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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 | Lawmakers wasted their time, your money

May 25, 3:59 PM

The Missouri and Kansas legislative sessions are over, but we find ourselves looking back, in the way one swivels for a last view of a train wreck.

The Star’s editorial | A 'land bank' for Kansas City

May 25, 9:44 AM

One of the few constructive actions of this year’s Missouri legislative session was passage of a measure substantially boosting Kansas City’s ability to deal with vacant, abandoned properties.

Columns

Suzanne Conaway | Try a little logic in abortion talk

May 25, 6:45 PM

I spent more than 40 years in information technology. With computers, logic rules. I apply logic to other areas of my life as well. Logic cuts through emotions and religion in dissecting problems. Here’s my logical analysis of abortion.

Joel Brinkley | Young South Koreans ignore past with North

May 25, 4:03 PM

Y Just down the hill from a South Korean Air Force helipad sits the air base barbershop. The front wall is floor-to-ceiling windows displaying shattered toilets in the men’s room and a gaping hole in the ceiling, wires and rebar still dangling.

Mary Sanchez

‘Hate’ finally goes to prison

The term “rot in prison” was assigned a poster boy this week by an Arizona judge.

Previous Columns

Yael T. Abouhalkah

Why the mayor shelved his big property tax plan

What happens when mighty Superman turns into mild-mannered Clark Kent?

Previous Columns

Letters & more views

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
Letters | Rush Limbaugh, aiding China, Bishop Robert Finn May 22, 7:28 PM
Letters | Going green, President Obama, gun laws May 21, 6:58 PM
Letters | Education funding, true conservatives, buy American May 19, 12:14 AM

MIDWEST VOICES

A green light for more red-light cameras in KC May 26, 2:42 AM
Take a cue from Sweden on government spending May 26, 2:42 AM
Breasts at the Arboretum May 25, 3:47 PM
Try a little logic in abortion talk May 25, 3:52 PM
How Kansas, Missouri lawmakers wasted your money May 25, 3:47 PM
Let's have more fracking, for the sake of the environment May 25, 11:36 AM

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Cartoons

Lee Judge cartoon for May 25, 2012

Lee Judge's cartoons

May 25, 12:20 AM

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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