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Wake Up and Smell the Stimulus Package

By: Nate Beeler
07/09/09 11:04 PM

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The Continuing Misadventures of Marion Barry

By: Nate Beeler
07/08/09 10:17 PM

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Sarah Palin Says She Has a Higher Calling

By: Nate Beeler
07/06/09 10:44 PM

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The Washington Post's Pay-for-Access Scandal

By: Nate Beeler
07/04/09 2:37 PM

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Kim Jong-Il Celebrates Independence Day

By: Nate Beeler
07/03/09 1:27 AM

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Daily Affirmations with the Grand Old Party

By: Nate Beeler
07/02/09 3:47 AM

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Caricatures of Woods, Peterson, Lerner and Mar

By: Nate Beeler
06/30/09 11:12 PM

It's been a long time since I last posted my caricatures. I'm about three months behind, and my plan is to post the backlog to the blog over time. Let's begin with the caricatures from the past two Sundays: Tiger Woods Tanya Peterson Ted Lerner Eric Mar → Follow Nate Beeler on Twitter! → Get Nate Beeler's cartoons sent to your e-mail...

The Irrefutable Science of Cap and Trade

By: Nate Beeler
06/30/09 12:34 AM

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How Do You Choose to Remember Michael Jackson?

By: Nate Beeler
06/26/09 9:08 PM

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Boys Just Want to Be Rock Stars and Politicians

By: Nate Beeler
06/26/09 12:02 AM

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Remembering the Victims of the Metro Train Crash

By: Nate Beeler
06/24/09 4:55 PM

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Ayatollah Khamenei Responds to Unrest in Iran

By: Nate Beeler
06/23/09 2:16 AM

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The Greatest Gift a Son Can Give to a Father

By: Nate Beeler
06/20/09 11:54 PM

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What Obama Needs Is an Industrial-Size Flyswatter

By: Nate Beeler
06/18/09 10:08 PM

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Obama Rolls Out the Red Tape for Wall Street

By: Nate Beeler
06/17/09 11:38 PM

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Are You Going to Believe Ahmadinejad or Those Lying Eyes of Yours?

By: Nate Beeler
06/16/09 12:07 AM

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Uncle Sam's Emergency Towing, Wrecker and Repairs Company

By: Nate Beeler
06/01/09 10:46 PM

I'll be on vacation the rest of this week and next, so check back on June 16 for my next cartoon! → Follow Nate Beeler on Twitter! → Get Nate Beeler's cartoons sent to your e-mail...

The Petty Vandalism By Some on the Right

By: Nate Beeler
05/31/09 11:38 AM

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Pay No Mind to the Raving Lunatic With Nuclear Weapons

By: Nate Beeler
05/28/09 10:58 PM

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What Sotomayor Will Bring to the Supreme Court

By: Nate Beeler
05/27/09 11:58 PM

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Paying Tribute to Those Who Have Fallen

By: Nate Beeler
05/24/09 11:09 AM

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The Bodybuilders and the Girly Man

By: Nate Beeler
05/22/09 2:43 AM

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Keeping Perspective in the Middle East Peace Process

By: Nate Beeler
05/20/09 9:17 PM

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Welcome to the Real World, College Graduates

By: Nate Beeler
05/18/09 11:13 PM

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Former VP Dick Cheney Just Won't Go Away

By: Nate Beeler
05/16/09 2:18 PM

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Pants Are Ablaze

By: Nate Beeler
05/14/09 11:58 PM

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Uncle Sam Has Been Sleeping on the Job

By: Nate Beeler
05/14/09 4:17 AM

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To Boldly Go Where No Congress Has Gone Before

By: Nate Beeler
05/12/09 1:37 AM

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Obama Gives Lip Service to Fiscal Responsibility

By: Nate Beeler
05/08/09 10:56 AM

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The D.C. Council Sure Likes to Push Our Hot Buttons

By: Nate Beeler
05/07/09 4:28 AM

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Are Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Safe from the Taliban?

By: Nate Beeler
05/04/09 10:10 PM

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President Obama's Super-Powered Super-Majority

By: Nate Beeler
05/03/09 12:58 PM

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Arlen Specter Gives the Republican Party a Wake-Up Call

By: Nate Beeler
05/01/09 12:04 AM

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The Spending Sickness That Plagues Capitol Hill

By: Nate Beeler
04/28/09 1:20 AM

Looking at this cartoon after the fact, I probably should have put the words "earmarks," "pork" or "spending" somewhere in the cartoon to make the point clearer. I'm always second-guessing myself because cartoons like this give me good reason. It's a good concept, but it could have been executed better. → Follow Nate Beeler on Twitter! → Get Nate Beeler's cartoons sent to your e-mail...

When Torture is Tolerated by Democrats on the Hill

By: Nate Beeler
04/26/09 2:43 PM

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He's a lumberjack and he's OK ...

By: Nate Beeler
04/24/09 12:36 AM

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President Obama Is Trying to Do Just About Everything

By: Nate Beeler
04/23/09 12:07 AM

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Yet Another Problem Caused by Global Warming

By: Nate Beeler
04/21/09 1:00 AM

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Obama's Diplomatic Tap Dance with Cuba

By: Nate Beeler
04/19/09 10:36 PM

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The White House Responds to the Tea Party Protests

By: Nate Beeler
04/17/09 12:05 AM

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Republicans Crash the Tea Party

By: Nate Beeler
04/15/09 9:59 PM

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You've Just Been Egg Rolled

By: Nate Beeler
04/14/09 1:11 AM

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The Life of Modern-Day Pirates

By: Nate Beeler
04/12/09 10:06 AM

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Is Tweeting Just for the Birds?

By: Nate Beeler
04/10/09 2:08 AM

This cartoon is maybe a tad hypocritical, since I just jumped on the bandwagon and started "tweeting" (or is it "twittering?") last week. Though I give you my word of honor that I won't be tweeting my every random thought or whether I feel the urge to hit the bathroom. → Follow Nate on Twitter! → Get Nate's cartoons sent to your e-mail...

Carrot and Stick

By: Nate Beeler
04/09/09 1:43 AM

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Modern Business Strategies

By: Nate Beeler
04/06/09 11:57 PM

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Missile Tests

By: Nate Beeler
04/06/09 12:47 AM

Vantage Point

By: Nate Beeler
04/03/09 12:48 AM

I'm getting with this whole Web 2.0 thing, albeit slowly but surely. Case in point: I am now on Twitter. So, for those of you who are inclined, you can follow me at http://twitter.com/natebeeler. Besides linking to my blog posts here, I also plan on sharing some of the news stories that pique my interest during the day....

The Competition

By: Nate Beeler
04/01/09 11:26 PM

Land of the Lost

By: Nate Beeler
03/31/09 1:08 AM

Marion Barry's Excuse

By: Nate Beeler
03/29/09 11:14 AM

There's nothing like a little bit of ridiculous Marion Barry humor to lighten a drizzly Sunday!...

The PiƱata

By: Nate Beeler
03/27/09 2:59 AM

Seeing Red

By: Nate Beeler
03/25/09 10:17 PM

The Comedian in Chief

By: Nate Beeler
03/23/09 11:28 PM

The Lynch Mob

By: Nate Beeler
03/20/09 3:58 AM

Bad AIG

By: Nate Beeler
03/19/09 2:40 AM

Some days you can spend hours on crosshatching and brainstorming. And on others you get super-early deadlines. One thing of note on this cartoon was that it was done entirely on the computer. The past few weeks I've done about three other all-digital cartoons. The results are similar, but I still have to say that I much prefer the tactile feel of drawing and inking on paper....

Treasury Office Pool

By: Nate Beeler
03/16/09 10:45 PM

D.C. Vote Showdown

By: Nate Beeler
03/15/09 6:00 AM

Obummer

By: Nate Beeler
03/13/09 9:00 AM

Bailout Bum

By: Nate Beeler
03/12/09 9:00 AM

This cartoon was sparked by this very interesting story from The New York Times about how some banks are now rejecting the bailout money....

Deposits Only

By: Nate Beeler
03/09/09 11:45 PM

Bill and Barack

By: Nate Beeler
03/07/09 9:25 PM

It's Going, Going ...

By: Nate Beeler
03/05/09 10:07 PM

Obama Twitters

By: Nate Beeler
03/04/09 9:15 PM

Coburn and Darbee

By: Nate Beeler
03/04/09 4:35 PM

Here are the caricatures from March 1: Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Peter Darbee, the chairman, CEO and president of PG&E...

Winter Weather

By: Nate Beeler
03/02/09 11:38 PM

Superman?

By: Nate Beeler
02/27/09 3:33 AM

Obama's Words and Deeds

By: Nate Beeler
02/25/09 10:18 PM

Muchas Caricaturas

By: Nate Beeler
02/25/09 1:30 AM

I apologize for being a few weeks behind in posting my weekly caricatures. I figured I might as well post them all at once now instead of spacing them out over a few days. So, at long last, here they are, with the most recent at the top: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Washington Capitals superstar Alexander Ovechkin Composer Philip Glass Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute American cyclist Levi Leipheimer Ben Jealous, NAACP president and chief executive...

The Paradox

By: Nate Beeler
02/23/09 11:04 PM

Be sure to check out The Examiner's editorial on D.C. voting rights, which you can read here....

Lotsa Zeroes

By: Nate Beeler
02/23/09 2:02 AM

Finding Religion

By: Nate Beeler
02/20/09 12:38 AM

Ample Trunk Space

By: Nate Beeler
02/19/09 12:55 PM

Piling It On

By: Nate Beeler
02/17/09 1:04 AM

Tough Pill

By: Nate Beeler
02/15/09 10:00 AM

Barry, Barry Bad

By: Nate Beeler
02/13/09 5:34 AM

Banks Show No Love

By: Nate Beeler
02/12/09 3:22 AM

The More the Merrier

02/10/09 12:35 AM

Not That Kind of Stimulus

By: Nate Beeler
02/08/09 1:11 AM

Reid, Tan and Williams

By: Nate Beeler
02/06/09 3:46 AM

Here are the caricatures from Feb. 1: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Yuan Yuan Tan, of the San Francisco Ballet Gary Williams, the University of Maryland men's basketball...

Oh, Drama

By: Nate Beeler
02/05/09 2:44 AM

Bipartisanship

By: Nate Beeler
02/03/09 1:32 AM

Nice Dolphin

By: Nate Beeler
02/01/09 11:39 PM

D.C. Weather Wimps

By: Nate Beeler
01/30/09 5:20 AM

Jones, Schwartz and Booth

By: Nate Beeler
01/29/09 4:06 AM

Sorry about the lack of updates the past few days. It's contest time for us cartoonists and the deadlines are coming quick! It's a lot of work for little, if any, payoff. I meant to post these earlier but ... Here are the caricatures for Jan. 25: Ret. Gen. James Jones, President Obama's national security advisor Stephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist of the musical "Wicked" John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's...

Error Message

By: Nate Beeler
01/27/09 1:52 AM

Stimulus Stew

By: Nate Beeler
01/26/09 1:43 AM

After the Inauguration

By: Nate Beeler
01/23/09 6:00 AM

Day One for Obama

By: Nate Beeler
01/22/09 1:25 AM

Barack Obama

By: Nate Beeler
01/20/09 2:14 PM

Here is the caricature from Jan. 18: President Barack...

Historic Inauguration

By: Nate Beeler
01/20/09 1:18 AM

Below is the color version of the cartoon. I originally thought it should just be black and white, for a variety of reasons, but decided to see if there was some way to get color in it. Of course, I was inspired by the posters of Shepard Fairey. It's not a lot of color, but adding the blue and red gives it a patriotic feeling as well as making it look a bit like a silkscreen print. I haven't tried it yet, but I have the feeling the cartoon would really pop out at you if you're wearing 3-D...

Farewell

By: Nate Beeler
01/18/09 12:59 PM

Protesting Israel

By: Nate Beeler
01/14/09 11:31 PM

Michelle Obama

By: Nate Beeler
01/14/09 3:15 AM

Here's the caricature for Jan. 11: Michelle Obama, wife of President-elect Barack...

The Bush Legacy

By: Nate Beeler
01/13/09 2:26 AM

Israel Under Fire

By: Nate Beeler
01/10/09 5:31 PM

Fenty Has Another Spill

By: Nate Beeler
08/15/08 10:00 AM

Mayor Fenty's been wiping out a bit too much lately, on his bike as well as in his official capacity. It was about time for me to revisit the D.C. youth summer jobs program story, so it seemed natural to put Fenty's wipe-outs to good use in a cartoon. It also just so happened that my editor decided to write an editorial about it today. Although I'm never required to do so, it is kind of nice when I can pair the cartoon with the editorial....

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