http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/category/comics comics news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2013 2013-06-19T18:30:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061713_scalia_voting_rights/scalias-cunning-plan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061713_scalia_voting_rights/scalias-cunning-plan/ 02:24:00Z Roberto De Vido There goes Justice Scalia, siding with the liberals again ... 2013-06-18T02:24:17+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060713_enema_by_the_state/enema-by-state/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060713_enema_by_the_state/enema-by-state/ 00:53:00Z Roberto De Vido The National Security Agency and the FBI are conducting surveillance of Americans’ telephone and internet communications activities. And some people are surprised. 2013-06-08T00:53:54+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053013_johnny_peacemaker/johnny-peacemaker/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053013_johnny_peacemaker/johnny-peacemaker/ 21:54:00Z Roberto De Vido Senator John McCain visited Syria earlier this week to meet with rebel leaders. Why? He ain’t sayin’. 2013-05-30T21:54:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052613_steenking_badges/smile-youre-under-arrest/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052613_steenking_badges/smile-youre-under-arrest/ 06:21:00Z Roberto De Vido Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio violated the civil rights of Latinos who were detained during immigration sweeps, a federal judge has ruled. 2013-05-27T06:21:21+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043013_guantanamo/guantanamo/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043013_guantanamo/guantanamo/ 23:18:00Z Roberto De Vido President Obama again vowed to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. 2013-04-30T23:18:25+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_up_and_atom/up-and-atom-politics-and-nuclear-waste/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_up_and_atom/up-and-atom-politics-and-nuclear-waste/ 04:23:00Z Roberto De Vido Republican Arizona State Senator Al Melvin has established an exploratory committee to evaluate his chances for a successful run for the governor’s office. One of the main planks of his platform appears to be the construction of nuclear waste processing facilities in Arizona. What could go wrong? 2013-04-23T04:23:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_term_limits_brewer/term-limits-schmerm-limits/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042213_term_limits_brewer/term-limits-schmerm-limits/ 23:31:00Z Roberto De Vido Gov. Jan Brewer wants you to know she is not tired of serving the people. 2013-04-22T23:31:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040513_beau_geste/beau-geste/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040513_beau_geste/beau-geste/ 00:27:00Z Roberto De Vido President Obama is taking a five-percent pay cut, to show solidarity with federal workers affected by government sequestration. Vice President Biden is not. 2013-04-06T00:27:17+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033113_panda_love/panda-love/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/033113_panda_love/panda-love/ 12:20:00Z Roberto De Vido So the Smithsonian’s giant panda Mei Xiang is knocked up. Maybe. Fingers crossed, anyway. 2013-03-31T12:20:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031913_great_days_in_naval_history/great-days-naval-history/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031913_great_days_in_naval_history/great-days-naval-history/ 12:09:00Z Roberto De Vido Despite Dennis Rodman’s best efforts, the situation in North Korea is still unstable ... 2013-03-19T12:09:24+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031313_tucson_mark/kelly-rifle-buy-riles-right/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/031313_tucson_mark/kelly-rifle-buy-riles-right/ 12:01:00Z Roberto De Vido Didja hear? Mark Kelly bought an AR-15. And the right wing went ape. 2013-03-13T12:01:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022713_debt_cartoon/how-thoughtful/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022713_debt_cartoon/how-thoughtful/ 21:03:00Z Matt Davies When it comes to debt, count on politicians to “think of the children.” 2013-02-27T21:03:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022713_il_papa/the-papal-conclave/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022713_il_papa/the-papal-conclave/ 11:57:00Z Roberto De Vido Didja ever wonder why the pope isn’t selected by God? Yeah, us too. 2013-02-27T11:57:45+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022113_the_beeb/the-beeb-media-sensationalism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/022113_the_beeb/the-beeb-media-sensationalism/ 22:17:00Z Roberto De Vido The BBC has commissioned a quickie documentary about the life and times of amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, recently in the news for allegedly murdering his girlfriend. 2013-02-21T22:17:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020113_milk_run/milk-run/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/020113_milk_run/milk-run/ 17:14:00Z Roberto De Vido Guns and women, in the news. Conservative activist Gayle Trotter appeared at Senate Judiciary Committee gun control hearings this week to say that women need assault rifles – “scary-looking guns” – because a woman “might have to fight off four or five criminals ‘with her children screaming in the background.” 2013-02-02T17:14:26+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012513_youre_in_the_army_now/youre-army-now/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/012513_youre_in_the_army_now/youre-army-now/ 06:10:00Z Roberto De Vido The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from ground combat and will open combat jobs and direct combat units to female troops. 2013-01-26T06:10:04+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011313_more_binders_of_women/meanwhile-more-binders-full-women/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011313_more_binders_of_women/meanwhile-more-binders-full-women/ 00:25:00Z Roberto De Vido Women may hold up half the sky, but they don’t look likely to feature heavily in the president’s next cabinet. 2013-01-14T00:25:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/123012_axis_of_ridiculous/north-korea-axis-ridiculous/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/123012_axis_of_ridiculous/north-korea-axis-ridiculous/ 10:06:00Z Roberto De Vido There’s a new Kim in town, but can we expect the bad boy regime in Pyongyang to change? 2012-12-30T10:06:12+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121512_pontifex/pontifex-papal-propaganda/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121512_pontifex/pontifex-papal-propaganda/ 23:41:00Z Roberto De Vido The Pope, as you may have heard, is tweeting. 2012-12-15T23:41:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121012_throwaway_culture_comic/throwaway-culture/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/121012_throwaway_culture_comic/throwaway-culture/ 17:09:00Z Matt Davies From diapers to temporary workers, society is chock-full of conveniently disposable items. 2012-12-10T17:09:08+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120412_wheres_jan/wheres-jan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/120412_wheres_jan/wheres-jan/ 01:37:00Z Roberto De Vido Carmen Sandiego, Waldo (or Wally, if you’re British) and now Gov. Jan Brewer. 2012-12-05T01:37:04+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112912_more_about_chairs/more-chairs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112912_more_about_chairs/more-chairs/ 01:51:00Z Roberto De Vido Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited the White House Thursday for lunch with President Barack Obama. 2012-11-30T01:51:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112012_the_peace_laureates/the-peace-laureates/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/112012_the_peace_laureates/the-peace-laureates/ 11:52:00Z Roberto De Vido During a visit to Southeast Asia, President Obama became the first American president to visit Myanmar, and took the opportunity to meet longtime opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi. 2012-11-20T11:52:31+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111412_general_correspondence/general-correspondence/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/111412_general_correspondence/general-correspondence/ 11:22:00Z Roberto De Vido The penis mightier than the sword. If you’ll pardon the pun. 2012-11-14T11:22:33+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110712_hangover/the-election-hangover/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110712_hangover/the-election-hangover/ 14:12:00Z Roberto De Vido The campaign is over. The election is decided. It feels anticlimactic. 2012-11-07T14:12:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110412_just_in_case/just-case/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110412_just_in_case/just-case/ 22:15:00Z Roberto De Vido Have you voted? Are you planning to vote? You should. Voting is one of the perks of democracy. One we Americans, sadly, seem to take for granted. 2012-11-04T22:15:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110112_christie_2016/laying-groundwork-christie-2016/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110112_christie_2016/laying-groundwork-christie-2016/ 15:10:00Z Roberto De Vido New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is considered a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, if Mitt Romney loses the current presidential election. 2012-11-01T15:10:53+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102812_romney_suburban/a-man-plan-suv-oval-office/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102812_romney_suburban/a-man-plan-suv-oval-office/ 16:45:00Z Roberto De Vido Coming into the final days before the election, Mitt Romney has tightened the race up, but is still looking for that silver bullet that will give him the win. 2012-10-29T16:45:04+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102312_sisyphus_romney/sisyphus-romney/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102312_sisyphus_romney/sisyphus-romney/ 16:05:00Z Roberto De Vido You’ve got to feel for Mitt Romney. What’s a guy got to do to get a little HELP around here? 2012-10-24T16:05:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102012_bain_capitomerta/bain-capitomerta/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/102012_bain_capitomerta/bain-capitomerta/ 12:29:00Z Roberto De Vido You’ve got to hand it to Mitt Romney: the man knows how to keep a secret. 2012-10-20T12:29:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/101612_road_to-hempstead/the-road-hempstead/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/101612_road_to-hempstead/the-road-hempstead/ 22:48:00Z Roberto De Vido According to nearly everyone’s scorecard, President Obama lost the first debate on points, some observers scoring it a technical knockout. He’s been working hard to lift his game. 2012-10-16T22:48:15+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/100312_and_the_winner_is/no-debate-winner/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/100312_and_the_winner_is/no-debate-winner/ 05:25:00Z Roberto De Vido The punditocracy has proclaimed Mitt Romney the winner of Wednesday’s first presidential debate. And Democrats and Republicans can agree that Jim Lehrer was the big loser. 2012-10-04T05:25:19+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092512_obama_cartoons/so-wheres-all-comics-disparaging-obama8230/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092512_obama_cartoons/so-wheres-all-comics-disparaging-obama8230/ 14:01:00Z Roberto De Vido An explanation of the art of editorial cartooning. 2012-09-26T14:01:46+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092412_mitts_grand_plan/mitts-grand-plan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092412_mitts_grand_plan/mitts-grand-plan/ 06:20:00Z Roberto De Vido More frank talk (to high-rolling donors) from Mitt Romney. 2012-09-25T06:20:18+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092212_tom_the_tax_guy/tom-tax-guy/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092212_tom_the_tax_guy/tom-tax-guy/ 23:39:00Z Roberto De Vido Mitt Romney has released further information about his past taxpaying habits. 2012-09-22T23:39:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092112_mother_knows_best/mother-knows-best/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092112_mother_knows_best/mother-knows-best/ 21:50:00Z Roberto De Vido Imagining a conversation between the young Ann Romney (née Davies) and her mother, Lois Davies. 2012-09-21T21:50:43+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092012_the_flying_mormon/the-flying-mormon/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/092012_the_flying_mormon/the-flying-mormon/ 05:42:00Z Roberto De Vido Fox News will probably find a way to spin the news of Pawlenty’s departure as a “win” for Romney, but it sure does look like the rats are abandoning ship. 2012-09-21T05:42:50+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091512_grotesque/royal-family-appearances/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091512_grotesque/royal-family-appearances/ 17:36:00Z Roberto De Vido The British tabloids are in a dither about the publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge by non-British news media. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot. 2012-09-16T17:36:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091412_romney-ryan/opportunities/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091412_romney-ryan/opportunities/ 12:47:00Z Roberto De Vido Everything is an opportunity, thought Mitt Romney to himself when he heard that Ambassador Chris Stevens had been killed in Benghazi by Muslim extremists. 2012-09-15T12:47:04+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091312_killer_app/killer-app/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091312_killer_app/killer-app/ 18:29:00Z Roberto De Vido Which would you rather have: an invisibility app, or a see-into-the-future app? 2012-09-13T18:29:43+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090712_men_at_work/men-work/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090712_men_at_work/men-work/ 22:07:00Z Roberto De Vido Be honest, if you knew where to get 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete, wouldn’t you want a full-size replica of the Hoover Dam in your backyard? 2012-09-07T22:07:20+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_ladies_man/ladies-man/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_ladies_man/ladies-man/ 22:43:00Z Roberto De Vido The ladies DO love Bill Clinton. 2012-09-06T22:43:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_double_dubya/a-double-dubya/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090612_double_dubya/a-double-dubya/ 07:19:00Z Roberto De Vido Come on ... you voted for Dubya twice and you think you’re qualified to elect presidents? Seriously? 2012-09-06T07:19:24+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090412_money_drugs_and_guns/mexico-money-drugs-and-guns/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090412_money_drugs_and_guns/mexico-money-drugs-and-guns/ 00:23:00Z Roberto De Vido We’re the consumers and we’re supplying the money and guns, says Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon. Hard to argue with that! 2012-09-05T00:23:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090312_a_star_is_born/a-star-born/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090312_a_star_is_born/a-star-born/ 18:14:00Z Roberto De Vido Last week, Clint Eastwood debated a chair during the Republican National Convention. What will happen during this week’s Democratic National Convention? 2012-09-03T18:14:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090112_tale_of_two_sheriffs/a-tale-two-sheriffs/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/090112_tale_of_two_sheriffs/a-tale-two-sheriffs/ 07:18:00Z Roberto De Vido Friday was a big day for two high-profile Arizona sheriffs, as both Joe Arpiao and Paul Babeu were cleared of wrongdoing by federal and state investigators. 2012-09-01T07:18:50+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083112_clintandleonid/clint-and-leonid/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083112_clintandleonid/clint-and-leonid/ 00:24:00Z Roberto De Vido In which President Barack Obama hosts a conference call with Clint Eastwood, George W. Bush and Leonid Brezhnev. 2012-09-01T00:24:52+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083012_recipeforsuccess/romneys-recipe-success/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083012_recipeforsuccess/romneys-recipe-success/ 03:08:00Z Roberto De Vido Live from the Republican National Convention: The world according to Mitt Romney (and his speechwriters) ... in which the national debt originated on President Barack Obama’s inauguration day. And so on. 2012-08-31T03:08:57+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082912_gantiarabriela/gantiarabriela-politics-and-xenophobia/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082912_gantiarabriela/gantiarabriela-politics-and-xenophobia/ 15:12:00Z Roberto De Vido Get Van Morrison on the phone – according to Gabby “I’m On the Inside Now, So Let’s Lock The Door” Mercer, his “Brown Eyed Girl” was probably a Middle Eastern terrorist spy. 2012-08-29T15:12:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082812_buyingchrischristie/buying-chris-christie/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082812_buyingchrischristie/buying-chris-christie/ 17:16:00Z Roberto De Vido Chris Christie likes Mitt Romney for president. Want to know why? 2012-08-28T17:16:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082412_joker_mitt/the-joker/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082412_joker_mitt/the-joker/ 14:29:00Z Roberto De Vido Mitt Romney’s a joker. Who knew? 2012-08-25T14:29:39+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081912_weshallneversurrender/wikileakss-assangewe-shall-never-surrender/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081912_weshallneversurrender/wikileakss-assangewe-shall-never-surrender/ 23:31:00Z Roberto De Vido WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, taking refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to the U.K., spoke to the media Sunday. 2012-08-19T23:31:36+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081812_20_percent/ryans-20-percent/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081812_20_percent/ryans-20-percent/ 23:06:00Z Roberto De Vido Romney sidekick Paul Ryan has released two years of tax returns (one more than the boss!), and he paid 20 percent in taxes in 2011. 2012-08-18T23:06:13+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081712_just_say_no/just-say-no/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081712_just_say_no/just-say-no/ 15:33:00Z Roberto De Vido The Obama campaign told Mitt Romney they would be satisfied if he released only five years of tax returns. Mitt laughed in their faces. 2012-08-18T15:33:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081512_the_jokers/the-jokers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081512_the_jokers/the-jokers/ 21:20:00Z Roberto De Vido Mitt Romney is hoping the addition of Paul Ryan to the campaign ticket will distract the media (and voters) from his refusal to release a substantive tax return history. Will it work? 2012-08-15T21:20:38+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081212_campaign_wave/romney-ryan-campaign-wave/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081212_campaign_wave/romney-ryan-campaign-wave/ 22:15:00Z Roberto De Vido We’re at the very start of the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan road trip buddy movie. We’ll laugh! We’ll cry. Will it be better than “Cats”? Time will tell. 2012-08-12T22:15:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081112_choosing_paul_ryan/choosing-paul-ryan/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/081112_choosing_paul_ryan/choosing-paul-ryan/ 00:06:00Z Roberto De Vido Mitt Romney has announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate in the presidential election campaign. 2012-08-12T00:06:05+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080912_the_obama_haters/the-obama-haters/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080912_the_obama_haters/the-obama-haters/ 15:59:00Z Roberto De Vido Vote Romney. Because you don’t really mind if you know the results of the yachting before they’re broadcast. 2012-08-10T15:59:57+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080612_taking_a_dive/taking-dive/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080612_taking_a_dive/taking-dive/ 18:02:00Z Roberto De Vido Think it’s easy being plucked from the bosom of your family at age six and trained to be a gold-medal winning Olympic diver? Think again. 2012-08-06T18:02:11+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080112_fifty/fifty/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080112_fifty/fifty/ 20:40:00Z Roberto De Vido Pueblo Magnet High School Principal Vivi Watt believes in “do overs” for students who fail. TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone thinks they should study. 2012-08-01T20:40:55+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/073112_the_seat_fillers/olympic-seat-fillers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/073112_the_seat_fillers/olympic-seat-fillers/ 16:05:00Z Roberto De Vido It’s the age-old problem for an Olympic organizer: how to fill the seats for events few people are interested in. 2012-08-01T16:05:06+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072712_queenrogge/olympic-openings-queen-and-mr-rogge/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072712_queenrogge/olympic-openings-queen-and-mr-rogge/ 04:31:00Z Roberto De Vido Let the Games begin. By which we mean, let’s get the opening ceremony over with and start the competition. 2012-07-28T04:31:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072612_foreignpolicycred/romney-shows-off-foreign-policy-creds/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072612_foreignpolicycred/romney-shows-off-foreign-policy-creds/ 01:54:00Z Roberto De Vido Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is on the road, building his foreign policy credentials, or the appearance of them. 2012-07-27T01:54:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072412_whitehouse/the-white-house/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/072412_whitehouse/the-white-house/ 16:20:00Z Roberto De Vido We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage. Except those of us who are not, in this great melting pot of a nation. 2012-07-25T16:20:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071912_war_music/whats-goin-pentagon/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071912_war_music/whats-goin-pentagon/ 01:03:00Z Roberto De Vido Ten years, four billion dollars. That’s the cost of what’s on the Pentagon’s iPod. 2012-07-20T01:03:57+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071812_boyscouts/the-boy-scout-oath-homophobia/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071812_boyscouts/the-boy-scout-oath-homophobia/ 22:15:00Z Roberto De Vido The Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday it is affirming its ban on gay members, following a secret two-year review of the policy. 2012-07-18T22:15:22+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071512_social_media_darwinism/gabby-mercer-tripped-up-by-social-media-darwinism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071512_social_media_darwinism/gabby-mercer-tripped-up-by-social-media-darwinism/ 04:25:00Z Roberto De Vido On Sunday night, Republican CD3 congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer posted a snide comment on her Facebook page, comparing food stamp recipients to animals. Perhaps her “base” loved it. Others did not. 2012-07-16T04:25:41+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071112_romney_naacp/white-bread/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071112_romney_naacp/white-bread/ 00:26:00Z Roberto De Vido Tuesday, Mitt Romney tried to make his case at the NAACP’s national convention. 2012-07-12T00:26:42+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071012_farm_bill_comic/farm-bill-putting-our-foot-down/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071012_farm_bill_comic/farm-bill-putting-our-foot-down/ 16:47:00Z Matt Davies A revamped Farm Bill, scheduled for a vote this week, is set to cut $35 billion from the food stamp program. “One in seven Americans receive what we used to call food stamps. The figure is higher in Arizona, where one in three children – more than 466,000 – are considered ‘food insecure,” said U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva. 2012-07-10T16:47:35+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/070812_cruisecontrol/cruise-control-moving-on/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/070812_cruisecontrol/cruise-control-moving-on/ 20:50:00Z Roberto De Vido If you’ve stood in a supermarket checkout line recently, you’ll have read the news: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce. 2012-07-08T20:50:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070412_bisonboson/physics-101-higgs-boson-vs-teds-bison/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070412_bisonboson/physics-101-higgs-boson-vs-teds-bison/ 22:31:00Z Roberto De Vido In the news this week is the hunt for the so-called “God particle”, the Higgs boson. 2012-07-04T22:31:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070312_anderson/anderson-cooper-1968/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070312_anderson/anderson-cooper-1968/ 21:32:00Z Roberto De Vido Anderson Cooper, in the news ... 2012-07-03T21:32:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/062612_justice/sb-1070-ruling-win-win/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/062612_justice/sb-1070-ruling-win-win/ 14:13:00Z Roberto De Vido We’ve been able to pull back the curtain and show how the SCOTUS sausage is made. The ruling Monday was a classic “win-win” situation: both sides called it a win. 2012-06-26T14:13:27+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061912_syriana/syriana/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061912_syriana/syriana/ 00:59:00Z Roberto De Vido Topping today’s overseas news is the about-face done by a Russian ship allegedly carrying attack helicopters destined for Syria, where they would presumably be used to prop up the regime. 2012-06-20T00:59:49+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061812_the_road_to_london/the-road-london-olympics/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061812_the_road_to_london/the-road-london-olympics/ 05:13:00Z Roberto De Vido Thirty-eight days until the Olympic Games begin ... 2012-06-19T05:13:50+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061612_lancearmstrongusada/apple-pie-and-lance-armstrong/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061612_lancearmstrongusada/apple-pie-and-lance-armstrong/ 09:49:00Z Roberto De Vido Off his seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong can’t seem to shake his pursuers ... the ones who want him to admit he used performance-enhancing drugs. 2012-06-16T09:49:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061212_taleoftwo_candidates/a-tale-two-candidates/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061212_taleoftwo_candidates/a-tale-two-candidates/ 06:17:00Z Roberto De Vido Jesse, Jesse, Jesse ... you probably shouldn’t have said those things you said about Social Security and Medicare. All politics is local. 2012-06-12T06:17:34+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061112_homeland_security_oracle/suspicious-packages-homeland-security/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061112_homeland_security_oracle/suspicious-packages-homeland-security/ 00:00:00Z Roberto De Vido “Suspicious packages” were delivered to the offices of the Department of Homeland Security on Oracle Road. But everything turned out OK. 2012-06-12T00:00:24+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060412_vicepresidentialblues/vice-presidential-blues/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/060412_vicepresidentialblues/vice-presidential-blues/ 13:30:00Z Roberto De Vido In honor of National Doughnut Day, which was Friday. 2012-06-04T13:30:17+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052912_heading_for_exits/heading-exits/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052912_heading_for_exits/heading-exits/ 14:47:00Z Roberto De Vido The last U.S. and NATO troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014. With very little to show for their efforts ... 2012-05-29T14:47:32+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052812_playgrounds/sugar-addicts-new-playground-todays-kids/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052812_playgrounds/sugar-addicts-new-playground-todays-kids/ 05:46:00Z Matt Davies Thanks to the powerful corporate food lobby, children’s sugar addiction has them swinging toward juvenile diabetes while they slide from obesity to heart disease. 2012-05-29T05:46:12+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052612_oil_slick_jesse/oil-slick-jesse/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052612_oil_slick_jesse/oil-slick-jesse/ 21:14:00Z Roberto De Vido Just because you say it, doesn’t make it true, Jesse. 2012-05-26T21:14:37+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052512_beingjessekelly/being-jesse-kelly/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052512_beingjessekelly/being-jesse-kelly/ 03:34:00Z Roberto De Vido John Ellinwood. Helping cartoonists put food on the table since 2012. 2012-05-26T03:34:47+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052212_summitsmanship/summitsmanship/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052212_summitsmanship/summitsmanship/ 14:16:00Z Roberto De Vido President Obama and Chancellor Merkel have a bit of fun at the expense of Prime Minister Cameron. 2012-05-22T14:16:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052012_statedinner/state-dinner/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052012_statedinner/state-dinner/ 23:04:00Z Roberto De Vido At Camp David, a summit runs on its stomach. 2012-05-20T23:04:28+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051712_facebookipo/the-facebook/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051712_facebookipo/the-facebook/ 00:38:00Z Roberto De Vido Anyway, Facebook shares will be priced at $38, valuing the company at $104 billion. 2012-05-18T00:38:00+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051412_time_magazine_greece/meanwhile-greece/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051412_time_magazine_greece/meanwhile-greece/ 16:21:00Z Roberto De Vido While Greece continues to circle the drain, Time magazine focuses elsewhere ... 2012-05-14T16:21:54+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051012_talk_about_greece/romney-talk-greece/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/051012_talk_about_greece/romney-talk-greece/ 23:59:00Z Roberto De Vido Mitt Romney must be so frustrated ... an endorsement of gay marriage should be the electoral kiss of death, yet President Obama has pissed off only those who hated him already. 2012-05-10T23:59:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050912_obama_mans_up/obama-mans-up-gay-marriage/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050912_obama_mans_up/obama-mans-up-gay-marriage/ 14:16:00Z Roberto De Vido Half of Americans support gay marriage. And of course, half don’t. But that’s the same for every issue. So why not say what you think? Well done, Mr. President. 2012-05-10T14:16:17+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050812_eastofaden/war-terror-east-aden/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050812_eastofaden/war-terror-east-aden/ 03:38:00Z Roberto De Vido A would-be al-Qaeda suicide bomber was in fact a Saudi Arabian intelligence operative who turned over the bomb to his agency and the CIA. 2012-05-09T03:38:23+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050812_underwearbomb/1-800-happy-2cu/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050812_underwearbomb/1-800-happy-2cu/ 14:14:00Z Roberto De Vido In War on Terror news, another pair of exploding tighty whities have been captured, making the world a safer place. 2012-05-08T14:14:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050712_flex_patriotism/flexible-patriotism/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050712_flex_patriotism/flexible-patriotism/ 15:56:00Z Matt Davies Where do U.S. corporations put their allegiance? 2012-05-07T15:56:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050512_forward/forward/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050512_forward/forward/ 04:15:00Z Roberto De Vido “Forward.” Someone probably got paid (well) to think that one up. 2012-05-06T04:15:44+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050512_lookinforlove/lookin-love/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050512_lookinforlove/lookin-love/ 16:05:00Z Roberto De Vido Who is Chen Guangcheng? Just another blind Chinese dissident lawyer ... lookin’ for love. 2012-05-05T16:05:40+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050312_blind_justice/blind-justice-china/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050312_blind_justice/blind-justice-china/ 23:33:00Z Roberto De Vido Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng sought refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, but later, perhaps bowing to pressure from China, he left the embassy grounds. 2012-05-03T23:33:54+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050112_the_carterschool/the-carter-school/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/050112_the_carterschool/the-carter-school/ 14:56:00Z Roberto De Vido “Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.” 2012-05-01T14:56:14+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043012_dishonored_vets/dishonored-veterans-band-plays-on/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/043012_dishonored_vets/dishonored-veterans-band-plays-on/ 17:32:00Z Matt Davies Homelessness, untreated PTSD, suicides: How we play “Taps” for our veterans. 2012-04-30T17:32:13+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042812_lapolitique/la-politique/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042812_lapolitique/la-politique/ 16:58:00Z Roberto De Vido French president Nicolas Sarkozy is staring down the barrel of the electoral gun, an underdog going into next month’s second-round presidential election vote. 2012-04-28T16:58:03+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042312_new_world_order/immigration-new-world-order/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/042312_new_world_order/immigration-new-world-order/ 04:14:00Z Roberto De Vido Was it something we said? For the first time since The Great Depression, more Mexicans are leaving the United States than entering. 2012-04-24T04:14:48+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041712_closeprotection/close-protection/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041712_closeprotection/close-protection/ 14:15:00Z Roberto De Vido What happens in Cartagena stays in Cartagena ... until you decide to stiff the hookers and they complain. Loudly. To (eventually) your boss. The President. Of the United States. 2012-04-17T14:15:08+00:00