wear
headscarves and forcing liquor
stores and music shops
to close.”
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Err America
August 4, 2005
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Steven Vincent
August 5, 2005
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Show of Grief
August 14, 2005
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Woolly
August 17, 2005
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Re-wilding
August 21, 2005
From BBC:
“If a group of US researchers
have their way, lions, cheetahs,
elephants and camels could
soon roam parts of North
America, Nature magazine
reports. The plan, which is
called Pleistocene re-wilding, is
intended to be a proactive
approach to conservation. ...
“‘Obviously, gaining public
acceptance is going to be a
huge issue, especially when you
talk about reintroducing
predators,’ said lead author
Josh Donlan, of Cornell
University. ‘There are going to
have to be some major attitude
shifts. That includes realizing
predation is a natural role, and
that people are going to have
to take precautions.’”
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Foreign Aid
August 25, 2005
From CNN:
“The Italian Red Cross has said
it treated four ‘presumed Iraqi
terrorists’ at its Baghdad
hospital to secure the release of
two kidnapped Italian aid
workers, according to a
media report.
“Maurizio Scelli, the outgoing
commissioner of the aid
organization, is reported to
have said the deal ... was kept
secret from US officials.
“‘The mediators asked us to
treat and save the lives of four
presumed terrorists sought by
the Americans, wounded in
combat. We hid them and
brought them to the doctors
with the Red Cross, who
operated on them,’ Scelli told
La Stampa daily.”
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Second Course
August 28, 2005
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Ill-gotten
September 1, 2005
From AFP:
“Rescuers raced to reach
stranded survivors of
Hurricane Katrina as
authorities battled to stop
looters taking control of the
stricken city of New Orleans.
“With authorities estimating
hundreds of dead from [the]
storm—and not even
bothering to recover bodies
from the floods—news that
floodwater levels had stabilized
offered scant relief as the
enormous scale of the crisis
became apparent. ...
“US National Guard troops ...
girded for a mission to stem
rising anarchy in looting-hit
New Orleans, as authorities
tried to stop the situation
spiralling out of control.”
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Recovery
September 4, 2005
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N.O. Blame
September 6, 2005
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Brown Out
September 12, 2005
From CNN:
“Federal Emergency
Management Agency Director
Mike Brown resigned ... after
coming under fire over his
qualifications and for what
critics call a bungled response
to Hurricane Katrina.”
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Grilling
September 13, 2005
From AP:
“In a fiery speech to the UN
General Assembly, President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
denied his nation had any
intention of producing nuclear
weapons. ... The Iranian leader
lashed out at the United States
for its insistence on keeping its
nuclear weapons even as it
rejected Iran’s efforts to build a
peaceful energy program.”
From AFP a few days later:
“On show at an annual military
parade ... were ... six of Iran’s
Shahab-3 ballistic missiles—
which sported banners saying
‘Death to America,’ ‘We will
crush America under our feet’
and ‘Israel must be wiped off
the face of the earth.’”
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Tal Afar
September 20, 2005
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Rustler’s Rhapsody
October 2, 2005
From AP:
“The European Union insisted
... that governments and the
private sector must share the
responsibility of overseeing the
Internet, setting the stage for a
showdown with the United
States on the future of Internet
governance.
“A senior US official
reiterated ... that the country
wants to remain the Internet’s
ultimate authority, rejecting
calls in a United Nations
meeting in Geneva for a UN
body to take over.”
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Perils Before Swine
October 4, 2005
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From CNN:
“The US government is
getting set to add billions of
dollars to its budget to build a
stockpile of drugs to fight the
threat of a deadly avian flu
virus, and European
drugmakers are considered
the top candidates for
federal funds.
“But White House officials
will meet with representatives
from the US pharmaceutical
industry ... to encourage them
to get involved in making flu
vaccine amid fears of an avian
flu pandemic, CNN
has learned.”
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Their Perspective
October 9, 2005
From CNN:
“Al Qaeda frontman in Iraq
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi has
said Islam permits the killing
of ‘infidel’ civilians, according
to an audiotape broadcast on
the Internet ...
“‘In Islam, making the
difference is not based on
civilians and military, but on
the basis of Muslims and
infidels,’ said the voice
attributed to the fugitive
leader. ...
“‘The Muslim’s blood cannot
be spilled whatever his work or
place, while spilling the blood
of the infidel, whatever his
work or place, is authorized if
he is not trustworthy,’ said the
tape, whose veracity could not
be determined.”
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En Garde
October 11, 2005
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Synergetic Racism
October 16, 2005
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Recognition
October 20, 2005
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Grim Countdown
October 25, 2005
From AFP:
“Iran was hit by a barrage of
Western condemnation after
its hardline president called for
Israel to be ‘wiped off the
map,’ but the clerical regime
struck back with yet more
verbal attacks against the
Jewish state.
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
speech [was] delivered ... at a
conference entitled ‘The
World without Zionism.’ ...
“The spokesman of Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards, Seyed
Massoud Jazihiri, backed up
Ahmadinejad by describing
Israel as a ‘cancerous tumour.’”
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Trick or Treat?
October 28, 2005
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On The Mend?
November 1, 2005
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Free Tirade
November 6, 2005
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Envirophobia
November 10, 2005
From CNN:
“A solid phalanx of Republican
moderates drove House GOP
leaders to drop a hotly
contested plan to open an
Alaskan wilderness area to oil
drilling as a sweeping budget
bill headed toward a vote. ...
A plan to allow states to lift a
moratorium on oil drilling off
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
was also axed.”
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Historical Rewrite
November 13, 2005
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Change of Possession
November 15, 2005
From CNN:
“Israel and the Palestinian
Authority agreed ... on a
detailed arrangement for
opening the borders of Gaza
and to allow freer movement
for Palestinians elsewhere.
“It took all-night negotiations
and a strong diplomatic shove
from US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice to get a deal
whose basic elements had been
in the works for weeks.
“‘I have to say, as a football
fan, sometimes the last yard is
the hardest, and I think we
experienced that today,’
Rice told a news conference
where she announced the
agreement.”
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Breached
November 17, 2005
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Unfriendly Fire
November 20, 2005
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As Plain As ...
November 27, 2005
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Will Destroy Ya
December 1, 2005
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Winter Blunderland
December 6, 2005
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Eminent Domain
December 11, 2005
From CNN:
“The [Chinese] government
said three people died in ...
violence in [a] coastal village
northeast of Hong Kong, but
witnesses put the death toll as
high as 20. ...
“The police shootings ... were
the deadliest known clash yet
amid growing anger in areas
throughout China over
government land seizures for
construction of power plants,
shopping malls and
other projects.
“Farmers often complain they
are paid too little. Some accuse
local authorities of stealing
compensation money.”
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Naked Aggression
December 13, 2005
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Sic Transit
December 15, 2005
From CNN:
“If New York City bus and
subway workers strike when
their contract expires at 12:01
a.m. ET ... there will be ‘no
winners,’ Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said as he described
the contingency plan to deal
with a possible mass transit
shutdown.”
This cartoon came out about
the time Peter Jackson’s King
Kong hit the theaters. (The
original 1933 version is still far
better in my opinion.)
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Eavesdrop
December 18, 2005
From CNN:
“After The New York Times
reported, and CNN
confirmed, a claim that Bush
gave the National Security
Agency license to eavesdrop on
Americans communicating
with people overseas, the
president said that his actions
were permissible, but that
leaking the revelation to the
media was illegal. ...
“He acknowledged during [an]
address that he allowed the
NSA ‘to intercept the
international communications
of people with known links to
Al Qaeda and related terrorist
organizations.’”
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Extra, Extra
December 20, 2005
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Indefensible
December 27, 2005
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Shady Threat
January 1, 2006
From AP:
“Republican Senator Mitch
McConnell agrees with
President Bush that whoever
leaked the details about a
domestic spying program has
‘breached our national security
and endangered Americans.’
And he says the Justice
Department should ‘go after’
that person.
“But Democrat Charles
Schumer says the leaker could
just be a ‘whistleblower’ trying
to expose illegal activity.
“Schumer tells ‘FOX News
Sunday’ that ‘there are differ-
ences between felons and
whistleblowers.’”
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Pipe Wrench
January 5, 2006
From AP:
“Rep. Tom DeLay, the defiant
face of a conservative
revolution in Congress,
stepped down as House
majority leader ... under
pressure from Republicans
staggered by an election-year
corruption scandal.”
From AP:
“The White House sharply
criticized Christian broadcaster
Pat Robertson ... for
suggesting that Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke
was divine punishment for
‘dividing God’s land.’”
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Fallout
January 10, 2006
From AP:
“Sen. Edward Kennedy, who
criticized Supreme Court
nominee Samuel Alito’s past
membership in a controversial
Princeton University alumni
club, severed his ties ... with a
former Harvard college social
club that bans women
members.”
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Sheltering Guise
January 15, 2006
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Brokeback Diplomacy
January 19, 2006
From AFP:
“The EU negotiating trio and
the United States, ‘are trying
to sell’ China and Russia on a
tough resolution at the IAEA
board of governors meeting to
send Iran before the Security
Council for possible sanctions,
said a second Western
diplomat. ...
“China, a major recipient of
Iranian oil, and Russia [a key
Iranian trade partner] want to
give diplomacy more time in a
crisis which escalated when
Tehran earlier this month
announced it was resuming
nuclear fuel work that can also
make atom bomb material.”
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Driver’s Seat
January 24, 2006
From CNN:
“Prime Minister-elect Stephen
Harper pledged to carry out
his campaign promises quickly
to cut taxes, get tough on
crime and repair strained ties
with Washington after his
Conservative Party won
national elections in Canada.
“That may be easier said than
done. The Conservatives’
winning margin was too
narrow to rule with a majority,
a situation that will make it
hard for them to get legislation
through the divided House of
Commons.”
This cartoon was a follow-up
to the cartoon on page 89.
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Thugocracy
January 26, 2006
From CNN:
“Hamas deserves to be
recognized by the international
community, and despite the
group’s militant history, there
is a chance the soon-to-be
Palestinian leaders could turn
away from violence, former
President Jimmy Carter said.”
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A Yen to Censor
January 29, 2006
From CNN:
“Internet search engine Google
has rolled out a China-based
version of its popular Web
site—one that bows to
Beijing’s censorship laws and
will edit the content of its
results. ...
“‘In order to operate from
China, we have removed some
content from the search results
available on Google.cn, in
response to local law,
regulation or policy,’ a Google
statement said.”
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Idle Worship
February 2, 2006
From CNN:
“The International Atomic
Energy Agency’s board of
governors ended their first
session of talks on whether to
delay reporting Iran to the UN
Security Council amid threats
by the Islamic state that it
would start enriching uranium
if its nuclear activities were
sent to the council.
“‘There is a disagreement
among board members
whether to report the Iranian
issue now to the Security
Council or at a later stage,’
IAEA Director-General
Mohamed ElBaradei said. ...”
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Undeniable
February 8, 2006
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Reined In
February 15, 2006
From CNN:
“[Rep. Tom] Lantos, who as a
teenager was placed in a
Hungarian fascist forced-labor
camp, angrily and repeatedly
asked whether Yahoo had been
in contact with the family of
Shi Tao, a journalist critics say
Yahoo helped police identify
and convict after he criticized
human rights abuses in China.
“Yahoo’s representative
eventually said that while
Yahoo condemned what
happened to Shi, it had not
contacted his family.”
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Port Holes
February 19, 2005
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Paradise Lost
March 5, 2006
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Udder Madness
March 14, 2006
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Sultan of Enlightenment
March 16, 2006
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Worse
March 19, 2006
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Keeping Up
Appearances
March 26, 2006
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Chaos Theory
March 30, 2006
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Lott of Pork
April 6, 2006
From AP:
“NASCAR said it was
‘outrageous’ that ‘Dateline
NBC’ targeted one of its race
tracks last weekend for a
possible segment on anti-
Muslim sentiment in the
United States.
“NASCAR said NBC
confirmed it was sending
Muslim-looking men to a race,
along with a camera crew to
film fans’ reactions. The NBC
crew was ‘apparently on site in
Martinsville, Va., walked
around and no one bothered
them,’ NASCAR spokesman
Ramsey Poston said.”
This cartoon is based on a
combination of ideas by three
Michelle Malkin readers: Chris
S., Steve B. and Uncle Jack.
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Assimilation Problem
April 9, 2006
From CNN:
“French students, emboldened
by President Jacques Chirac’s
cave-in on a youth jobs
measure, prepared new
protests ... to try to get rid
of other government
labor reforms.
“Unions declared victory ...
after Chirac abandoned the
measure that had spurred
nationwide unrest, paralyzed
secondary schools and
universities and created a crisis
for the government.”
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Victim Hoods
April 18, 2006
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Gas Fumes
April 25, 2006
7 7 6 5 8 9 4 1 5 6 3 8 4 EGary
E49 Katz
4F87101FC218C88
The Real Recycling
Problem
April 27, 2006
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With a Whimper
May 4, 2006
From CNN:
“Publicly blasting the United
States one last time, Al Qaeda
terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui
was formally sentenced to life
in prison ... for his role in the
September 11 attacks. ...
“US District Judge Leonie
Brinkema responded: ‘You
came here to be a martyr and
die in a big bang of glory.
But to paraphrase the poet
T.S. Eliot, instead you will die
with a whimper,’ she said,
borrowing a line from
The Hollow Men.”
Death would have been the
only real justice. But short of
that, we created the cartoon to
emphasize the best of a less
than ideal outcome.
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Reflections of a Despot
May 7, 2006
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Caller ID
May 14, 2006
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Castaway
May 17, 2006
From AP:
“[Ayaan] Hirsi Ali has become
one of the best-known figures
in the country. She has lived
under police protection since a
film she wrote criticizing the
treatment of women under
Islam provoked the murder of
its director, Theo van Gogh,
by an Islamic radical.
“Hirsi Ali resigned from
parliament ... saying in a some-
times teary voice it would be
impossible for her to
function as a politician while
fighting a legal battle over her
immigration status. ...
“Hirsi Ali has declined to say
what she will do next, or
confirm reports she will go
work for the American
Enterprise Institute.”
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EU-Bonz
May 21, 2006
From AFP:
“Iran, in its first reaction to a
European Union proposal
aimed at resolving a nuclear
standoff with the West, said
suspension of uranium
enrichment breached Tehran’s
legitimate rights. ...
“The EU draft proposal,
prepared by Germany, Britain
and France, calls on Iran to
suspend all enrichment-related
and reprocessing activities and
to continue this during
negotiations.
“The EU offers a package of
trade, technology and security
benefits if Tehran stops
enriching uranium to defuse
an escalating international
showdown.”
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Core Curriculum
May 23, 2006
From AP:
“Some lawmakers are warning
of a voter backlash against
members of Congress ‘trying
to protect their own’ if party
leaders keep escalating a con-
stitutional dispute over the
FBI’s raid of a representative’s
office.
“Yet not long after House
Speaker Dennis Hastert and
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
demanded ... the bureau return
documents it took, White
House aides were in talks with
Hastert’s staff about the possi-
ble transfer of the material,
perhaps to the House ethics
committee, according to sever-
al Republican officials.”
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Second Coat?
June 1, 2006
From CNN:
“The US military offered
condolences ... to relatives of
24 Iraqi civilians killed in
Haditha last November in
events that are now being
investigated as possible murder
by Marines.”
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Democracide
June 6, 2006
From CNN:
“[Palestinian President
Mahmoud] Abbas wants to
hold the nonbinding vote to
put pressure on the Hamas-led
government to accept the plan,
which calls for a Palestinian
state alongside Israel, implying
recognition of the Jewish state.
Hamas, which is committed to
Israel’s destruction, has
demanded changes to the
proposal and said it will
boycott the referendum.”
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Message From Above
June 8, 2006
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Valor Blind
June 13, 2006
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Forked Tongue
June 18, 2006
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Guns and Butter
June 20, 2006
From AP:
“International sponsors of a
stalled Mideast peace plan
agreed ... to channel aid to
cash-starved Palestinians for
health care, utilities and social
services, while continuing a
boycott of the militant-led
Palestinian government.
“The United States went along
with a compromise plan to
send mostly European money
through the World Bank for
services and to pay stipends
directly to poor people in the
Palestinian territories.”
So much for the Bush
Doctrine of considering
regimes “hostile” if they harbor
or support terrorists.
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Soldier’s Burden
June 22, 2006
From Reuters:
“Seven men were charged ...
with conspiring to attack the
landmark Sears Tower in
Chicago and the FBI building
in Miami in a mission they
hoped would be ‘just as good
or greater’ than September 11,
US officials said.
“But Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales told a news confer-
ence in Washington that the
plotting of the ‘home-grown
terrorism cell’ never went
beyond the earliest stages. ...
“The indictment said the men
pledged loyalty to Osama bin
Laden’s Al Qaeda in order to
seek support from it for their
desire to ‘wage war’ against the
US government and build an
Islamic army.”
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Scuttle
June 27, 2006
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Unrequited War
June 29, 2006
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Paper Bullet
July 5, 2006
From CNN:
“Japan ... called for ‘swift,
strong’ UN action in response
to North Korea’s missile tests,
while US officials cited
‘unprecedented’ international
unity on the issue. ...
“United Nations Security
Council members discussed a
draft resolution proposed by
Japan—and backed by the
United States and Britain—
that demands countries cut off
any money or materials that
could be used for North
Korea’s missile program,
diplomats said. The resolution
... also would condemn the
missile tests and demand that
Pyongyang cease any missile
activity.”
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Red, White and
Desecrated
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Exchange Rate
July 13, 2006
From AP:
“A senior Hezbollah official
said ... the guerrillas did not
expect Israel to react with an
all-out offensive after the
capture of two soldiers, the first
acknowledgment by the group
that it had miscalculated the
consequences of the raid two
weeks ago. ...
“‘The truth is—let me say this
clearly—we didn’t even expect
(this) response ... that (Israel)
would exploit this operation
for this big war against us,’ said
[Mahmoud Komati, deputy
chief of the Hezbollah’s politi-
cal arm].
“He said Hezbollah had
expected ‘the usual, limited
response’ from Israel.”
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July 15, 2006
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Disproportionate
Response
July 16, 2006
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Helter Shelter
July 20, 2006
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July 23 2006
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Cowardly Blending
July 25, 2006
From CNN:
“Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader
issued a worldwide call ... for
Muslims to rise up in a holy
war against Israel and join the
fighting in Lebanon and Gaza
until Islam reigns from ‘Spain
to Iraq.’
“In a taped message broadcast
by Al-Jazeera television,
Ayman al-Zawahiri said the
terrorist organization would
not stand idly by while ‘these
(Israeli) shells burn our
brothers.’
“‘All the world is a battlefield
open in front of us,’ said the
Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri,
second-in-command to Osama
bin Laden.”
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Usual Suspects
July 30, 2006
From CNN:
“Three of the shooting
survivors were in serious
condition, according to
Harborview Medical Center;
the other two victims were in
satisfactory condition,
including a woman who is five
months pregnant. ...
“According to [Seattle Police
Chief Gil] Kerlikowske, Haq
was upset over three world
events: US involvement in Iraq;
the US backing of Israel; and
what Haq said was the
mistreatment of the Pakistani
people.
“Haq found the Jewish center
by researching ‘something
Jewish’ on the Internet,
Kerlikowske said.”
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The Qana Massacre
August 1, 2006
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Castroectomy
August 2, 2006
From CNN:
“Celebration in the streets of
Little Havana gave way ... to
speculation about the state of
Fidel Castro’s health and what
would happen in Cuba if he
were to die, while county
officials activated a rumor-
control hot line.
“Castro remained out of sight
... after undergoing intestinal
surgery and temporarily
turning over power to his
brother Raul. Some in Florida
speculated that the leader who
has defied the United States
for nearly half a century
already could be dead.”
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First Casualty
August 6, 2006
From AP:
“Hezbollah leader Sheik
Hassan Nasrallah
acknowledges that Israeli
troops can sweep across south
Lebanon. But if he and his
militants can survive and keep
fighting, he will cement his
image as the unlikely new hero
of Arab nationalism. ...
“Anticipating the ground
assault, Nasrallah sought to
ensure his group’s survival and
safeguard its widening base of
support in Lebanon and
abroad by lowering the bar for
what would constitute victory.
“In a television interview ... ,
he defined victory as a
successful defense.”
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Direct Intercept
August 10, 2006
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Incoming
August 15, 2006
From BBC:
“An onslaught of criticism
greets the Israeli government
in the country’s press, a day
after the cease-fire in Lebanon
between Hezbollah and the
Israeli military came into force.
“Commentators note that
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
failed to achieve the objectives
that he had himself set out at
the start of the fighting,
primarily the release of the two
Israeli soldiers abducted by
Hezbollah and the destruction
of Hezbollah’s fighting
capacity.”
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Amended
August 17, 2006
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Disproportionate
Response II
August 20, 2006
From CNN:
“Iran’s top nuclear negotiator
said his country is willing to
return to serious talks on its
nuclear program ... , Iranian
media reported.”
A few days later from FOX
News:
“Iran’s hard-line president ...
inaugurated a heavy-water
production plant, a facility the
West fears will be used to
develop a nuclear bomb, as
Tehran remained defiant
ahead of a UN deadline that
could lead to sanctions.”
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Profiled
August 24, 2006
From Reuters:
“The American Civil Liberties
Union and a leading Islamic
group ... accused security
officials at New York’s JFK
airport of racially profiling
Muslims.
“‘The price to pay for racial
profiling is too high,’ Dennis
Parker of the American Civil
Liberties Union told a news
conference. ‘All people should
be treated in the same way
regardless of their race, their
ethnicity or their religion.’”
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Pluto, Outcast
August 25, 2006
From AP:
“Pluto, beloved by some as a
cosmic underdog but scorned
by astronomers who
considered it too dinky and
distant, was unceremoniously
stripped of its status
as a planet. ...
“The International
Astronomical Union, dramati-
cally reversing course just a
week after floating the idea of
reaffirming Pluto’s planethood
and adding three new planets
to Earth’s neighborhood,
downgraded the ninth rock
from the sun in historic new
galactic guidelines.”
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Militant Message
August 27, 2006
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Structural Failure
August 31, 2006
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Charm Offensive
September 7, 2006
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Tunnel Vision
September 12, 2006
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Critical Mass
September 17, 2006
From Bloomberg:
“Iran’s nuclear program is ‘not
an important subject,’ Iranian
President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said as he arrived
in New York to attend the
61st United Nations General
Assembly. ...
“Iran ignored an Aug. 31 UN
Security Council deadline for
the Islamic Republic to
suspend its uranium
enrichment, a process that can
be used to make nuclear fuel or
build a bomb, or face possible
sanctions.”
No report of a halo this time,
but Daniel Pipes noted that
Ahmadinejad’s speech closed
with references to the
“promised” Islamic messiah.
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El Diablo
September 21, 2006
From CNN:
“Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez tore into his US coun-
terpart and his UN hosts ...
likening President Bush to the
devil and telling the General
Assembly that its system is
‘worthless.’ ...
“John Bolton, US ambassador
to the United Nations, dis-
missed the speech, saying,
‘I think that [Chavez’s]
rhetoric today shows exactly
what kind of man he is. ... The
real issue here, is he knows he
can exercise freedom of speech
on that podium and, as I say,
he could exercise it in Central
Park, too. He’s not giving the
same freedom to the people
of Venezuela.’”
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Fleecers
September 24, 2006
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From CNN:
“During his interview with
Chris Wallace on ‘FOX News
Sunday,’ President Clinton also
said he came the closest to
killing bin Laden and suggested
that his administration took the
threat of terrorism more serious-
ly than the Bush administration
did before the September 11,
2001, attacks. ...
“US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice has taken on
former President Clinton,
strongly rejecting that notion. ...
“‘The notion that somehow for
eight months the Bush adminis-
tration sat there and didn’t do
that is just flatly false.’ But Rice
told the [New York] Post that
‘we were not left a comprehen-
sive strategy to fight Al Qaeda.’”
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Bailing Out
September 28, 2006
From CNN:
“For Republicans, the
[National Intelligence
Estimate] report provides more
evidence that Iraq is central to
the war on terrorism and can’t
be abandoned without giving
jihadists a crucial victory.
“For Democrats, the report
furthers their argument that
the 2003 Iraq invasion has
inflamed anti-US sentiments
in the Muslim world and left
the US less safe.”
I think they’re both missing
the bigger threat: Iran, which
has been waging a war against
us for decades, from the 1979
taking of American hostages to
today’s support of the
insurgency in Iraq.
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Stone Cold
October 1, 2006
From CNN:
“Filmmaker Oliver Stone
blasted President George W.
Bush ... saying he has ‘set
America back 10 years.’
“Stone added that he is
‘ashamed for my country’ over
the war in Iraq and the US
policies in response to the
attacks of September 11. ...
“‘We did not fight back in the
same way that the British
fought the IRA or the Spanish
government fought the
Basques here. Terrorism is a
manageable action. It can be
lived with,’ said Stone.”
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October 3, 2006
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Attention Deficit
Disorder
October 5, 2006
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Survey Says
October 12, 2006
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Support System
October 15, 2006
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Draw Me
October 17, 2006
In an address before a UN
conference entitled
“Cartooning for Peace: The
responsibility of political car-
toonists?”, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said:
“... [Cartoons] are no laughing
matter: they have the power to
inform, and also to offend.
Short of physical pain, few
things can hurt you more
directly than a caricature of
yourself, of a group you belong
to, or–perhaps worst–of a
person you deeply respect. ...
“If we banned all offensive
cartoons, we should make our
newspapers and websites very
dull, and deprive ourselves of
an important form of social
and political comment.”
He advocates self-censorship.
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Boo
October 30, 2006
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CARTOON JIHAD
CARTOON JIHAD
The C&F Mohammed Cartoons TIA: Over the years, I’ve come across TIA: Some people have dismissed the
By Allen Forkum some people who think editorial cartoons Danish cartoons as “juvenile,” and even
are trivial or unserious. But now we see a some of their defenders say that they’re
In February 2006, we dove headlong into set of cartoons becoming the center of, not just a joke, that they shouldn’t be taken
the controversy surrounding the publica- just a major international controversy, but too seriously. As fellow cartoonists, what
tion of Mohammed cartoons in Denmark. a clash of civilizations. Does this surprise do you think of them?
All of our Mohammed-related cartoons you at all?
are in this section along with two other AF: First of all, the cartoons collectively
features. In the bottom half of this page AF: Yes and no. Yes in that of all the have taken on a meaning apart from their
you’ll find the an excellent editorial by things published in the world that might individual merit. As soon as the fatwas and
Robert Tracinski, titled “Publish or be considered blasphemous of Islam— death threats were issued against the car-
Perish,” in which he explains why the con- from books to editorials to movies—it toonists, it no longer mattered if the car-
troversy was not merely a symbolic battle took just a few line drawings to ignite a toons were juvenile jokes or serious com-
for free speech. Robert published the firestorm. That was somewhat surprising, mentary. All that mattered was protecting
Mohammed cartoons in his magazine, mainly because John and I are in that line the right to create and publish “blasphe-
The Intellectual Activist. of work. But on the other hand, consider- mous” commentary. The atrocities of
ing the fundamentalist mentality con- September 11 should have demonstrated
The remainder of this introduction is a fronting us, it’s not surprising at all. The once and for all that Islamic fundamental-
previously unpublished interview with me Salman Rushdie affair was a precursor, ists want us dead. We must analyze, criti-
by Robert on the topic of the Mohammed and it’s apparent that things have been cize and even satirize the ideology that
cartoons and the response by Cox & allowed to get worse. motivates such barbarism.
Forkum: Continued on page 166
Publish or Perish writer is not simply some Arab fanatic in be worth spending much time debating it.
By Robert W. Tracinski the street carrying a placard that reads What is far more interesting is the fact
www.IntellectualActivist.com “Behead those who insult Islam.” What that such a debate is occurring, nonethe-
intimidates him is the feeling that, when less.
The central issue of the “cartoon jihad”— the beheaders come after him, he will be
the Muslim riots and death threats against on his own, with no allies or defenders— This is a fact from which the Western
a Danish newspaper that printed 12 car- that everyone else will be too cowardly to world can draw some crucially important
toons depicting Mohammed—is obvious. stick their necks out. conclusions.
The issue is freedom of speech: whether
our freedom to think, write, and draw is The answer, for publishers, is to tell the The West has long been aware that, while
to be subjugated to the “religious sensitivi- Muslim fanatics that they can’t single out we hold freedom of speech as a centerpiece
ties” of anyone who threatens us with any one author, or artist, or publication. of our liberty, the Muslim world does not
force. The answer is to show that we’re all united recognize this freedom. Before now, how-
in defying the fanatics. ever, our worlds have rarely collided. The
That is why it is necessary for every news- Muslims have not usually dared to extend
paper and magazine to re-publish those That’s what it means to show “solidarity” their dictatorial systems to control our
cartoons, as I will do in the next print by re-publishing the cartoons. The mes- own behavior within our own cities. The
issue of The Intellectual Activist. sage we need to send is: if you want to kill Salman Rushdie affair—the Ayatollah
anyone who publishes those cartoons, or Khomeini’s 1989 death edict against the
This is not merely a symbolic expression anyone who makes cartoons of “blasphemous” novelist—was an ominous
of support; it is a practical countermeasure Mohammed, then you’re going to have to warning, but Americans did not take it
against censorship. Censorship—especially kill us all. If you make war on one inde- seriously.
the violent, anarchic type threatened by pendent mind, you’re making war on all
Muslim fanatics—is effective only when it of us. And we’ll fight back. Now, seventeen years later, the Muslim
can isolate a specific victim, making him fanatics are making it clear: you don’t have
feel as if he alone bears the brunt of the But the issue of freedom of speech is too to come to our country, you don’t have to
danger. What intimidates an artist or clear, and too well settled, in the West, to be a Muslim. Even in your own countries
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A Right to Blasphemy
February 5, 2006
and under your own laws, you will not be made the right kind of deals with Saddam Note how The New York Times—like
safe from our intimidation. Hussein, or with the Iranian regime, or many other left-leaning newspapers—
with the Syrian regime, then the dictator- hides behind the evasion that the Danish
For the whole Western world, this is an ships over there would have no impact on cartoons are “silly” or “juvenile.” On the
opportunity to learn an important truth us over here. contrary: the best of the Danish cartoons
about the goal of the Islamists. Their goal provided a far more serious, hard-hitting,
is not to achieve any specific political But we can now see that the anti-Danish thought-provoking commentary than has
demand or settlement. Their goal is sub- riots did not explode spontaneously; they been provided in the pages of these same
mission: our submission to their will, to were instigated by the dictators, by the newspapers. While the mainstream media
their laws, to their dictatorship—our sub- regimes in Iran and Syria. To their credit, has drooled that Islam is “a religion of
mission, not just to one demand, but to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh peace”—in the midst of yet another
any demand the Muslim mobs care to Rasmussen and now US Secretary of State Muslim war—it was left to Danish car-
make. Condoleezza Rice have been pointing out toonists to suggest that Mohammed him-
this connection. The lesson for Europe: if self, and the religion he represents, might
Europe particularly needs to learn this you accommodate and appease the dicta- be the bomb that has set off all of this vio-
lesson. The Europeans have deluded tors, they won’t leave you alone. Having lence.
themselves into thinking that this is our gotten some of what they want, they will
fight. If only Israel weren’t so intransigent, But the prize for most abject surrender to
if only the US weren’t so belligerent, they Muslim dictatorship has to go to the leftist
told themselves—if only those cowboys The goal of Islamists is academics. The first to decry the Bush
didn’t insist on stirring up trouble, we administration as a creeping “fascist” dic-
could all live in peace with the Muslims.
submission: our submission tatorship, they are, perversely, the first to
And they have deluded themselves into to their will, to their laws, fawn in admiration before the world’s
thinking that they can seek a separate to their dictatorship—our actual fascists. If you think that’s an exag-
peace, that having the Danish flag on your geration, read an op-ed in Sunday’s New
backpack—as one bewildered young Dane submission, not just to one York Times by Stanley Fish, a famous
described it—would guarantee that you demand, but to any “Postmodernist” university professor and
could go anywhere in the world and be defender of “political correctness.” Fish
regarded as safe, as innocuous.
demand the Muslim mobs writes:
care to make.
Now the Europeans know better. With Strongly held faiths are exhibits in liberal-
cries of “Death to Israel” and “Death to ism’s museum; we appreciate them, and we
congratulate ourselves for affording them a
America” now being joined by cries of come after you and take the rest. Europe
space, but should one of them ask of us
“Death to Denmark,” every honest ought to have learned that lesson, at terri- more than we are prepared to give—ask for
European can now see that they are in this ble cost, in 1939; this ought to refresh deference rather than mere respect—it will
fight, too—and they are closer to the front their memory. be met with the barrage of platitudinous
lines than we are. Threats against arguments that for the last week have filled
American cartoonists, when anyone both- If we want to know why these lessons have the pages of every newspaper in the coun-
ers to make them, are toothless; there is no not been learned before now, the cartoon try. ...
mob of violent young Muslims in the jihad also gives us clues to the answer.
United States to carry them out. European Note that those who are supposed to help [T]he editors who have run the cartoons
do not believe that Muslims are evil infi-
writers and filmmakers, by contrast, are us learn those lessons—the left-leaning
dels who must either be converted or van-
already being murdered in the streets. The intellectuals and newspaper editors, the quished. They do not publish the offend-
first people to find themselves living under people who have traditionally posed as the ing cartoons in an effort to further some
the sword of a would-be Muslim caliphate brave defenders of free speech—have been religious or political vision; they do it gra-
are Europeans, not Americans. the first to collapse in abject submission to tuitously, almost accidentally. Concerned
Muslim sensibilities. The New York Times, only to stand up for an abstract princi-
The lesson here is not just that the Islamist for example, dismissed the cartoons as ple—free speech—they seize on whatever
ideology of dictatorship is a threat to “juvenile” and explained that refusing to content happens to come their way and use
Europe. It is also that the dictatorships publish even a single image of the cartoons it as an example of what the principle
should be protecting. The fact that for
themselves are a threat. The advocates of “seems a reasonable choice for news orga-
others the content may be life itself is
cynical European “realpolitik” deluded nizations that usually refrain from gratu- beside their point.
themselves into thinking that if they just itous assaults on religious symbols.”
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“This is itself a morality—the morality of a basis for laws against abortion and homo- support among Muslims:
withdrawal from morality in any strong, sexuality, and for the subordination of sci-
insistent form. It is certainly different from ence to religion, demanding that this be a In a wired world, there aren’t any inconse-
the morality of those for whom the Danish “nation under God” rather than a “nation quential actions, and everything is grist for
cartoons are blasphemy and monstrously the propagandists among the jihadists.
under Darwin.”
evil. And the difference, I think, is to the That doesn’t mean censorship, or even self-
credit of the Muslim protesters and to the censorship. Only a bit of reflection before
discredit of the liberal editors.” And so we have seen a few prominent con-
rushing off to start new battles which
servatives falter badly in the cartoon jihad. divert attention from those already under
For years, the left has told us that the Prominent neoconservative scion John way. There is a chasm of difference
foundation of freedom is subjectivism; if Podhoretz wrote a column in the New between serious commentary on the
you are never certain that you are right, York Post that sounds an awful lot like Islamic challenge facing Europe and the
you will never be certain enough to Stanley Fish’s column quoted above: West ... and crude, sweeping anti-Muslim
propaganda. It isn’t necessary to defend the
“impose” your views on others. But will
For many people, the way to grant latter in order to uphold and praise the
you be certain enough to defend your former.
Muslims the recognition they crave is to
mind against those who want to impose
patronize them—to give them nice little
their beliefs on you? If Fish is any indica- nods and winks and talk about what a nice The weakness of the conservatives is that
tion, the answer is “no.” Note how he religion they have. That kind of recogni- they think the essence of the West is our
bows with almost superstitious awe before tion is unsatisfying and condescending. religion, our “Judeo-Christian tradi-
the fanaticism of the Muslim mobs, while The impulse behind the original publica- tion”—rather than our Enlightenment
describing the old-fashioned liberals’ tion of the cartoons in Denmark last legacy of individual rights and unfettered
defense of free speech as hypocritical, September was to cut through the conde-
reason. Conservatives try to evade the
superficial, “condescending.” scension. They were literally provocative—
designed to provoke discussion about how clash between religious authority and free-
to deal with the phenomenon that Carsten dom of thought by claiming that religion
And now the “hate crimes” laws pioneered provides the moral basis for liberty. But
Juste, the editor of the newspaper that
by the left in the name of political correct- published them, called the “self-censorship the clash cannot be avoided, and conserva-
ness are being invoked by Muslims to sup- which rules large parts of the Western tives are forced to choose where they will
press publication of the Mohammed car- world.” draw the line: where respect for religious
toons by a Canadian newspaper. The prohibitions, in their view, takes prece-
intellectuals of the left, having built a rep- Well, as Juste and his staff have learned to dence over respect for the individual
utation as defenders of free speech by their sorrow, while some of that self-
mind. On this issue—involving a religion
striking a pose of defiance against innocu- censorship may be the result of cowardly
political correctness, some of it is clearly alien to American traditions—most con-
ous threats at home, have now become the servatives have had no problem drawing
due to simple prudence. Juste and his
leading advocates for self-imposed submis- the line in favor of freedom. But will they
underlings have been in grave physical
sion to the Muslim hordes abroad. danger for months, ever since the cartoons draw a different line when their own reli-
were published. And it would not be too gious dogmas are challenged?
Interestingly, intellectuals on the right much to say that they and the world would
have now become the loudest, most stri- have been better off if they had exercised a This is the final lesson of the cartoon
dent voices in defense of free speech, for little more self-protective caution in the jihad. The real issue at stake is not just
which they deserve our admiration. first place.
censorship versus freedom, but something
Blogger Michelle Malkin has waged a par- much deeper: the need to recognize the
ticularly effective crusade on this issue. Meanwhile, Hugh Hewitt—a much more real essence of the West. The distinctive
And she is not the only one. dedicated religious conservative—practi- power and vibrancy of our culture, the
cally squirms with discomfort at the idea source of our liberty, our happiness, and
But the right has its own contradictions, of someone criticizing religion. He echoes our unprecedented prosperity, is our
its own source of sympathy with the the idea that the Danish editors were “irre- Enlightenment tradition of regard for the
enemy. For years, conservative intellectuals sponsible” for printing the cartoons unfettered reasoning mind, left free to
have been demanding greater “sensitivity” because they could have predicted that it follow the evidence wherever it leads.
to “religious sensibilities”—at least, to the would “provoke” a violent reaction—but
religious sensibilities of Christians—and he adds a more pro-American gloss to it. And this controversy has given our minds
calling for a great role for religion in the He says that the cartoons were irresponsi- plenty of evidence to follow, and plenty of
“public square.” The have waged a long ble because the enemy will use them as fearless conclusions to draw. •
crusade to allow religion to serve as the propaganda to incite riots and try to gain
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In the name of parody, we’ve
taken quite a few liberties with
other people’s cartoons. To
give credit where credit is due:
The cartoon features four of
the original Danish
Mohammed cartoons pub-
lished in Jyllands-Posten. The
artists are (left to right): Claus
Seidel, Rasmus Sand Høyer,
Peder Bundgaard, and Kurt
Westergaard.
The cartoon pigs are (left to
right): “Olivia” by Ian
Falconer, “Miss Piggy” by Jim
Henson, “Porky Pig” by Bob
Clampett (Warner Bros.), and
“Piglet” by A. A. Milne and
Disney.
The original cartoon was in
full color.
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Continued from page 158 TIA: On your own blog, how did you many in the West and the silence of
Any self-imposed censorship about Islam respond to the “cartoon jihad”? “moderate” Muslims.
is suicidal.
AF: So far, we’ve created seven or eight TIA: All right, I have to ask: what’s the
That said, individually the cartoons vary cartoons on the subject, many of them deal with the pigs?
in quality as editorial cartoons, from sim- depicting John’s own Mohammed carica-
plistic to pointed—though I hasten to ture or those from the Danish cartoons. AF: Yes, we have used pigs a few times in
note that some of the cartoons were these cartoons. Well, Muslims consider
merely meant to be portraits of pigs “unclean” animals, and some
Mohammed, though nonetheless “blas- We’ve emphasized that Muslims have tried to impose their sensi-
phemous.” bility on non-Muslims. We figure if
the “cartoon jihad” is an Islamists are going to ban images of Piglet
The only cartoon I would single out is assault on free speech, [see cartoon on page 77], then we were
Kurt Westergaard’s “bomb turban.” It’s but we’ve covered other going to fight back with cartoon pigs.
perfectly iconic in its execution, and it’s
also provocative to those in the West who aspects as well, such as TIA: Have you received any death threats
say that associating Islam with terrorism is the complicity of many in or violent reaction to your cartoons on this
“bigoted” and “racist.” The knee-jerk issue?
“politically correct” reaction is to claim the
the West and the silence
cartoon is a smear against all Muslims. of “moderate” Muslims. AF: None. In fact, the only criticisms I’ve
Yet by directly linking the originator of seen of our Mohammed-related cartoons
Islam with a modern-day bomb, were from leftists. •
Westergaard has provoked a much-needed Obviously, as cartoonists, we’re in the
discussion about Islamic ideology and its unique position to answer the Islamists
use of force today, and hopefully about with still more cartoons. We’ve empha-
faith and force in general. The violent sized that the “cartoon jihad” is an assault
reaction by some Muslims to the Danish on free speech, but we’ve covered other
cartoons only proved his point. aspects as well, such as the complicity of
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Robert Tracinski, editor and publisher of We had already created a number of car- Hitler caricature so that when turned
The Intellectual Activist, further explained toons critical of Ahmadinejad (see pages upside down, Hitler becomes
the parallels to WWII: 82 and 110). But the Holocaust contest Ahmadinejad.
presented a unique opportunity to further
We can’t avoid this war, because Iran highlight his similarities to Hitler and pos- The fact that Hitler’s face is so well-
won’t let us avoid it. That is the real analo-
sibly get our message past censors and into known provided room to distort his fea-
gy to the 1930s. Hitler came to power
espousing the goal of German world domi- an Iranian newspaper. tures to fit Ahmadinejad’s, which is why
nation, openly promising to conquer Hitler is so stylized. Hitler’s caricature had
neighboring nations through military force In political discussions, Nazi comparisons to be recognizable enough to allay suspi-
and to persecute and murder Europe’s are grossly misused, particularly by the cions about a trick picture, while at the
Jews. He predicted that the free nations of “antiwar” left which has made an industry same time be a trick picture. Ahmadinejad
the world would be too weak—too morally of comparing President Bush to Hitler. suffered a few distortions, too, such as his
weak—to stand up to him, and European Such a comparison renders the Holocaust forehead and his left eye (no, that’s not
and American leaders spent the 1930s rein- meaningless, for whatever Bush’s faults, he meant to be an eye patch).
forcing that impression. So Hitler kept
is no more the next genocidal mass mur-
advancing—the militarization of the
Rhineland in 1936, the Spanish bombing derer of Jews than Cindy Sheehan is the (The “Never Again” type seen on the pre-
campaign in 1937, the annexation of next secretary of defense. vious page’s image was added later, my
Austria and the invasion of Czechoslovakia way of making the reversible caricature a
in 1938, the invasion of Poland in 1939— On the other hand, Ahmadinejad, the stand-alone graphic for use outside of the
until the West finally, belatedly decided Iranian mullahs, and their weekly chants contest. The type was of course not includ-
there was no alternative but war. of “Death to Israel” would have made ed in the final cartoon submitted to the
Hitler envious. Holocaust contest.)
That is what is playing out today. Iran’s
theocracy has chosen, as the nation’s new
president, a religious fanatic who believes During the Hezbollah/Israel war, leftists, A Hitler/Ahmadinejad comparison would
in the impending, apocalyptic triumph of Islamists, and even Ahmadinejad himself hopefully leave an impression on
Islam over the infidels. He openly pro- accused Israel of being Nazi-like. Such Westerners as well as dissidents in the
claims his desire to create an Iranian-led atrocious moral equivalence requires a Middle East. But for Islamists this wasn’t
Axis that will unite the Middle East in the massive evasion of reality, including the exactly an insult, knowing that some of
battle against America, and he proclaims fact that it is Iran’s Hezbollah terrorists them parade around with “God Bless
his desire to “wipe Israel off the map,” who goose step and salute like Nazis while Hitler” signs.
telling an audience of Muslim leaders that
openly fighting to destroy the Jewish state.
“the main solution” to the conflict in
Lebanon is “the elimination of the Zionist In studying the cartoons posted at the
regime.” (Perhaps this would be better Yet the answer is not to dogmatically contest Web site, I noticed that devil and
translated as Ahmadinejad’s “final solu- eschew Nazi analogies because of their Satan analogies were common, especially
tion” to the problem of Israel.)2 misuse, for that would only serve to under- when depicting “enemies” like Jews and
mine any lessons we should have learned Danes. And Islamists have long referred to
Ahmadinejad’s “final solution” is motivat- from history. For the reasons stated above, America as “The Great Satan” and to
ed by religious fanaticism, which he I chose to apply the Hitler comparison to Israel as “The Little Satan.” Even though
demonstrated during his September 2005 someone who is truly earning it. such demonization gets no traction in
UN address. Middle East commentator America (where devils are used for food
Daniel Pipes analyzed Ahmadinejad’s THE HIDDEN MESSAGE logos and sports mascots), I decided to
speech and his obsession with preparations But how does one make such a compari- include horns for the Islamic fundamen-
for an Islamic messiah, concluding: son and hide it in a cartoon? There may be talists.
a number of ways, but the idea I hit upon
The most dangerous leaders in modern was a reversible caricature. We’ve all seen THE TROJAN HORSE
history are those (such as Hitler) equipped
topsy-turvy drawings.4 In these inversions Hiding Ahmadinejad in a Hitler caricature
with a totalitarian ideology and a mystical
belief in their own mission. Mahmoud you see one face right-side up and then a was one thing. A completely separate chal-
Ahmadinejad fulfills both these criteria, as different face upside down, such as a lenge was to devise a cartoon that would
revealed by his UN comments.3 young man and an old man. feature the caricature and be competitive
in the contest. Early concepts had Hitler
Pipes noted that Ahmadinejad’s 2006 UN But could such an inversion be created and Ahmadinejad down-playing the
speech had more of the same messianism. using two famous people? My results are Holocaust, which, though it fit them both
at right. I designed and illustrated the and the contest, would have been a
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GROUND ZERO
GROUND ZERO
The 9/11 Memorial Battle Foundation, Debra saw first-hand what and we had to do it on many fronts. ...
By Allen Forkum was happening and sounded the alarm.
Inspired, Cox & Forkum joined the fight Your visual commentary did, with a few
In June 2005, Debra Burlingame wrote a along with many others. The cartoons we strokes of a pen, what no word processing
program could do in thousands of words:
Wall Street Journal editorial (see below) created are featured in this section.
strike at the heart of the issue, mocking
warning that plans for the Ground Zero those who so arrogantly arrogated unto
memorial had been taken over by people Eventually the the plans were withdrawn, themselves the task of defining ‘what 9/11
with a leftist agenda. Debra had a personal the battle was won. We were honored to means in a larger historical context’ and in
interest in 9/11. Her brother was Charles receive this letter from Debra: a way that was utterly disrespectful to the
F. “Chic” Burlingame III, pilot of the sacrifice of 3,000 of our fellow citizens, not
[T]hank you for your important contribu- to mention the truth.
American Airlines flight 77 that was
tion to our fight at Ground Zero to keep
crashed into the Pentagon. the International Freedom Center from
hijacking the 9/11 memorial at the World Our thanks to Debra for leading the
As a member of the board of directors of Trade Center. We knew that in order to charge. It remains to be seen if an appro-
the World Trade Center Memorial succeed we had to keep up the pressure priate memorial will ever be built. •
The Great Ground Zero Heist yearning to return to that day. Rather than Tolerance over the sunken graves of the
By Debra Burlingame a respectful tribute to our individual and USS Arizona.
collective loss, they will get a slanted histo-
This editorial originally appeared in The ry lesson, a didactic lecture on the mean- The public will be confused at first, and
Wall Street Journal on June 8, 2005, and is ing of liberty in a post-9/11 world. They then feel hoodwinked and betrayed.
reprinted with permission. will be served up a heaping foreign policy Where, they will ask, do we go to see the
discussion over the greater meaning of September 11 Memorial? The World
On Memorial Day weekend, three Abu Ghraib and what it portends for the Trade Center Memorial Foundation will
Marines from the 24th Expeditionary country and the rest of the world. have erected a building whose only con-
Unit who had been wounded in Iraq were nection to September 11 is a strained,
joined by 300 other service members for a The World Trade Center Memorial intellectual one. While the IFC is getting
wreath-laying ceremony at the empty pit Cultural Complex will be an imposing edi- 300,000 square feet of space to teach us
of Ground Zero. The broken pieces of the fice wedged in the place where the Twin how to think about liberty, the actual
Twin Towers have long ago been cleared Towers once stood. It will serve as the pri- Memorial Center on the opposite corner
away. There are no faded flags or hand- mary “gateway” to the underground area of the site will get a meager 50,000 square
painted signs of national unity, no simple where the names of the lost are chiseled feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of
tokens of remembrance. So why do they into concrete. The organizers of its princi- sight and underground. Most of the cher-
come? What do they hope to see? pal tenant, the International Freedom ished objects which were salvaged from
Center (IFC), have stated that they intend Ground Zero in those first traumatic
The World Trade Center Memorial will to take us on “a journey through the histo- months will never return to the site. There
break ground this year. When those ry of freedom”—but do not be fooled into is simply no room. But the International
Marines return in 2010, the year it is thinking that their idea of freedom is the Freedom Center will have ample space to
scheduled to open, no doubt they will same as that of those Marines. To the present us with exhibits about Chinese
expect to see the artifacts that bring those IFC’s organizers, it is not only history’s tri- dissidents and Chilean refugees. These are
memories to life. They’ll want a vantage umphs that illuminate, but also its failures. important subjects, but for somewhere—
point that allows them to take in the sheer The public will have come to see 9/11 but anywhere—else, not the site of the worst
scope of the destruction, to see the footage will be given a high-tech, multimedia tuto- attack on American soil in the history of
and the photographs and hear the personal rial about man’s inhumanity to man, from the republic.
stories of unbearable heartbreak and Native American genocide to the lynch-
unimaginable courage. They will want the ings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow More disturbing, the Lower Manhattan
memorial to take them back to who they South, from the Third Reich’s Final Development Corp. is handing over mil-
were on that brutal September morning. Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond. lions of federal dollars and the keys to that
This is a history all should know and learn, building to some of the very same people
Instead, they will get a memorial that but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground who consider the post-9/11 provisions of
stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the Zero is like creating a Museum of the Patriot Act more dangerous than the
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terrorists that they were enacted to appre- • Anthony Romero, executive director of on the “perfect platform” where the
hend—people whose inflammatory claims the ACLU, who is pushing IFC organizers domestic and foreign policy they despise
of a deliberate torture policy at for exhibits that showcase how civil liber- was born.
Guantanamo Bay are undermining this ties in this country have been curtailed
country’s efforts to foster freedom else- since September 11. Less welcome to the Freedom Center are
where in the world. the actual beneficiaries of that policy.
• Eric Foner, radical-left history professor According to The New York Times, early
The driving force behind the IFC is Tom at Columbia University who, even as the renderings of the center’s exhibit area cre-
Bernstein, the dynamic co-founder of the bodies were being pulled out of a smolder- ated by its Norwegian architectural firm
Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment ing Ground Zero, wrote, “I’m not sure depicted a large mural of an Iraqi voter.
Complex who made a fortune financing which is more frightening: the horror that That image was replaced by a photograph
Hollywood movies. But his capital ven- engulfed New York City or the apocalyp- of Martin Luther King and Lyndon
tures appear to have funded his true call- tic rhetoric emanating daily from the Johnson when the designs were made
ing, the pro bono work he has done his White House.” This is the same man who public. What does it mean that the “story
entire adult life—as an activist lawyer in participated in a “teach-in” at Columbia of humankind’s quest for freedom” does-
the human rights movement. He has been to protest the Iraq war, during which a n’t include the kind that is fought for with
a proud member of Human Rights First colleague exhorted students with, “The the blood and tears of patriots? It means, I
since it was founded—as the Lawyers only true heroes are those who find ways fear, that this is a freedom center which
Committee for Human Rights—27 years to defeat the US military,” and called for will not use the word “patriot” the way
ago, and has served as its president for the “a million Mogadishus.” The IFC website our Founding Fathers did.
last 12. has posted Mr. Foner’s statement warning
that future discussions should not be The so-called lessons of September 11
The public has a right to know that it was “overwhelmed” by the IFC’s location at should not be force-fed by ideologues
Mr. Bernstein’s organization, joined by the World Trade Center site itself. hoping to use the memorial site as nothing
the American Civil Liberties Union, that more than a powerful visual aid to pro-
filed a lawsuit three months ago against • George Soros, billionaire founder of mote their agenda. Instead of exhibits and
Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of detainees Open Society Institute, the nonprofit symposiums about Internationalism and
in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was Human foundation that helps fund Human Rights Global Policy we should hear the story of
Rights First that filed an amicus brief on First and is an early contributor to the the courageous young firefighter whose
behalf of alleged “dirty bomber” Jose IFC. Mr. Soros has stated that the pictures body, cut in half, was found with his legs
Padilla, an American citizen who the of Abu Ghraib “hit us the same way as the entwined around the body of a woman.
Justice Department believes is an al Qaeda terrorist attack itself.” Recovery personnel concluded that
recruit. It was Human Rights First that because of their positions, the young fire-
has called for a 9/11-style commission to While Gov. George Pataki, Mayor fighter was carrying her.
investigate the alleged torture of detainees, Michael Bloomberg and LMDC are
complete with budget authority, subpoena focusing their attention on the economic The people who visit Ground Zero in five
power and the ability to demand that wit- revival of lower Manhattan, there has been years will come because they want to pay
nesses testify under oath. no meaningful oversight with respect to their respects at the place where heroes
the “cash cow of Ground Zero.” died. They will come because they want to
In fact, the IFC’s list of those who are Meanwhile, the Freedom Center’s orga- remember what they saw that day, because
shaping or influencing the content and nizers are quickly lining up individuals, they want a personal connection, to touch
programming for their Ground Zero institutions and university provosts with the place that touched them, the place that
exhibit includes a who’s who of the this arrogant appeal: “The memorial to the rallied the nation and changed their lives
human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed victims will be the heart of the site, the forever. I would wager that, if given a
world: IFC will be the brain.” Indeed, they have choice, they would rather walk through
declared the World Trade Center that dusty hangar at JFK Airport where
• Michael Posner, executive director at Memorial the perfect “magnet” for the 1,000 World Trade Center artifacts are
Human Rights First who is leading the world’s “great leaders, thinkers and stored than be herded through the
worldwide “Stop Torture Now” campaign activists” to participate in lectures and International Freedom Center’s multi-
focused entirely on the US military. He symposiums that examine the “founda- million-dollar insult.
has stated that Mr. Rumsfeld’s refusal to tions of free and open societies.” Put less
resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scan- grandly, these activists and academics are Ground Zero has been stolen, right from
dal is “irresponsible and dishonorable.” salivating at the prospect of holding forth under our noses. How do we get it back? •
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COVERS
Illustrations for The Intellectual Activist magazine
and AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report newspapers
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The Looters
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Five Minutes to Midnight
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DRP Dissatisfaction
June 2006
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Learning from Others’
Mistakes
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By John Cox
CARICATURES
Abdullah II Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Neutral
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Bumpers
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Gasaconda
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Strictly Enforced
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Suburban Crude
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RoboCab
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Geezermobile
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Untiring
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Cowtalytic Converter
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RV Heaven
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Porta Potty
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Mixed Hail
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Model Behavior
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Clean Err
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MISCELLANEOUS
Projects for ourselves and others
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Vote Often
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Critical Mass
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98th Maintenance
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Hot Air
March 30, 2006
Charles Johnson at
Little Green Footballs
(www.littlegreenfootballs.com/
weblog) gives an annual award
to the person voted by his blog
readers to be the “idoitarian
of the year.” The “Fiskie” is
named after journalist
Robert Fisk. Previous winners
were Jimmy Carter and
Rachel Corrie.
The 2004 Fiskie went to
Michael Moore. The 2005
Fiskie went to Cindy Sheehan
(below).
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VW Alien
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The Ayn Rand Centenary
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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
We’ve included interviews in our previous cartoons, we used the fax machine, which cartoons. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to
books, but we wanted to try something a meant that you had to illustrate the car- think of ideas that are worth doing! But I
little different this time. Here you’ll find an toons in a certain manner. think we push the envelope fairly often in
interview between me and John. It’s based trying to get the best ideas into cartoons.
on the transcript of a phone conversation we John: Real simple, a real simple manner.
had on October 5, 2006. We tried to cover John: Regardless if I can do it or not.
issues that had not been broached in prior Allen: It was a style that reproduced well
interviews by asking inside questions, that is, through the fax machine. Basically we Allen: Yes, which, if there is any tension
questions that only we would know to ask. didn’t use shades of gray. In fact, we called in what we do ...
We freely edited this for the sake of clarity the first book “Black & White World”
and readability, even adding content where partly because we kind of prided ourselves John: [Laughs]
necessary. But we also tried to retain some of on that stark, black-and-white look.
the conversational tone. Allen: ... that’s probably why.
John: [Laughs] Exactly.
Allen: Let’s start off with a question I have John: Yeah.
for you. I know you like to paint, as well Allen: Now that you’re using the comput-
as do other forms of illustration. Can you er more, you add computer shading effects Allen: You have a phrase you use when I
describe what it is you like about cartoon- that allow for more subtlety. I wanted to send you an idea that you’re eager to draw.
ing in particular? ask you, how much do your painting skills You say the cartoon “hits right in your
inform your cartoon work now? wheelhouse.”
John: Oh yeah, big time!
John: I would say 100%. I don’t think I John: Exactly. Exactly.
Allen: In five words or less? would have the comfort level in using
Photoshop for different tonal values with- Allen: Can you elaborate on when an idea
John: [Laughs] Yeah, I discovered first- out the years of doing the fine art work. is in your wheelhouse? Or when it isn’t?
hand that fine art painting is much more Now granted, if I were a different kind of
personal. It’s not collaborative at all. In painter—let’s say I did squares and trian- John: I think the ones I like best have
fact, that’s my biggest distinction between gles, and I was really interested in flat stuff that I can make up. You know, if
commercial work and fine art. Fine art shapes—then I would probably bring there’s a three-eyed alien that no one’s
work is always just the artist himself, and something different to my cartoon work. I seen before, I can make that up. If it’s a
commercial work is almost always collabo- think my cartoon work is a direct reflec- spaceship, if it’s a creature coming out of
rative. So the fact that we’re collaborating tion of my dedication to realism and an ocean ... those are things that are just
on cartoons makes it very different. What depicting volume and shadow. All my pure fantasy. I love those. I’m not having
I like the most about fine art is that it’s all interest in that has bled into the cartoon to look at reference. When I’m having to
me, and I can sit there and take all the work. So yeah, I think that that makes a draw the Statue of Liberty or the US
advantages and disadvantages of huge difference. Capitol building or even my Newsmaker
it being my own work. When it gets Caricatures [page 187], I’m having to be
bought, and occasionally it does, I get I know one of the things that I have kind of slavish to my reference, because
great satisfaction knowing that my ideas always been interested in, and I still love that’s part of the context of the cartoon. If
are out of my head and actually hanging talking about, is how much of me you you draw the US Capitol wrong, that
on someone’s wall. have to take into account in forming your ruins the joke. So I think what I try to do
ideas. We’ve had these conversations many with the realistic stuff is make sure my ref-
The biggest advantage of the cartoon work times, where I kind of complain, “Would erence is good, and I try to stay true to it.
is that the audience is involved immediate- you please come up with ideas that I’m My “wheelhouse” is when I get to make
ly. I never get that from the fine art. Even good at drawing.” As opposed to just the stuff up.
when I would fantasize the most outra- ideas that you’re interested in. So I’d like
geous scenarios of being a popular painter, to hear about that occasional conflict Allen: Very few of our cartoons probably
I just wouldn’t have an audience like this. between the ideas you’re really interested hit right in your wheelhouse.
We’re reaching about 8,000 people a day, in and the stuff that I’m willing to draw.
and I would never, ever get that in a John: Exactly. I’ve always given you full
gallery. Allen: Right! Well, yeah, that conflict is credit for expanding my palette, as it were.
definitely there. Sometimes you’re not in I’m not talking about colors but my palette
Allen: When we first started doing the the mood to draw technically challenging of things to get across. My sketchbook
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John: I’m very interested in highly John: Another good example is the most Allen: It’s exactly the opposite of my
detailed work, so the fact that we have this recent cartoon of Bill Clinton rewriting approach, but it can also can be helpful,
aesthetic in common probably makes a The Clinton Legacy book [page 150]. Now because sometimes approaching a topic
huge difference. I’ve done a few goofy caricatures of him, from a different perspective than you’re
but that would not have worked in that used to can lead to new ideas. That pro-
Allen: Let me ask you something. I can cartoon. It needed a certain sinister cess lends itself really well to improving a
look at one of your cartoons of Bush from quality. cartoon once we’ve started. But when
2001 and look at a recent one, and they starting from scratch ...
are not radically different, which surprises Allen: So the differences in the caricatures
me. I expected to see a huge difference, reflect differences in the intents of the car- John: Do you have an example of that?
and that’s because I know you’ve drawn toons.
him differently over the last five years. Allen: Let me think. ... Well, one example
Why have you done that? John: Exactly. ... You know, I’d like to can be seen in your sketchbook. At one
return to something we touched on earlier. point in time you mentioned to me that
John: Done what? Change his look? you were sketching a very large, rotund,
Allen: Sure. menacing Mother Nature [page 229]. You
Allen: Yeah. just threw that out as something you’d like
John: I’d like to hear how you think our to draw, and of course I had nothing for
John: I think one of the things that you approaches are different. that.
bring to it with your approach, or at least
your opinion of Bush, is that there’s a Allen: Well, referring back to what you John: [Laughs] I think it was during the
goofy aspect to him and there’s a serious said about your sketchbook, that really hurricane days, right?
aspect. Sometimes he’s clownish. embodies our different approaches to
Sometimes he’s heroic. I think those dif- coming up with editorial cartoons. I find Allen: Yes, and you were probably vibing
ferent characteristics have to have different it funny sometimes that when we’re work- off that news. But I was unable to apply
kinds of Bushes. I take a certain pride in ing on a new idea from scratch, you’ll that concept to anything I was working on
the fact that when I draw George Bush, I often have funny visuals or funny situa- at that moment, politics-wise. However,
have a three or four different ones. tions, but they have absolutely nothing to because you’d thrown it out there, we
do ... ended up using it in a Buster McNutt gag
One of the things that I discovered, and cartoon, the one about “mixed hail” [page
didn’t really think of it as I was doing it, John: [Laughs] 202].
was the idea that there are different ways
to do these caricatures, where you convey Allen: ... with politics or with the culture John: Oh, I remember that one.
different facets of the person, which is all or anything specific. It’s just a funny thing.
beyond just capturing a likeness. I think Allen: Which turned out really well. And
you can say the same thing about my John: That’s me. later we used the concept again for a
Ahmadinejad drawings. I’ve drawn him Hurricane Wilma cartoon [page 81]. So
goofy, and I’ve drawn him scary. I’ve done Allen: A beached whale and a guy talking. that shows how coming up with random-
that with Bin Laden, too. A leaping lion. Frankly, I find that but-interesting visuals can be helpful.
approach frustrating.
Allen: Right. John: But that’s exactly what you don’t
John: Oh, yeah. do. [Laughs]
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Allen: Right. I generally don’t think in we’re trying to produce a cartoon. vacation or to take a long weekend, the
those terms. I start with the news, what I prospect of putting on the hip waders and
don’t like about it, and what I want to say. John: It must be frustrating for you. Is getting back in is not pleasant. If there’s
I have to figure out the best way to make that the hardest part of your end of it? anything that threatens my ability to keep
that point, whether it’s an analogy, or a doing this, it’s that—having to stay in the
situation, or an absurdity, or— Allen: The collaboration? No. I mean, day-to-day muck of politics.
without our division of labor, we simply
John: Which is something I never do. couldn’t produce these cartoons, and I’m John: I know what you mean.
proud of what we’ve done as a team.
Allen: Right. Allen: If I ever stop editorial cartooning,
John: Then what is the hardest part? that will probably be why.
John: I never do that. From the art point
of view, I always think of what would be Allen: Well, you’ve heard me complain John: You know, we’ve tried really hard to
fun to draw, then I try to find a story that over the years, so this is nothing new for mix in the lighter stuff, because I think
fits it! [Laughs] you. But one thing that makes my end dif- that’s part of the just being healthy.
ficult is the repetitiveness of the news.
Allen: [Laughs] Look at our Iran cartoons, which span five Allen: It is.
years, and they pretty much cover the
John: Try that for a day and see where same issues over and over and over again. John: And if you really wanted to do
that will get you. “Let’s see, I have a tutu, Iran’s open desire to destroy America. Our heavy stuff every day, you could. There’s
a whale, and a cheeseburger. Now if I can government’s seeming lack of concern. heavy stuff in the news every single day.
find a story with those three elements, I’m The non-stop dithering with the UN. All But I think you have to maintain a bal-
golden!” My sketchbooks are full of that of that is not only frustrating from an idea ance of the light, the heavy, the whimsical,
sort of thing. standpoint but also from a human-being and the not so heavy. I think the variety
standpoint. has a lot to do with longevity.
Allen: Yeah, that’s not good for editorial
cartoons. You can’t think, “Okay, how is John: Oh, yeah. Exactly. Just being a con- Allen: We also get some relief from our
George Bush like a cheeseburger?” cerned citizen and having to read about it Buster McNutt gag cartoons [page 195]
every single day is frustrating. once a month.
John: Exactly. Exactly. And I’d be willing
to bet that’s a trap a lot of cartoonist fall Allen: Right. Much less having to come John: Right.
into, looking for news to fit their ideas. up with something new to say about it.
That’s a hard way to go. And reviewing our cartoons, as I did for Allen: That’s always fun, though it proba-
this book, you see how the same topics bly doesn’t sound like it from this conver-
Allen: I suspect that situation is unique to keep coming up time and again. That is sation. [Laughs]
us, because we’re doing this as a partner- frustrating.
ship. A single person would be working John: [Laughs] Yes, they are fun. Hey,
out those conflicts in his own head and The other thing I find difficult as a writer let’s do more of those!
then drawing whatever he wants to draw. is having to stay immersed in the daily
You and I, on the other hand, have to news. I’ve often described it as having to Allen: If you look at those cartoons, you
work together as a team, and our different work in a sewer. And when you get out of can tell that we are not having to worry
approaches come to the surface when it, and you go away from it, say, on a about whether or not Kim Jong Il is going
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to drop a nuke on somebody. It’s a nice truth. The great thing about Photoshop is Allen: Even though in the final, I wished
break. that, even after I ink the hell out of some- the wave had been a little more ominous.
thing, there is always a chance to tweak it.
John: Let’s discuss a little more about how The fact that you still have that artistic John: Didn’t we steal that wave from
we work together. Do prefer doing pencil sense, despite your crude approach to your another piece that we did?
sketches of your ideas or describing them pencil sketches, gives you the ability to
verbally to me? You’re really good at both. figure out how it will look at the end. I’ve Allen: Yeah, the al-Zarqawi cartoon, “Cast
always appreciated that. Way” [page 80].
Allen: I prefer pencils, even though I
know that poses challenges to you. Allen: And that works both ways. It’s John: He was confronting a giant wave of
never been as clear cut as “I write; you ballots.
John: Big time. [Laughs] draw.” We have a synergistic partnership.
I will often key off what you’ve done. You Allen: I liked the relative size of the wave
Allen: I try to solve as many of the visual always send me pencil sketches that take on that cartoon better than the Iran one.
problems as I can in the pencil sketch, to the idea to a higher level. Always. And that
hand you as complete an idea as I can. will often inspire more ideas that can be John: But scale was problematic on the
added into the cartoon to improve it. And Iran one because we had more objects—a
John: But sometimes you’re really, really sometimes you improve the idea itself. boat and two characters. Bush had to be
wrong. [Laughs] I’ll have to to fix some- recognizable.
thing that you didn’t even bother trying to John: I’ll tell you a good example of
solve. that—the recent Iran cartoon with Bush Allen: Right. It came out great, though. I
and the donkey in the boat [page 151]. loved how you handled the water. The
Allen: But that’s your job! Homer painting inspired all that.
Allen: Yep.
John: Some of your ideas aren’t even John: I think that’s a part of it, too, the
drawable! John: Now your pencil rough on that one idea that our ideas or inspirations can
was basically a simple drawing of a little come from our fine art background.
Allen: True. But sometimes I just hit the boat, Bush, and a donkey—and the dia-
limit of your drawing abilities or interests. logue, of course. And you had this pipe Allen: Absolutely.
thing dumping all kinds of water onto the
John: That’s true, too. boat. Now I could probably draw the heck John: I can think of three or four cartoons
out of a pipe in the water, but the cartoon off the top of my head that had a lot to do
Allen: I’m relying on your abilities to lacked something. with mimicking famous paintings.
draw certain things or to grasp a concept.
Sometimes you get it and can draw it. Artistically, my favorite cartoons have Allen: Like the cover, which is based on a
Other times you don’t get it and can’t or three or four planes of depth. At least a Howard Pyle illustration. We do that
don’t want to draw it. And sometimes I foreground, a mid-ground, and a back- because they did such a great job of pre-
just come up with stinker ideas. But we’ve ground. I’m always trying to bring that senting a situation, and hopefully we’re
gotten pretty good at working through depth to our cartoons. So in working on using it in a different but respectful
those problems. this cartoon, I thought of a Winslow manner. That’s certainly our intention.
Homer painting called “The Gulf
John: I get asked quite a bit about how Stream.” I wanted you to look at. So you John: Well, I think like anything, those
much of the drawing do you do and how Googled it and what happened? works of art are in the world, and we use
much of the writing do I do. What people everything as inspiration for ideas. So as
don’t know is how much drawing you Allen: Well, right away I liked the broken long as this great art is out there, I think it
actually do to help me along. In fact, I’d boat and ocean setting. They added some would be silly to ignore it. You know the
say a good chunk of the cartoons, how drama. But the big breakthrough was idea that you can respond to a Howard
they actually end up looking, has lots do using a wave instead of a pipe. And we Pyle illustration, you can respond to a
with the little details of things that I didn’t likely wouldn’t have reached that idea Michelangelo sculpture, you can respond
think of, and I’m always open to that. The without looking at the painting and look- to a Rockwell illustration, and you can use
idea that I have it all figured out, and I ink ing at the idea from other angles. them. I think it makes cartooning that
it all and that’s the way it’s going to be— much more entertaining. •
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INDEX
9/11 (see September 11, 2001) bird flu 77, 88 conspiracy theorists 146, 148 Fish, Stanley 160
98th Maintenance Company 208 black gangs 79 creationism 75 Fiskie Awards 211
Blair, Tony 5, 44, 57, 65, 92, Crescent of Embrace 178 Fitzgerald, Patrick 83
AARP (American Association of 130 Crittenden, Jules 141 flag burning 56
Retired Persons) 20 Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux 71, Cuba 118, 137 Flight 93 146, 178
Abbas, Mahmoud 17, 19, 44, 183 Florida Jewish News vii
154 Blix, Hans 111 Daily Telegraph 48 flying monkeys 31
Abdullah II 188 bloggers 28, 37, 212 Darth Vader 2, 47 Foley, Mark 152
Abu Ghraib 123, 178 Blogalicious 209 Dateline NBC 112 France 5, 29, 43, 44, 51, 65, 84,
ACLU (American Civil Liberties BlogNashville 194 Day by Day 206–207 85, 92, 113, 121
Union) 66, 141, 142, 176 Bolton, John 40, 47, 91, 189 Dean, Howard 25, 190 Franklin, Ben 130
Adams, Scott 207 Bono 93 DeLay, Tom 39, 75, 97 free speech vii, 158, 159,
Afghanistan 45, 109 Borders Books 166 Democratic National 161–165
AFL-CIO 62 Boxer, Barbara 21 Committee 25 free trade (see capitalism)
Africa 54, 57, 75 Bradley, Hugh 171 Democrats 2, 13, 18, 24, 25, 43, Frier, Avi vii
The Ahmadinejad Code vii, 168 Brook, Yaron 133, 155 47, 49, 58, 59, 62, 71, 73, 83, Fuseli, Henry (“The
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 56, Brown, Mike 73 85, 86, 87, 95, 109, 110, 146, Nightmare”) 31
74, 82, 88, 92, 99, 102, 110, Brzezinski, Piotr C. 116 147, 151, 152, 156, 182, 207,
111, 114, 117, 118, 121, 123, Bundgaard, Peder 164 212 G8 54, 57
129, 133, 138, 142, 146, 147, Burlingame, Debra 174 Denmark 158 Gaddafi, Muammar 190
149, 152, 155, 168–171, 184, burqa 63, 108, 144, 161 Department of Homeland Galloway, George 210
188 Bush, George W. 3, 4, 10, 13, Security 46, 104 Ganji, Akbar 60
Air America 64 20, 21, 24, 29, 35, 40, 43, 50, Dilbert 207 Gaza Strip 65, 67, 69, 86
Al Qaeda vi, 45, 93, 98, 117, 62, 65, 75, 83, 84, 86, 87, 92, Disney 164 Geneva Conventions 134
136 103, 109, 118, 128, 129, 133, Dolat, Ardeshir 173 George, Charles Philip Arthur
al-Sadr, Muqtada vi, 147, 152, 138, 146, 147, 151, 155, 183, donkey (see Democrats) 191
188 218, 219, 228 dove 26, 65 Germany 5, 44, 65, 121
Al-Sudayyis, Abd Al-Rahman 61 drug enforcement 52 Ghate, Onkar 115, 168, 214
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab 22, 45, CAIR (Council on American- Durbin, Dick 54 Gitmo (see Guantanamo Bay)
51, 78, 80, 125 Islamic Relations) 107, 146 Dutch (see Netherlands) Glick, Caroline 119
al-Zawahiri, Ayman 136 Canada 31, 53, 89, 100, 124 global warming 16, 90, 93, 126
Alito, Samuel 83, 98 Canseco, Jose 27 Earth Day 42, 115 Google 101
American Compass 194 capitalism 54, 84 Easter Bunny 94 GOP (see Republicans)
American Jewish Press Carter, Jimmy 29, 101, 104 economies of scale 94 Gore, Al 2, 109, 116, 126
Association vii cartoon jihad vii, 158 Egeland, Jan 135 gorilla in tutu 212, 217
Anna, Kofi 4, 8, 16, 39, 155 Castro, Fidel 118, 137, 189 Eiffel Tower 84 government dependency 144
anti-immigration 120, 132 caveman 19 ElBaradei, Mohammed 11, 78, government spending 75, 111,
antiwar protester 36, 60, 66, 76, Chavez, Hugo 84, 89, 118, 149, 97 130
78, 81, 108, 113, 127, 135, 187 elephant (see Republicans) Greenspan, Alan 5, 183
170 Chertoff, Michael 189 eminent domain 55, 91, 130 Grim Reaper 28
ANWR (Arctic National China 35, 41, 43, 87, 91, 99, England 5, 44, 57, 65, 77, 92, Ground Zero vi, vii, 174–179
Wildlife Refuge) 36, 85 101 121, 130 Guantanamo Bay vi, 8, 47, 54
April Fools’ Day 212 church and state 131, 144 environmentalism 9, 16, 42, 68,
Arafat, Yasser 10, 44, 171 Churchill, Ward 35 85, 90, 115, 116, 126 Haditha 123
Arc de Triomphe 85 CBS (see Dan Rather) Epstein, Alex 50, 55, 115 Hajj, Adnan 138
Armstrong, Eugene 125 Cheney, Dick 103, 147 EU (European Union) 44, 51, Halloween 82, 94, 156
Assad, Bashar 28, 30, 53, 147 Chicago Sun-Times 26 65, 76, 100, 155 Hamas 26, 44, 65, 67, 69, 101,
assimilation 112, 116 Chirac, Jacques 5, 29, 43, 44, 104, 114, 119, 127, 129, 131,
AutoGraphic’s Automotive Report 51, 65, 85, 92, 113, 133, 139, Falconer, Ian 164 143, 150, 154
vii, 185–186, 196–204 141, 155, 190 Fallaci, Oriana 210 Hamilton, Alexander 193
avian flu (see bird flu) Christmas 13, 94, 196 Fallujah 2, 7 Hamodia vii
Ayn Rand Institute 50, 55, 75, Clampett, Bob 164 Fatah 19, 150, 154 Hamshahri 168
94, 115, 133, 155, 168, 214 Clark, Ramsey 94, 210 FBI 122 Harper, Stephen 100
Clinton, Bill 150, 190 FDNY (New York City Fire Harris, Katherine 144
Bennish, Jay 106 Clinton, Hillary 99 Department) 72 Harvard University 145
Berg, Nick Jr. 125 CNN 25, 161, 163 FEC (Federal Election Hastert, Dennis 122
Bernstein, Andrew 54 compassionate conservatism 75 Commission) 37 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 193
Bernstein, Tom 176 Congress 37, 46 FEMA (Federal Emergency Hayden, Michael 191
Bin Laden, Osama 147, 152 conservatives 162 Management Agency) 71, 73 Hensley, Jack 125
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Henson, Jim 164 Jefferson, Thomas 130 Marines 123, 125, 135 Olivia 164
Hewitt, Hugh 123, 162 Jefferson, William 122 Marshall, Paul 48 Olmert, Ehud 140
Hezbollah 34, 132–135, Jesus 165 Martin, Paul 31, 89 OPEC (Organization of the
137–141, 143, 147 jihad 124, 128, 136 mass graves in Iraq 94 Petroleum Exporting
Hinchey, Maurice 31 Jihad Watch (see Robert McCain-Feingold 37 Countries) 36
Hitchens, Christopher 76 Spencer) McGwire, Mark 27 Operation Murambatsvina 63
Hitler, Adolf 60, 169–172, 175 Johnson, Charles vii, 18, 31, McKinney, Cynthia 192 Oscars 32, 105
Highway bill 75 138, 211 Mecca 61
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan 120 Jordan, Eason 25 media (NEC) 3, 28, 64, 74, 93, Pakistan 98, 105
Holcberg, David 50 Jyllands-Posten 164, 168 127 Palestinian Authority 10, 15, 17,
Holocaust vii, 92, 102, 168, 169, Medicare 75 19, 24, 26, 44, 58, 86, 127
175 Karimov, Islam 48 memogate (see Dan Rather) Palestinian terrorists (NEC) 91,
homosexuality 108 Karzai, Hamid 109 Memorial Day 50, 122 124, 129
Hot Air 210 Katrina 70, 71, 75 MEMRI 61 Paris 84, 85
Høyer, Rasmus Sand 164 Kelo v. New London 55, 91 Michelangelo (“Creation of Pelosi, Nancy 122
Hu Jintao 43, 99, 153 Kennedy, Edward 98 Adam”) 75 Penn, Sean 53
Hussein, Saddam 12, 24, 53, 80, Kerry, John 6, 21, 146 Miniter, Brendan 75 Photoshop 138, 216
86, 94, 160, 191 Khamenei, Ali 5, 28, 44, 46, 53, Miss Piggy 164 Piglet 77, 164, 166
55, 65, 123, 147 Mohammed 158, 163, 164, 165 Pipes, Daniel 107, 149, 170
IAEA (International Atomic Khatami, Muhammad 9, 145 moonbat 60, 68, 146 Plame, Valerie 59
Energy Agency) 11, 78, 97, Khomeini, Ayatollah 158, 168 Moore, Michael 13, 95, 211 Plamegame 59
100, 102 Kim Jong Il 46, 53, 130, 152, Morales, Evo 192 plantation 99
IFC (International Freedom 153 Moses 165 PLO (Palestine Liberation
Center) vi, vii, 174–179 Kim Sun-Il 125 Mother Nature 202, 218, 229 Organization) 24, 40
immigration 110, 112, 116, 120, King Kong 92 Moussaoui, Zacarias 117 Pluto 143
132 King, Martin Luther Jr. 175 MoveOn.org 60 Podhoretz, John 162
Independence Day 57, 130 Kissinger, Henry 184 Mugabe, Robert 38, 49, 63 Pol Pot 54
India 105 Koizumi, Junichiro 130, 192 Muir, Chris 194, 206–207 Pope Benedict XVI 133, 188
The Intellectual Activist (also see Krauthammer, Charles 17, 105, mullahs 90 Pope John Paul II 32, 41, 182
Robert Tracinski) 182–184 110, 137 multiculturalism 61, 85, 128 Popular Mechanics 148
intelligent design theory 75 Kurd 67 Murtha, John 127 pork barrel spending 75, 111
International Red Cross 8 Kyoto Treaty 16 Muslim 142, 148, 161 Porky Pig 164
Internet 76 poverty 20, 54, 57, 75
interrogation 54 labor unions 62 Nagin, Ray 71, 144, 183 Powell, Colin 3
Investor’s Business Daily vii, 33, LaBov & Beyond 213 NASCAR 112 price gouging 115
64, 81 Ladeen, Michael 55 Nasrallah, Hassan 135, 139, profiling 142
Iran 5, 9, 24, 28, 44, 46, 53, 55, Lady Justice 39 140, 147 Project Valour-IT 208
56, 65, 74, 78, 79, 82, 88, 90, Lady Liberty (see Statue of National Post vii Putin, Vladimir 30, 96, 99, 133,
92, 93, 99, 100, 106–108, Liberty) National Review 48 192
110, 111, 113, 114, 117, 118, The Lancet 153 Nazis 54, 79, 85, 106, 135, 169, Pyle, Howard (“Walking The
121, 123, 126, 129, 133, 138, Lebanon 30, 34, 134, 135, 137, 170, 175 Plank”) 163
142, 146, 147, 149, 151, 152, 138, 140 NBC 112
155, 184 Lee, Robert E. 193 Neo vii Qana 137, 138
Iran Press News 173 Libby, Lewis “Scooter” 83 neo-Nazis 79 Qatar 52
Iraq 2, 7, 15, 22, 23, 36, 51, 53, Libertad Digital vii Netanya Mall 58
63, 64, 67, 69, 74, 79–81, 86, Lieberman, Joe 192 Netanyahu, Benjamin 65 racism 79, 112
87, 94, 95, 106, 151, 153, Limbaugh, Rush 64 Netherlands 51, 120 Rahmatullah, Sayed Hashemi
164 Little Green Footballs (see New Orleans 70, 71, 144 106
Islamic Jihad 114 Charles Johnson) New York City 92, 174–179 Rand, Ayn 214
Islamism 84, 120, 147, 159, 163, Locke, Edwin A. 94 The New York Times 93, 128, Rasmussen, Anders Fogh 160
179 Lockitch, Keith 75 160, 177 Rather, Dan 6, 18
Israel 19, 26, 40, 58, 65, 67, 69, London bombings 57 Newsweek 47, 48 recycling 116, 126
86, 88, 91, 92, 97, 114, 119, London terror plot 139 NHL (National Hockey League) Rehnquist, William H. 71
124, 129, 132–134, 136, 139, Lott, Trent 111 59 Republicans 20, 37, 38, 71, 73,
140, 150, 169, 170 Nobel Peace Prize 78, 88 75, 83, 85, 110, 156, 182,
Italian Red Cross 69 mad cow disease 107 North Korea 46, 53, 130, 152 207, 212
Malkin, Michelle vii, 112, 161, NSA (National Security Agency) Reynolds, Glenn 47, 194
Jackson, Michael 191 210 119, 141 Rice, Condoleezza 4, 21, 23, 63,
Japan 41, 130 marijuana 52 86, 117, 118, 139, 154, 160
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