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Check out our collection of sharp political and cultural jabs by Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge. Also, his cartoon archives:

June-December 2011

January-June 2011

June-December 2010

Editorials

The Star’s editorial | Reaching out to help children with autism

May 25, 11:39 PM

Gaby Lucas remembers the dawning realization that her firstborn child was probably “a bit different.”

The Star’s editorial | New lives for old schools in Kansas City

May 25, 11:37 PM

Efforts by Kansas City Public Schools to sell buildings it closed a few years ago appear to be picking up steam. That’s a positive development for the neighborhoods where dozens of empty buildings have had a blighting influence.

Columns

Mary Sanchez

Closing the border won’t shut down illicit trade

A time-tested method of tracing malfeasance back to its origins is “follow the money.” Corporate scams, insider trading or, as former presidential candidate John Edwards is learning, even sex scandals fall to such tracking.

Previous Columns

Public Editor

Suspect ID, politics, KansasCity.com

I always hear a lot of good comments from readers, but the feedback has been unusually interesting recently. Let’s look at a few items that I’ve found worthy of note.

Previous Columns

What joy when losing gives way to winning

May 25, 11:45 PM

It was our much-anticipated quarterly lunch with Tim Kurkjian, baseball analyst extraordinaire, wherein George Will and I bathe in a constant flow of obscure statistics, Kurkjian oddities and ribald anecdotes, like the one about the Red Sox beat writer who accidentally walked in on a players’ prayer meeting and was greeted by the burly right fielder, newly born again and not yet practiced in the language of Christian fellowship, bellowing, “Hey! Can’t you see we’re having f——— chapel here?”

E. Thomas McClanahan

Time to take a cue from Sweden, of all places

There’s little argument that the $800 billion-plus stimulus bill that was President Barack Obama’s first “accomplishment” soon became one of his biggest political liabilities. The recovery that began in mid-2009 has been the weakest since World War II in terms of GDP growth and nearly the weakest in terms of job growth.

Previous Columns

Letters & more views

Letters | NATO protests, Royals, Rush Limbaugh May 25, 11:40 PM
Letters | Memorial Day, austerity, Social Security May 25, 11:32 PM
Letters | Legos, Secret Service, Catholic Church May 25, 7:21 PM
Letters | Afghanistan war, Mitt Romney, gun theft May 25, 4:02 PM
Letters | Newborns, Rush Limbaugh, racial profiling May 24, 6:17 PM
Letters | Sports talk, executive pay, Rush Limbaugh May 23, 5:54 PM

MIDWEST VOICES

Reaching out to help children with autism May 28, 1:37 AM
New lives for old KC schools May 28, 1:37 AM
How black Civil War veterans helped start Memorial Day May 27, 4:12 AM
Let the good times roll, no matter the cost May 27, 12:32 AM
Tending the graves of our fallen, but buried overseas May 27, 12:32 AM
The Vatican meltdown: toward a Catholic Church of America May 27, 12:32 AM

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Cartoons

Lee Judge cartoon for May 27, 2012

Lee Judge's cartoons

May 26, 8:32 PM

Check out our collection of sharp political and cultural jabs by Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge. Also, his cartoon archives:

June-December 2011

January-June 2011

June-December 2010

| McClatchy

Glenn McCoy / Belleville News-Democrat (May 13, 2012)

This week's McClatchy cartoons

May 15, 6:25 PM

Political humor from all of McClatchy Newspapers' cartoonists, including Jim Morin, Rex Babin, Joel Pett and our own Lee Judge.

AS I SEE IT

Richard S. Brown | Let’s find common ground on guns

May 22, 7:47 PM

The two major political parties need to come up with a solution for reducing access to guns by criminals and unstable persons. That solution lies in reducing or eliminating black market sales.

David Johnson | Downtowners are leading the way on transit May 19, 12:17 AM
The courage to become an artist May 16, 8:16 PM
Food aid to Africa displays a commitment to those in need May 8, 6:13 PM

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