http://www.comicstrippolitics.com An Objective Look at American Politics As Seen In the Funny Pages Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:16:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ziggy - 04.20.2007 Ziggy isn't the first place I'd look to find political commentary, but sure enough, here it is. Usually, Ziggy's the one taking the brunt of all the misfortunes life dishes out. In this case, it's the station manager who dared to give his opinion on television getting put ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=19 Cathy - 04.13.2007 Today is tax day, and unless you've waited until the absolute last minute to file, you've probably heard of the Telephone Excise Tax, and are aware that you'll be getting a refund for the taxes levied from March 2003 to July 2006. You may want to be ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=18 Prickly City - 4.12.2007 - 4.13.2007 " It's hard to embrace something when you don't know where it stands." I would say that is a true statement, but I don't understand why it would be applicable in this context. Why would anyone want to embrace a specific political ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=17 Non Sequitur - 04.09.2007 This comic is pretty timely, since ComicStripPolitics.com has just joined the RTBA Coalition. More on that in a minute. I know that these black and white strips can be hard to read after I shrink them to fit on the screen, so I'll recap what it ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=16 Mallard Fillmore - 04.09.2007 Today's Mallard Fillmore cites a vague statistic without any source to back it up. I suppose that's better than citing a source that has nothing to do with the information he's presenting, which he tends to do, but either way, I'm not sure I believe that ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=15 Mallard Fillmore - 04.04.2007 I don't know of any "Big Solar Energy Companies", although they may exist. Today's topic is simply about companies profiting from legislation. It's easy to hate the energy companies. What they do has a direct effect on all of us in the price of gasoline. ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=14 Doonesbury - 04.02.2007 Last Fall, the Democrats won an surprising number of open seats in Congress, the Senate, and Governorships across the country. Most of the candidate's platform was nothing more than "I'm not a Republican". When prodded to give some sort of ideas, most talked about how the ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=13 Mallard Fillmore - 03.29.07 Yesterday's Mallard Fillmore reminds me of those news reports and comic strips that say something like "Only 12% of high school seniors could point to Afghanistan on a map". These kind of stats are often combined with the number who could rattle of the most recent ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=12 B.C. - 03.29.2007 Making fun of political correctness is very easy to do, but I don't think that's the point of this particular strip. B.C. sometimes stumbles over their punchlines, so I'm not completely sure if Hart is trying to say that political correctness is stupid or that politicians are ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=11 I don't think I'd believe it myself it I hadn't heard it with my own ears. I was working in my home office yesterday, and my wife came down with a message. Jessica Brown from Congressman Tom Cole's office had called, and apparently, he wanted to give me ... http://www.comicstrippolitics.com/?p=10