William J. Bryan: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 7
Our Presidential Election 1912 coverage continues, via the Centennial Year of Cartoons Magazine. From the February 1912 issue (reprinting editorial cartoons of the prior month, from newspapers around the country), our focus this time is William Jennings Bryan. While Republicans were at this stage wondering whether T.R. would enter the race, Democrats were wondering the [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 3
We continue our coverage of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial, with another set of extracts from the February 1912 second issue. Last month — i.e., January 1912 — saw pages of cartoons about not-yet-declared Presidential candidate T. Roosevelt, but only a single cartoon focused on eventual winner, Woodrow Wilson. A month later, Wilson received the four above [...]
The Grand Oil Party: GOP & Oil Company Bribes — 1920′s Teapot Dome Scandal
Given today’s entwining of the Republican Party with oil interests (denial of Global Warming as an ideological plank, enthusiastically made despite the reality of overwhelming scientific evidence; the shrill “Drill, Baby, Drill!’ of John McCain and Sarah Palin; the deliberate lack of enforcement of regulations of the oil industry, by oil men George W. Bush and Dick Cheney; [...]
