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More Praise for EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION

To achieve the Pulitzer Prize in ones lifetime is no small feat. For Michael Ramirez to earn two Pulitzers puts his editorial cartoons and analyses in a league of their own. In the following pages of Everyone Has the Rightto My Opinion, its immediately evident why Michaels legacy will be as one of the greatest editorial cartoonists of our time. Were proud to provide the platform for Michaels great work in the pages of Investors BusinessDaily.

William J. ONeil
Chairman and Founder,InvestorsBusiness Dailyand Investors.com

Who said you cant be conservative and funny at the same time? I found myself laughing and nodding my head. Michael Ramirez, one of Americas great political cartoonists, packs a real wallop.

Robert D. Novak
Nationally syndicated columnist

Mike Ramirezs pen is a weapon of mass destruction: lethal, explosive, and always on target. From Hollywood to Washington to Iran, no blowhard is safe. No sacred cow is immune. A picture may be worth 1,000 words. This collection of Ramirezs finest work: Priceless.

Michelle Malkin
Author ofUnhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
Fox News contributor

Michael Ramirezs cartoons brilliantly expose the results of centralized tyranny and ignorance.

Walter E. Williams
Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and nationally syndicated columnist

Michael Ramirez is very, very funny. You may not agree with himI usually dontbut I dare you not to laugh!

Susan Estrich
Professor of Law and Political Science, USC Gould School of Law
Fox News Analyst

Insightful, impactful, frighteningly beautiful, and often hilarious political commentary on our world. Ramirezs editorial cartoons would always be funny if the punchline werent so often very sad.

Arthur B. Laffer

One Michael Ramirez cartoon is worth far more than a thousand editorials. Heaven help the publicly pompous, fraudulent or incompetent butts of his brilliant, wickedly witty pen. Ramirez is an unsparingly perceptive, accurate and funny ethicist. His hilarious cartoons are heat-seeking missiles. Not even the most artful political dodgers can escape.

Pete Wilson
Governor of California, 1991-1999

Michael Ramirez gives new meaning to the phrase drawn and quartered. Rather than be depicted in a Ramirez cartoon, most politicians would choose to be chopped into fourths and disemboweled. (They dont have a lot of guts anyway.) Being literally drawn and quartered means pols could run for office in four different electoral districts at once. Being drawn by Ramirez means theyre really done for.

P.J. ORourke
Journalist, Author

Michaels incredible talent is demonstrated by his consistent ability to capture the moment in a historic perspective.

Don Sundquist
Governor of Tennessee, 1995-2003

Two Pulitzer prizes dont begin to describe Michael Ramirezs talent for portraying the essence of an idea in a single image. In his case, one picture is worth a thousand Pulitzers. He is a national treasure, and this anthology of his work is our way to share in it.

Christopher Cox
Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission

To my parents, Fumiko and I. Edward Ramirez, to the entire Ramirez family, to Deborah McNeely, and to our valiant troops around the world whose courage and sacrifice secure our freedom and liberty.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

FOREWORD

Politics is among the most noble of human activities, but we are at risk of forgetting that today. Too many people have embraced a view that is best described as cynical: They assume that politics consists of nothing but greedy grabs for power, power being the end, politics the means. So long as men are not angels, there always will be selfish and dishonest politicians, to be sure. But politics also offers a stage for great acts of human excellence. Politics illuminates courage, moderation, prudence, and justice. It is where magnanimity shines most brightly. Why else would the great William Shakespeare choose political settings for his greatest plays?

An exercise in ruling and being ruled in turn, politics happens when men and women deliberate, debate, and sometimes fight about who is going to rule, who is going to get ruled, and what kind of rule will be enforced and obeyed. Politics, in other words, is made possible by and cultivates logos, the Greek word that means both articulate speech and reason. At its core, politics is the human activity: men and women coming together to think, speak, articulate, and improve their understanding of the true, the good, and the just, as they attempt to enshrine these qualities into the public laws.

Some might find the following suggestion controversial, but I assume readers enjoy a taste of controversy lest they would not have in their hands this book, which is filled with controversy: In order to live life to its fullest capacity, human beings must be self-governing; the problem is that self-government is a rare and therefore precious phenomenon in human history. Most human beings throughout most of history have not participated in their own political rule; instead, they have been lorded over without their consent, forced to live a kind of life not of their choosing. They were deprived of the opportunity to lead and enjoy a fuller life, the life of a self-governing human being.

We Americans are blessed to find ourselves as the beneficiaries of the greatest experiment in self-government, what Abraham Lincoln called the last best hope of earth. But let us not be naive. It is nowhere foreordained that American self-government and freedom will survive forever. Even the Founders were unsure of that.

Enter the world of editorial cartooning. The editorial cartoon stands alone as the most succinct of all forms of politics. Within only several square inches on a piece of paper, a good editorial cartoon, sometimes without including one word, is like a jolt of adrenaline through the veins of a political people. By their very nature, editorial cartoons stir controversy, spark debate and discussion, and move minds to think thoughts not thought before. The art of the editorial cartoon has been transformed over centuries, and perfected in certain ways, but it remains a political art just as it was at the time of our nations founding.

Those cartoons, then, and the best of them today, encourage people to be feisty and to think for themselves, which is why so many of us take to, enjoy, and circulate editorial cartoons. Newspaper-reading Americans consistently rank the editorial cartoon as their favorite part of the newspaper. That is good news. It means the political spirit of freedom is still alive in America.

Enter Michael Ramirez. If the editorial cartoon stands as the most succinct of all political art forms, then Michael Ramirez stands as the master artist. Previously at the

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