I thought I’d draw a quick, easy, handy guide to the current Middle East incursion’s myriad of factions, interests, allegiances, feuds and other enigmas.
More weapons shipments to the Middle East. That can’t possibly present a further problem in the future that we might need to address with another weapons shipment.
Apparently immigrants aren’t the only ones trying to make a better life for themselves on the other side.
President Barack Obama said Saturday that the surge of immigrant children entering the U.S. illegally changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration and led him to put off a pledge to use executive action that could shield millions of people from deportation.
Immigration reform advocates criticized Obama after White House officials said that the president would not act at summer’s end as he promised in June but would take up the matter after the midterm elections in November.
In an interview taped for NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama rejected the charge that the delay was meant to protect Democratic candidates worried that his actions would hurt their prospects in tough Senate races.
In between orientation, learning my way around the building, a conference call with Governor Cuomo and locating the coffee machine, I managed to create my very first cartoon for Newsday.
The President is oft accused of overreach by his political opponents, and I obviously see some irony in that two-way street.
I’m looking forward to weighing in on a whole host of international, national and local issues, starting tomorrow!
