WikiLeaks cartoon

      This is a cartoon showing a mouse going through a file cabinet and important documents are coming out.  Also, that is a representation of 9/11 and how the World Trade Centers were brought down. In addition, the real representation is of how the U.S. had a lot of it's international affairs and documents leaked onto this website, that basically is showing most of our past international affairs that have been secret since 2000.

St. Louis Most Dabgerous City

      St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday.  The CQ Press concluded that St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. Louis beat out Camden, which topped last year's list and was the most dangerous city for 2003 and 2004.  Detroit and Flint, Mich., and Oakland, Calif., rounded out the top five.  The annual rankings are based on population figures and crime data compiled by the FBI.  Which some have found to be slightly irrational.
    
     Erica Van Ross, spokeswoman for the St. Louis Police Department, said, "Crime is based on a variety of factors. It's based on geography, it's based on poverty, it's based on the economy".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101122/ap_on_re_us/us_dangerous_cities

Passenger Searching

      This is a cartoon of a passenger being searched and a plane crash.  The importance is searching innocent passengers might save us from having another tragedy like 9/11.  Even though people are frustrated, there have been no more crashes.  

Evacuating Troops

     In this cartoon, Obama is with some of the military leaders.  They addressing leaving afghanistan, and he says we'll postpone it until the next administration.  Which means Obama is gonna do what Bush and previous presidents have done when it comes to evacuating troops from foreign countries; that is just have the next president do something about it.

GOP & Obama

           In this cartoon, Obama is cleaning up excremete from the GOP elephant.  And, Obama is saying that cleaning up after the elephant is basically what he's going to be doing for the next two years.  To me, this means that the Republicans aren't going to let Obama pass any laws or have any control since the GOP controls the house.



Army enlists first Sikh since 1984

              The U.S. Army has graduated its first Sikh (seek) enlisted man in a generation after granting a rare religious exemption for his turban and beard because the military needs his language skills.  Army policies since 1984 had effectively prevented Sikhs from enlisting by barring those items.  Spc. Simran Lamba was recruited under a special program seeking speakers of two Indian languages, Hindi and Punjabi.  He became a U.S. citizen on Wednesday and hopes to become a combat medic.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=22972105

Democrats & Republicans compromise

      This political cartoon show the republican party resoluting with the Democratic party which is beat up and tired.  Also, there is a pig that can fly which represents "Pigs can Fly".  Because the cartoon is basically saying the day Republicans and Democrats put their differences aside and actually think about the country; pigs will fly.