The Dollar or the Man # 1: Gentlemen, Let Me Introduce My Friend
With less than a week to go before the 2010 mid-term elections, Republican Tea Party candidates are riding a wave of voter anger to successfully challenge political incumbents. The Tea Partiers dodge the media and offer sketchy details on what they will do if elected. They struggle to distance themselves from their previous public statements [...]
“Willie and His Papa”, by Fred Opper, 1900
During the Presidential Election of 1900, cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper ran Hearst-owned newspaper, the New York Evening Journal, the one panel comic strip Willie and His Papa, satirizing the influence of money from the Trusts (i.e., corporate monopolies) on the Republican side of the election. After the recent decision of our current conservative activist Supreme Court to throw [...]
