Lee Judge’s cartoons
Check out our collection of sharp political and cultural jabs by Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge. Also, his cartoon archives:
July-December 2012 January-July 2012 June-December 2011
FBI plan puts our privacy at risk
A summer of reading for low-income children
When will military get serious about reform?
Kathleen Sebelius and the ‘fourth scandal’
Nixon must protect Missouri by rejecting bad bills on taxes, guns, abortion, workers’ rights
Missouri is failing to protect at-risk children
Cartoons
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/19/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/12/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/5/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 4/28/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 4/21/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 4/14/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 4/7/13
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 4/01/13
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Lee Judge's cartoon archive
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Lee Judge cartoon archive
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Lee Judge cartoon archive: January-June 2013
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Editorials
A summer of reading for low-income children
Without books, low-income children get out of the habit of reading during the summer and struggle when school resumes. That’s why the effort this week to distribute 10,000 books to elementary children in Kansas City Public Schools is so critical.
Hidden in suburbia: poverty
A study found that poverty in the suburbs is growing more than twice as fast as in America’s urban cores, and Kansas City is no exception.
Yael T. Abouhalkah
Meltdown in Topeka: Brownback, lawmakers keep horror show going
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and the Republican-controlled Legislature can’t seem to get anything right. But wait: They did approve some unconstitutional gun laws.
Wal-Mart wins in Raytown, Lee’s Summit; is Waldo next?
As recent evidence shows in Raytown and Lee’s Summit, Wal-Mart usually gets its way by wooing public officials with the possibility of future tax revenues and wearing down its opponents.
Barbara Shelly
Kathleen Sebelius and the ‘fourth scandal’
One can envision the hearings. The outraged congressmen and the pompous senators grilling the secretary, with no answer likely to satisfy. The TV lights and live coverage on Fox. A new revelation (or non-revelation) popping up every couple of days. Is it any wonder good people are reluctant to go into public service these days?
Who needs legislators in the Do-It-Yourself State?
We still raise corn and cotton in Missouri, and cockleburs pop up as weeds. But we aren’t producing a bumper crop of Democrats these days. And, sadly, our state politicians are no longer immune to the frothy eloquence of charlatans who sell the false logic of income tax cuts and anti-worker laws and other brands of snake oil.
Mary Sanchez
When will military get serious about reform?
The U.S. military has proved to be a sexually hostile environment for women — and for a fair number of men as well. By the Pentagon’s own measures, women are more likely to become victims of sexual assault while in the military than in civilian life.
Questions of accountability and fairness remain after charter school’s reprieve
Missouri’s efforts to shut down Gordon Parks Elementary School show we still need to figure out a way to fairly hold accountable charter schools, which often set out to serve disadvantaged students.
Steve Rose
Hostess unions, the bell Ding Dongs for thee
Hostess has a new owner, who is opening the plants that make Twinkies, Ho Hos and Ding Dong brands. Only they are reopening without any unions. That’s one big step for American capitalism. And one big step backward for unions.
Let’s hope the Koch brothers don’t buy media
By the acquisition of major newspapers, wealthy Koch brothers of Wichita could purchase the forum for opinion that influences millions of voters. Whether you are conservative or liberal, the prospect of having that much power concentrated in so few hands should be plenty scary.
Midwest Voices
FBI plan puts our privacy at risk
Technology is moving faster than before, and laws must move equally fast if they are to keep up with ever-changing reality. But this is not the way to do it. Leaving your emails, IMs, etc. deliberately available at all times for law enforcement (or others) is an overreaction, a move of desperation.
The lessons of the Kermit Gosnell verdict
The principles implicated by the murder trial of the Pennsylvania abortion doctor make the trial and the static nature of public opinion significant news items. The significance, however, has been lost in a debate focused on the media rather than the weightier issues the case necessarily entails.
As I See It
White House running out of reasons to reject Keystone XL pipeline
“Enough with the delays,” writes Chris Faulkner, the CEO of Breitling Energy Cos. “The White House has no good reasons for rejecting the pipeline any longer. Keystone XL should be approved without delay.”
Judges should be picked on merit
“The Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan belongs to the people of Missouri,” writes Missouri Bar President Patrick B. Starke of Lee’s Summit, “and we must not let politicians and out-of-state special interests with big money steal it.”
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