In Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, Michael Ramirez, the internationally known editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily, offers a comprehensive collection of his award-winning cartoons, accompanied by an introduction to the images highlighted throughout the book. Each cartoon shows that a picture is worth a thousand words and transforms the news of the day into eye-catching, provocative, and hilarious images that draw people into the democratic process. His commentary on everything from the economy and markets to politics and international affairs offers a unique perspective on today's issues.

Michael Ramirez is a senior editor and the editorial cartoonist
for Investor's Business Daily's editorial page, "Issues &
Insights." He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial
Cartooning in 1994 and again in 2008. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow
and has won almost every major journalism award throughout his
career, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award in 1995, 1997, and
2007,the National Journalism Award in 2006, and the H.L. Mencken
Award for Best Cartoon in 1996. He is an honorary member of Pi
Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society and is the
recipient of the prestigious UCI Medal from the University of
California, Irvine, and is a highly acclaimed international
speaker. He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles
Times, the Commercial Appeal, and USA Today, and is nationally
syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.

Foreword by Dr. William J. Bennett xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

The 2008 Pulitzer Collection 1

Moral Values 23

Hollywood 35

Domestic Affairs 51

Economics 89

Politics 115

Elections 139

World Affairs 163

The Middle East 189

September 11 201

War 217

The 1994 Pulitzer Collection 239

Backword by Stan Freberg 257