The Budget Mess- Pt 1
Now that the election is over, the Fiscal Cliff has become the big topic of discussion and controversy. It would seem that Obama and Boehner, if left to their own devices, would be able to hack something out that would,
The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Now that the election is over, the Fiscal Cliff has become the big topic of discussion and controversy. It would seem that Obama and Boehner, if left to their own devices, would be able to hack something out that would,
I am as much against many of the new and proposed laws controlling our freedom of speech and movement as any one else on the planet but I am also against what has become the newest defense of various
Well, the Republican pundits have stopped braying about how we should get off all the small stuff and get on the big job of creating jobs. They obviously felt that way during the election because Obama’s record on it
A few weeks ago, I received a letter from the president of the University of Notre Dame, from which I graduated over fifty years ago. I get the impression that the letter had been sent to all contributing alumni. I
This Friday the nation was shocked by a horrifying crime. Those of you who have read this column for any length of time know that I am an adamant advocate of serious gun control. This despite the fact that for
There has been a lot of discussion, mosty on the Right, about cutting down the size of government. It’s a pretty senseless argument because anyone who has reached the age of seven should be able to understand why we need
Looking back, now that it’s all over, one sees an inevitability in what happened in the recent presidential election. I find it hilarious that a good cross-section of Republicans are now attacking Romney almost as viciously as they did Obama before
The Republicans love to run up the flag by attacking Obama about his supposedly apologizing to foreign countries about America. Well, sometimes we need to apologize for the dumb and antagonistic things we do but what Obama has really been
The latest massacre in Colorado has not and will not make any impression on what remains of the gun debate. We are a warlike nation of killers and we will remain that way regardless of how many psychos mow down our