Ben Sargent, Austin American-Statesman, November 11, 2012
Ben Sargent on the Presidential election, 2012
November 15, 2012
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Ben Sargent: “Are you better off . . . ?”
September 14, 2012Pulitzer Prize winner, and retired (drat it!), Ben Sargent, in the Austin American-Statesman, September 9, 2012:
Ben Sargent, Austin American-Statesman, September 9, 2012
It could be a dangerous question for a Republican to ask; voters might actually remember four years ago.
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The melting away of climate denialism?
August 2, 2012
Ben Sargent, Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, July 24, 2012
If only it were true that heat, weather, or any other data or information, could cause global warming denialism to melt away . . .
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Ben Sargent gets to the truth on voter identification litigation . . .
July 29, 2012
As usual, Ben Sargent can help but blab the truth on voter identification and voter fraud. From one of America’s great newspapers, the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman:
Ben Sargent in the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, July 16, 2012 (Go Comics syndication)
More, earlier at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub:
- “Voter ID follies in Pennsylvania”
- “51 years they’ve pursued this woman who marched with Martin Luther King . . .”
- “Can you help Ruthelle keep her right to vote?”
- “Texas primary . . . voter ID law not applied”
Other Resources:
- Pa. Won’t Use Voter Fraud Argument At Hearing Over ID Law (npr.org)
- Legal Battles Erupt Over Tough Voter ID Laws (nytimes.com)
- California Republicans to Push Voter ID Measure in Quest to Completely Marginalize Party (obrag.org)
- Feds investigating Pa. voter ID law (politico.com)
- State ID badges will need to be modified for voter identification use (pennlive.com)
- Pennsylvania Voter Law Is ‘Harassment,’ Lawyer Says (bloomberg.com)
- Ms. Viviette Applewhite, 93 Year Old Black Woman, Fight GOP Voter Suppression In Pennsylvania (theobamacrat.com)
- Pennsylvania admits it: no voter fraud problem – Washington Post (blog) (washingtonpost.com)
- Pennsylvania stipulates no voter fraud in the state – ACLU press release
- Texas Tribune on Texas’s difficulty having the state comply with voter ID laws
- 86-year-old Ohio veteran denied right to vote; state won’t recognize VA identification cards
- Salon: Florida representative claims GOP presses voter ID laws to suppress voter turnout in deposition
- Brennan Center for Justice study on voter fraud and voter ID laws
- Houston Chronicle story quoting GOP officials as working to suppress voter turnout
- Soviet-style, Catch-22 in Mississippi voter identification procedures
- Voter identification procedures quash youth vote in New Mexico
- Déjà Vu in Texas Voter-ID Fight (theroot.com)
- Rick Perry Accuses Attorney General Holder Of Intentionally Inciting Racial Tensions (thinkprogress.org)
- Déjà Vu in Texas Voter-ID Fight (theroot.com)
- Rick Perry Accuses Attorney General Holder Of Intentionally Inciting Racial Tensions (thinkprogress.org)
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Mitt’s economic policy: Hair of the dog
July 7, 2012As is often the case, Ben Sargent makes vague things crystal clear, in this case, Romney’s economic program:
Ben Sargent, in the Austin American-Statesman, May 17, 2012
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Republicans running (down!) government sorta like a business
July 28, 2011Ben Sargent, the retired genius cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman got it just about right, I figure:
Ben Sargent, in the Austin American-Statesman, Sunday April 3, 2011
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Education board shames Texas: Ben Sargent and Texas education follies, part B
March 31, 2010Ben Sargent, Austin American-Statesman (GoComics) March 17, 2010
(I first saw a Ben Sargent cartoon published in the Daily Utah Chronicle in about 1974. 35 years of great stuff from that guy. He officially retired from the Austin American-Statesman in 2009, running one cartoon a week now.)
Tip of the old scrub brush, again, to Steven Schafersman and What Would Jack Do.
Also note this January cartoon from Sargent:
Texas State Board of Education social studies curricula - Ben Sargent, Austin American-Statesman, January 24, 2010
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Putting the Tea Parties into the history books
April 24, 2009Ghost in the Machine has the story, really, “U.S. History for Dummies.” Well worth clicking over to read it in full.
But I also want to call attention to this brilliant graphic — a sort of photographic political cartoon, and it’s quietly, subtly, savage:
What things in this photograph were paid for by taxes?
Oh, there are a couple of inaccuracies — the phone lines were probably paid for by the telephone company, but eminent domain was used to get the easements in many cases. (Who did the photo and the captioning? Anyone know?)
Ben Sargent was a little less subtle, in the Austin American-Statesman, using that Oliver Wendell Holmes quote we looked at some time ago.
Ben Sargent, Austin American-Statesman, copyright 2009
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 