Thursday, April 25, 2013 Published Weekday Mornings   To see the full version of today's cartoon, click on the preview graphic of the cartoon (below the Commentary) to be taken to the full version in your favorite web browser. Sequester Effects Flights Delayed Amid Furloughs of Air Controllers Fliers grow frustrated over furlough-related delays In Flight Delays, Cable Finally Finds A Sequestration Story Worth Covering Senators Seek Way to Ease FAA Cuts Major govt. contractors report little damage from sequestration, so far White House Likes Reid's Plan to Delay Sequester Cuts Flashback: Republicans will own economic damage done by sequester Boston Aftermath Officer's Killing Spurred Pursuit in Boston Attack Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place CIA asked that bomber be put on terror watch list more than a year before attacks What We Know About the Tsarnaev Brothers' Guns Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Friend & Teacher Misha, the Bombings' Mystery Man Suspects' mother regrets ever moving to US, both parents to travel to back to see surviving son E.J. Dionne: After the Boston bombings, a rush to judgment Texas Cleanup Quick evacuation likely saved lives in Texas blast Pres. Obama to honor firefighters killed in Texas fertilizer blast Guns & America GE Capital Cuts Off Lending to Gun Shops Poll: GOP Senator Ayotte's Approval Rating Under Water After Voting No On Gun Bill The Gun-Vote Backlash Has Only Just Begun Greg Sargent: On guns, Dems hold the sensible middle ground Senate Democrats eye background checks for explosive powder People On FBI's Terrorism Watch List Legally Bought Guns And Explosives 1,300 Times Between 2004 & 2010 Idaho 3-year-old girl shoots infant sibling in the face High-end assault rifles being manufactured in Florida pot grow house War on Women Anti-Choice Activist: Shooting Abortion Providers 'Will Be A Blessing To The Babies' Black female lawmakers walk out of Florida House over racial arguments made for abortion bill Marriage Equality Rhode Island Becomes 10th State To Approve Marriage Equality Delaware House approves bill legalizing same-sex marriage, measure now goes to Senate Energy, Climate & Environment Fuel Barges Explode On River in Mobile, Alabama, Injuring 3 Repeal of Renewable-Energy Mandate Fails in North Carolina Brad Plumer: If Keystone XL gets blocked, can trains save Canada's tar sands? Experts: Coming tax debate on Capitol Hill will lay building blocks on energy taxes Nations In Turmoil Syrian rebels launch attack in central Hama after months of calm Kurdish rebel group PKK sets date for withdrawal from Turkey With Air Attacks, Sectarian Strife Intensifies in Iraq Iraqi PM Maliki warns against 'sectarian (civil) war' The War Over There Guant�namo Prison Revolt Driven by Inmates' Despair National Politics Bush Library Event Brings Five Living Presidents to Dallas 8 Things You Won't See At The George W. Bush Presidential Library 50 Reasons Americans Despise George W. Bush's Presidency The White House Correspondents' Dinner and the startling ascendance of nerd culture Midwest Roundup Still smarting from Facebook loss, Nebraska lawmakers look to land wind farm Neb. farmers could receive $10M to offset losses due to irrigation restrictions Iowa State GOP Senator Joni Ernst considers bid for U.S. Senate A Half-Assed Nation    We apologize if we seem a bit rushed today, as some members of our staff are headed to a very important event this weekend - which means we won't be publishing a Friday edition tomorrow. Even if we are cutting short our publication schedule this week, we try to never half-ass what we do for you. As we've mentioned many times over the years, we firmly believe that anything worth doing is worth doing well - an axiom that sadly not everyone in America still believes in. From the half-assed investigation of the ricin-poisoned letters in Mississippi, to the half-assed gun safety vote in the Senate - which now appears to be seriously harming some Senators - America seems to be filled with people who seem more than proud to do less than enough. Our bass-ackwards U.S. transportation system is a perfect example of that problem right now. When the sequester began to loom back in February, we said then - referring to hard facts from Ezra Klein, Ed Kilgore, Chris Hayes and other knowledgable pundits - that the outcome of sequestration was not going to be good, and that the resulting effects of the across the board cuts were not going to make Americans happy. This was also what the Obama Administration was saying back then, even though many members of the media only half-assed their coverage of the President's warning. In fact... To continue reading... click here. And now, for your Daily Felltoon preview for April 25, 2013 (Click the preview cartoon above to see the full version of the cartoon) Jobs & The Economy Jobless claims fall, labor market recovery advances | Just Four Lawmakers - All Democrats - Show Up To Congressional Hearing On Long-Term Unemployment Wall Street Watch Janet L. Yellen, Possible Fed Successor, Has Admirers and Foes Gold has worst two-day rout in 30 years, stocks drop The Euro Zone Britain avoids recession with faster than expected growth Spanish unemployment rate hits record high Immigration: Reform Coming Immigration Bill's Future Uncertain in House House GOP lawmakers pull immigration to the right Adam Serwer: The Immigration Bill's Forced-Labor Problem Sierra Club decides to support immigration reform House Democrats get immigration briefing update today Health Care Checkup House GOP leadership suffers a humiliating legislative setback House delays vote on ObamaCare in face of conservative discontent Ezra Klein: Republicans Will Clobber Obamacare Until They Hug It With health law looming, one large insurer wants a 25% premium hike How one mistaken vote killed Montana's Medicaid expansion Ethics & The Media Boston Bombing Media Poll Finds Good Ratings Overall, Lower Believability For CNN CNN Implements 'Checks And Balances' After Boston Arrest Error Communications Breakdown Federal Regulators Examine Trading Stability After Twitter Hoax Twitter Now Has a Two-Step Solution To Security Issues, In Development (Not Yet Released To The Public) It's Your Cap News Toon for April 25, 2013 (Click the preview cartoon above to see the full version of the cartoon) White House Update President Obama: If daughters get tattoos, we will too Sen. Harkin has a hold on Obama's Medicare pick. What gives? International News South Korea seeks talks with North to reopen industrial zone Workers protest in Bangladesh over factory deaths News From Capitol Hill By unanimous vote, Senate confirms Sylvia Mathews Burwell as next OMB director Bipartisan group of lawmakers float renewable energy finance bill | Senate panel backs Obama nominee for Medicare/Medicaid chief House liberals demand meeting with President Obama on Chained CPI proposal On The Left Ezra Klein: George W. Bush wasn't dumb, but he was still a bad president | Justin Green: Do Democrats Really Want to Make Guns a Litmus Test Issue? On The Right House Majority Leader Cantor's Quest to Soften G.O.P.'s Image Hits a Wall Secret Tape: Top GOP Consultant Luntz Calls Rush Limbaugh "Problematic" For GOP Republican Tom Cotton Makes Odd 'Except for 9/11' Argument | Steve Kush, New Mexico GOP Official, Calls 19-Year-Old Labor Advocate 'A Radical B*tch' Steve Benen: The befuddled Beck wing of today's GOP Dana Milbank: GOP Fight Club on Capitol Hill We hope you enjoy "The Daily Felltoon" every business day. Thanks for continuing to be a member! Paul Fell Shawn "Smith" Peirce Paul Fell Cartoons, Inc.