Cartoons: Legal Laughter
Think wills, courtrooms, and lawyers aren’t funny? Saturday Evening Post cartoonists beg to differ!
Think wills, courtrooms, and lawyers aren’t funny? Saturday Evening Post cartoonists beg to differ!
A leading educator argues that current reforms are short sighted, wrong headed—and bound to fail.
Tooning around in Strongsville, Ohio, is another of our favorite cartoonists—Ken Benner.
A champion for civil rights is remembered today less for his accomplishments than for his murder.
I would back Aunt Bertha against any living solitaire player for any amount of money you want, only providing that the judges leave the room during the contest.
Fortunately, more people listened to his music than to his critics.
“Uncle Art Satherley seeks out country music in the bayous, canebrakes and hills, and brings it back twangin’ and sobbin’ to 25,000,000 addicts.”
The President must appoint a new judge for the Supreme Court. Politically speaking, the circus has come to town.
An excerpt from Booth Tarkington’s memoirs “The World Does Move”, which explains why, in some people’s eyes, our grandparents were a bunch of vain, shallow, and immoral kids.
Post editorials of the 1860s reflect a long campaign for animal rights, which helped establish the ASPCA in New York 144 years ago this month.
Albert Einstein wants you to know that everything is NOT relative, America is a great country, and he might have been a happy, mediocre fiddler if he hadn’t become a genius in physics.
The successes of Sam Houston’s life were as remarkable as its failures. Again and again, as Houston saw his fortunes collapse, he looked for solace—retreating from the white community to live among Native Americans. Ultimately, though, he found it in a young woman from Alabama.
Thomas Jefferson didn’t mince words when he gave his view on religious freedom: “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God,” he once wrote. “It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
He was belittled for his family connections, his good looks, his privileged upbringing, and, of course, for several occasions of bad judgment as an adult. Even when it wasn’t convenient or politically correct, he stayed committed to an idea of humanitarian democracy.
August is a sweet time for melon lovers. Be sure to get the most out of your melons with these helpful tips.
Three talented Minnesota brothers have made an art out of winning the Federal Duck Stamp contest.