Tom Toles: February 13, 2011 - February 19, 2011

Hard choices

*** Friday rant: Hot money edition Here's some actual climate data for you. Human activity causes bad rain events. This data point will have zero effect on the climate change deniers' point of view, however, because they have special...

By Tom Toles  | February 18, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (66)
Categories:  DC, Metro  
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"Charge! (it)"

*** Da Doo Ron Ron Okay, I'm calling it. On the same authority that the Wizard of Oz cited, the Universitatus Committeeatum e pluribus unum, I'm officially declaring the Reagan Era at a close. I think we can all...

By Tom Toles  | February 17, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (51)
Categories:  Congress, Economy and jobs, GOP  
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Blind Spot

*** Budget summary Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a great game of Budget Chicken. Chicken is the game where two cars race toward the edge of a cliff and the first one to hit the brakes loses. In...

By Tom Toles  | February 16, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (24)
Categories:  Economy and jobs  
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Tom Toles's Cartoon Caption Contest returns

Welcome back to the Tom Toles Cartoon Caption Contest. Here's how it works. Below is a cartoon, sketched by me, your resident editorial cartoonist. The prize is a print of that cartoon, signed by me and including the caption suggested...

By Tom Toles  | February 15, 2011; 12:00 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (683)
Categories:  Contest  
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Doctor's order

*** Funhouse My favorite story about McMansions (it may even be true!) was when a contractor told me about how a burglar broke into one with a boxcutter. He supposedly cut through the vinyl siding and just kicked through...

By Tom Toles  | February 15, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (21)
Categories:  Economy and jobs  
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Circular reasoning

*** Just a difference of opinion, except for the dying part People don't like being called stupid, but let's face it. One side or the other is sometimes being stupid. Let's see if we can decide which. On the...

By Tom Toles  | February 14, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (147)
Categories:  DC, Democrats, GOP  
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Date with destiny

By Tom Toles  | February 13, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (20)
Categories:  DC, Obama White House  
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