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On Tuesday Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet announced it would publish the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.Cumhuriyet made the announcement on their Twitter feed. Bu dayanışmanın parçası olarak Charlie Hebdo’nun özel sayısından 4 sayfalık bir seçkiye bugün gazetemizde yer veriyoruz— cumhuriyet.com.tr (@cumhuriyetgzt) January 13, 2015 The paper received several threats after the announcement. An armed Turkish police officer stands guard outside the offices of Cumhuriyet (AFP)On Wednesday Turkish police raided the Cumhuriyet printing press. Police also stopped and checked trucks carrying the freshly-printed newspapers carrying the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.Middle East Eye reported: Turkish police stopped trucks carrying freshly-printed newspapers bearing Charlie Hebdo cartoons, searching...

Tyler DurdenJanuary 11, 2015

Following the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Reuters is reporting that many cartoonists are publishing cartoons with the hashtag #jesuischarlie; I am Charlie in French.  But the cartoons that they are publishing are anything but similar to the ones published in Charlie Hebdo that resulted in the attack. Most of the ones published by Reuters feature some variation on the theme that the "pen is mightier than the sword" or the rifle, in this case.  This is the cowards way out.  If these cartoonists had any real courage, they would publish a cartoon that shows the Prophet...

The Danish newspaper famous for its decision a decade ago to publish cartoons mocking Islam and the prophet Muhammad, said Friday that it won't republish cartoons from French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo because it's afraid of being attacked. "It shows that violence works," the newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, explained in an editorial.<> Islamic terrorists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris Wednesday, killing 10 journalists and two police officers in the process. It is widely believed that the murderous assault was revenge for the magazine’s satirical portrayals of Muslims.

SkyNews reports another shooting and hostage situation in France.

Um.... This cartoon is just so ridiculous...I have comments at the original post about how wrong this is. I can spare Freepers though, because why bother when you all KNOW it.

Not that the language was that harsh, but I scrubbed it for FR...

<p>The Indianapolis Star deleted a racist Gary Varvel cartoon depicting an illegal immigrant family climbing through the window while a white family had Thanksgiving dinner. Wow, really? The fact is, not all illegal immigrants are Hispanics.</p>

His pen and phone won’t help him this time

The Pentagon released a report Monday asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster response as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises. The report lays out a road map for how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms and widespread droughts. The Defense Department will begin by integrating plans for climate change risks across all of its operations, from war games and strategic defense planning situations to a rethinking of the...

BOSTON, Mass. —The Boston Branch of the NAACP says the Boston Herald has agreed to meet members of the community outraged by its editorial cartoon meant to satirize the Secret Service after an intruder made it deep into the White House.

The Boston Herald received a wave of criticism Wednesday morning after publishing an editorial cartoon about President Obama that many have deemed as racist.

Simon's cat discovers laundry day, with humorous consequences.

The anti-Semitism of the left leaked out through the liberal media this week.The Washington Post published this cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly punching a Palestinian baby. Via Pamela Geller:

  The official Facebook page Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has posted a cartoon comparing the three kidnapped Israeli students to rats.

"Dad loves #scifi because it's such a great way to explore the things that matter most." "Themes of #hope, #courage, good conquering evil -- why dad loves #comics." These are some of the tweets involving some well-known Hollywood names and faces on Twitter lately. In a forum not always known for bringing people together, a young woman has succeeded in a great adventure of celebrating life, even as her beloved father's comes to an end. Superheroes were the trending theme, and the most powerful of them all is a man named Stratford Caldecott. Since his Marvel comic-collecting boyhood, he's...

 "A Bill to Promote Burglary" was drawn the same year that the Roosevelt administration passed the first federal gun ban, the National Firearms Act of 1934. Dean Weingarten  Link to Gun Watch

On April 17, billionaire and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast governor Ihor Kolomoyskiy announced that he would pay $10,000 for any captured armed separatist from the east of Ukraine who will be handed over to the nation’s special forces.

Editorial cartoons often aren't pretty, to paraphrase Steve Martin's observation about the perils of comedy. But one found in the Opinion section of today's New York Times is downright ugly. The cartoon, alluding to this year's brutal winter, suggests U.S. Department of Commerce "Strategies for Dealing With the 2014 Icicle Surplus." Among them are using icicles as "locally sourced hydration devices," "temporary doorsteps," and "brainteasers for dogs." Then comes a suggestion that one immediately looks at again, in disgust and disbelief -- icicles can also be used as "self-destructing sabers for dispatching climate-change deniers." (Entire cartoon shown after the jump)...