While the right wing hard-liners in Congress are clinging to the past and saber rattling in the direction of Iran, the leader of the right wing hard-liners in Iran is doing the same thing in the direction of the US. They appear to understand one another very, very well.
Clinton HQ has confirmed what everyone on Earth already knew. With a few temporary career diversions, Hillary has been eyeing a return to the White House since she and Bill left in 2001. While long, drawn-out campaigns may not be good for the nation, they are wonderful for a cartoonist.
A fun part of drawing political cartoons is ascertaining who the bad guy is, then taking aim. For decades, Iran has earned its global villain status, but old enemies shouldn’t get in the way of recognizing an opportunity to change. Vladimir Putin is also a cartoon-worthy villain, but he actually has nukes.
The spirit of Indiana’s new law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, codifies discrimination against LGBT people in places of business. I imagine – or hope – there are precious few business people in Indiana clamoring for such protection. This is really just the shrill warning sirens of Governor Mike Pence’s pandering to the Tea Party wing of the Republican party as he unscrupulously positions himself for a run for the White House. With national boycotts of Indiana picking up momentum, the people of the state will now pay an astonishingly high price for Pence’s misplaced ambition.
Mideast policy was so much easier when all it had to do was demonize Saddam, Khomeini and Qaddafi etc..
As a student, I had a couple of amazing, transformative teachers, and a fair number of OK ones. But the thought of a certain few can still make me break into a cold sweat. School administrators could have eyed my caricature-filled notebooks at the time to obtain some extremely accurate teacher evaluations.
To the casual Albany watcher, it can be striking how political positions on issues can be so, um, “inconsistent.”
After loudly accusing other actors on the mideast stage “untrustworthy,” Bibi Netanyahu’s flip-flop on a Palestinian state was the fastest and most brazen piece of voter manipulation I’ve seen in years.
Pentachlorophenol is the toxic preservative that a large percentage of the poles that carry Long Island’s wires are soaked in. It gives the wood a green appearance, which is interesting, as other various toxins are used to help green up a lawn too! Though I’m sure all those chemicals will all just go away, and not leach through the soil and into the water table.
To create an editorial cartoon is to take the serious and point out the folly within. In the case of the president’s Secret Service detail, who allegedly partied, drove drunk through a cordoned-off White House barrier and over a mysterious package being investigated as a possible bomb, the cartoonist’s work has already been done.
