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It turns out a freelance photographer for Reuters has been blowing smoke on his pictures.  Adnan Hajj was fired for using Photoshop to doctor Beirut bombing photos.  Reuters removed all 920 of Hajj's pictures from its database.

Like the smoke in my cartoon?  Photoshop.

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American politicians call it the expectations game.  You set low expectations and when you exceed them people think you won.  It works for our president.

The expectations bar for Hezbollah was set at simple survival.

The President of Iran praises Hezbollah's victory.

The President of Syria praises Hezbollah's victory.  "Bashir al-Assad said that the once invincible Israeli
army had been humiliated and that the Jewish state would do well to
seek peace and hand back occupied Arab land -"

Hezbollah praises Heszbollah's victory.  "HEZBOLLAH leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has declared that his
guerillas achieved a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel…"We came out victorious in a war in which big Arab armies were
defeated (before),"

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Krauthammer considers Vietnam and Iraq as battles in the Cold War and War on Terror respectively.  He thinks the peace movement's party purges hurt the Democrats in the larger war.

Paul Greenberg makes a similar point that by turning its back on Lieberman, "…the Democratic Party will have lost its last honest-to-goodness Harry Truman/John F. Kennedy/Scoop Jackson figure."  He thinks that will cause another Reagan Democrat exodus.

Rich Lowry thinks it could become Bush's Vietnam because he didn't use all the tools to win.

George Will thinks the War on Terror should be treated as a law enforcement issue.

Mark Steyn seems to think George Will is nuts.  "Absent a determination to throttle the ideology, we're about to witness the unraveling of the world."

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The British used electronic eavesdropping and money tracking to bust the plane plot.  Just the programs that have been criticized in the U.S. for violating civil liberties.

In a Joseph Rago Wall Street Journal article over the weekend Norman Podhoretz complains about poor intelligence in Iraq.

"You cannot fight a revanchist insurgency and certainly not one that uses terrorist tactics without good intelligence . . . and you can only get that kind of intelligence by squeezing it out of prisoners…the domestic opposition and the international community, unhappily, are "defining torture down. The things they're calling 'torture' now have never been and have no business being considered torture."

Present your waterboarding pass at the gate.

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The Brits broke up a huge terror plot at Heathrow yesterday.  The terrorists planned to carry on liquid explosives and assemble their bombs in-flight.

Not to make light of a serious situation, but how were they going to accomplish that on a crowded plane?

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It took 5 cops with stun guns and Mace to stop Maurice Clarett's rampage.  How come he couldn't make the NFL?

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Before leaving the polls, Ohio voters used to be given "I Voted Today" stickers.  Like the government, the stickers have expanded.  They now read, "I Voted Today  Change Our World Vote Your Conscience". 

Not quite as pithy as "Live Free or Die".

The slogan comes from a 20 point character building program called Uncommon Sense which has been adopted by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. The program was written by the Assistant Secretary of State and a business consultant.

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Considering Mel Gibson's attention getting commentary on Jews, why the relative silence on black face Joe Lieberman?

This is a story that got a lot of play in the blog world but not much in newspapers so I hesitated to do a cartoon about it. But why be a slave to print?

Jane Hamsher posted the Photoshop altered image of Joe Lieberman in black face on the Huffington Post.  Hamsher is a self-described "progressive blogger".  She's also a Ted Lamont campaign insider. 

Maybe she works for Reuters.

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Senate Republicans maneuvered the Democrats into choosing between hating the rich and loving the poor. 

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An independent panel recommended that The University of Akron rein in it's kangaroo student court.

Charles Plinton was suspended from school in 2004 when the court found him responsible for buying a small amount of pot from a felon informant.  Plinton had already been acquitted in criminal court.  He later committed suicide.

The shool mascot is  "Zippy", a kangaroo.