The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
I keep wondering what kind of country we’re living in, where we spend more than twice that of any other civilized country on health care costs and end up rated last among those countries in health care delivered. I wonder why so
I find it nothing short of disgusting that Jack Gerard, the president of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil businesses chief lobbying tool, has the gall to threaten the President of the United States if he doesn’t vote the right, and I
The Newtish one really screwed the pooch on Meet the Press, when he accused President Obama of being at war with the Catholic Church. It seems that the Newted thing, joined later by the other GOP candidates, took a quote from Cardinal
Income inequality is grinding down the middle class and threatens to create a permanent underclass of able but jobless people. The financial sector in collusion with regulators and elected officials inflated and profited from the credit card bubble and then watched it
I have gotten a lot of feedback stating that I am overreacting, re: Obama signing away our individual freedoms by signing the National Defense Authorization Act. Fair enough. But lets take a look at just one scenario that is also in the
The Democrats have the best plans but the Republicans have a better information delivery system in almost all policy debates. If you listen to Paul Ryan speak about health insurance you realize that he is a terrific speaker with a facility for