The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Millions of refugees are flooding into Europe. That’s more than Europe can handle even if all of the countries involved really do their part, which countries like Hungry and many others won’t. Nations around the world like the U.S. and Australia are
Everybody and his brother is calling for Obama to do something in Syria. What? Strangely no one has any idea of what to do except “engage”. Of course engagement stops as soon as someone asks – how?. No one wants to
Vladmir Putin was on 60 Minutes this weeend and he showed us that no matter what else he is, he is a leader. He understands what it is for a country to survive and he makes no excuses for what he
The nuclear treaty with Iran is now a done deal and a lot of people are ecstatic, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is happy with it, even a lot of people who haven’t read it yet. Of course, Bibi
The Greek crisis , though seemingly solved in the short term, goes on and on, fueled by an incredibly ignorant government and creditors who are sick of flushing money down a bottomless hole. It’s easy to see why this crisis has
Last week President Obama sent 450 more advisors into Iraq to achieve a goal that no one understands, or has any solution for. What the hell can 450 soldiers do that billions of spending haven’t done already. The problem with the
The discussion about the war in the Middle East goes on and on and on. Our right wing continues to push for boots on the ground, wanting to sacrifice more American kids so a bunch of religious fanatics can continue their endless
There’s a lot of noise being made over an extremist threat to our malls. Is this a real threat? Probably, but not on any kind of scale like 911 or like the threat that the terrorists present to the nations of
The issue of trust has been raised many times in conjunction with e-mail gate. Do you trust Hillary to edit her own e-mails? No, not unless you’re a naïve moron but, actually it doesn’t matter whether you trust her or
John McCain says that our closest allies in the Middle East no longer trust us and think that we are abandoning them for Iran. Well, maybe that’s not a bad thing, being as our closest allies in the Middle East, Israel