American - Cartoonist | 1951 -
We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.
David Horsey
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Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
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Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.
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I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.
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If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.
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Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
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I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
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Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.
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The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.
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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
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What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
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The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.
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