This cartoon addresses the protests in Wisconsin against Governor Scott Walker, and his attempts to use budget difficulties as a jumping-off point to kill off public employees’ unions in the state…
This piece addresses the White House’s recently released Federal budget proposal, and how the squeeze is being put on programs that benefit the middle class and the poor in order to satisfy the demands of the defense budget, and the tax cut “compromise” made between the President and the GOP to continue giving tax breaks to the wealthy…
I remembered the painting Liberty Leading the People, by French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, and thought that it’d adapt well to the modern subject matter, since there seemed to be some parallels between the French revolutions of the 18th/19th centuries, and the protests happening throughout the Middle East today…
Obviously, there’s a lot going on in the news right now that’s worthy of commentary. I had a few ideas following responses to the State of the Union, but haven’t gone ahead with them both because I’m dealing with an issue of uncertainty concerning my housing, and because I feel the news coming out of Egypt at the moment is more important…
