David Horsey
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey is a political commentator for the Los Angeles Times. His Top of the Ticket blog is one of the frequently visited features on LATIMES.com. David's work has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and MSNBC.com.
Besides winning two Pulitzers for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1999 and 2003, Horsey has received the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award for Cartoonist of the Year and many other honors, including first place in the Best of the West Journalism Competition for his columns about the 2008 presidential election.
After graduating from the University of Washington, Horsey entered journalism as a political reporter. His multifaceted career has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries, the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, assignments in Europe, Japan and Mexico, and two extended stints working at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau.
As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Seattle University.
Horsey has published seven books of cartoons, including his two most recent, Draw Quick, Shoot Straight and From Hanging Chad to Baghdad.
For escape, he spends a few weeks each year working as a cowboy in Montana.
David Horsey Samples
What happens if Supreme Court throws out the baby, too?
It’s no surprise that professional pundits are shocked that the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears ready to toss out the entire federal health care plan — the plan Republicans delight in calling “Obamacare.” Self-proclaimed experts are often wrong, though that does not slow down their relentless prognostications and chatter.
And it will be no surprise that conservatives who decry judicial activism will cheer the justices if they choose to engage in decidedly bold judicial activism by nullifying a major piece of legislation passed and approved by democratically elected members of the legislative and executive branches of government. (And, yes, it qualifies as activism if, for the first time since 1936, a major federal regulatory law is killed by the court.) ...
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