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Atomic Monkey - Lingle Malfunctions At Convention

Lingle appeared to be in distress before being wheeled off he stage by Lenny Klompus.

At last weekend's Republican Convention, U.S. Senatorial Candidate Linda Lingle seemed to suffer a catastrophic technical failure only five minutes into her prepared keynote speech. Just a few minutes into her dissertation on the need for more robotics-based industry in Hawaii a large patch of Ms Lingle face appeared to flop down.  At that point [...]

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May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Comics,Special Features | Read More »

Tel Aviv: History in the Making

From Jaffa, the Tel Aviv skyline spreads northward along the beach-lined Mediterranean coast.

Traveling With History  :      Tel Aviv:  Facing the Future With a Different Take on the Past    ©  pictures and text, Allan Seiden, 2012 It was on a sunny day in 1909, with Palestine a province of the Ottoman Empire, that a group of Jewish residents of the ancient port city of Jaffa, feeling [...]

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May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Special Features,Travel | Read More »

Love Made Visible - S/Sgt. Lewis G. Watkins, U.S. Marine Corps, Korean Conflict, Medal of Honor (1925-1952)

S/Sgt Lewis G. Watkins, USMC, Korea, Medal of Honor

BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D.  Lewis George Watkins was born on June 6, 1925 in Seneca, South Carolina. He graduated from Greenville High School, South Carolina in 1949. He was a member of the Greenville Police Department when he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on September 12, 1950. After training at Parris Island, [...]

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May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Heroes of the Pacific | Read More »

Pritchett's Pen: Pro-rail smear campaign unleashed on Ben Cayetano

Honolulu pro-rail smear monger cartoon
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May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Comics,John Pritchett Cartoons | Read More »

Atomic Monkey Toons

BenMud
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May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Comics,Special Features | Read More »

Pritchett's Pen: Obama milkin' it

Omaba cartoon, Obama milks the getting of Osama Bin Laden, Obama milking Bin Laden story
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May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Comics,John Pritchett Cartoons | Read More »

Subtle Write of Political Wrongs

J Arthur Rath

BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - I was walking from the Waikiki Public Library with a book of Lewis Carroll’s “Nonsense” poetry in my hands and saw Coconut Willee shuffling dejectedly past the Chinese Restaurant on the other side of Kapahulu Avenue.   “Hey Brah, I’ll cross over and buy you some coffee,” I called [...]

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April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Slice of Life, Hawaiian Style | Read More »

A MODERN HERO - Lt. Cmdr. Edward Henry O'Hare, U.S. Navy, WWII, Medal of Honor, (1914-1943)

Lt.Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O'Hare, U.S. Navy, WWII, Medal of Honor

  BY DUANE A. VACHON, PH.D.  Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare was born March 13, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri to Edward Joseph O'Hare and Selma O'Hare. Butch had two sisters, Patricia and Marilyn. When their parents divorced in 1927, Butch and his sisters stayed with their mother Selma in St. Louis while their father Edward [...]

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April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Heroes of the Pacific | Read More »

Willee Sings: “The Kapolei Choo-choo”

COCONUT WILLIE TRAIN

BY J. ARTHUR RATH - Willee Sings: “The Kapolei Choo-choo” I’m ready to be a singing conductor on Honolulu’s new train,” Coconut Willee said jauntily, standing under a tree at Waikiki’s Queen Surf restaurant. “Like my hat and train whistle puller?” “Archaic, but colorful,” I acknowledged. He was full of news: “Union workers are starting right [...]

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April 27th, 2012 | Posted in Slice of Life, Hawaiian Style | Read More »

Pritchett's Pen: Victoria's Secret Service

Cartoon about Secret Service prostitution scandal
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April 27th, 2012 | Posted in Comics,John Pritchett Cartoons | Read More »

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