Ben Sargent on the Presidential election, 2012

Ben Sargent, Austin American-Statesman, November 11, 2012

Ben Sargent: “Are you better off . . . ?”

Pulitzer 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.

The melting away of climate denialism?

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 . . .

Ben Sargent gets to the truth on voter identification litigation . . .

 

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)

 

Mitt’s economic policy: Hair of the dog

As 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

Republicans running (down!) government sorta like a business

Ben 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

Education board shames Texas: Ben Sargent and Texas education follies, part B

Ben 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