The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The refusal of the Republican dominated House to consider the desperately needed Hurricane Sandy aid bill was just another example of the Republican Party not getting it. Here was a chance for the, much maligned party to rise above the
Just when you think the gun nuts have reached the apogee of idiocy a new challenger steps into the ring. Who would have thought, after the catastrophe of 2010 that there would be an electorate dumb enough to vote another Tea
Well the Governor of New York has already jumped in and the President is now deeply embroiled in the gun issue so it’s time for all of us to pick a side and start shooting. First let’s look at
In 2012 the chief aggression against the US military in Afghanistan was brought by Afghan troops who were supposedly on our side. What could possibly have caused such a phenomenon to develop? Think about it. For twelve years we have been occupying
The up and coming fight over the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense should be a neat one. The Republican’s have drawn up their full neo-com battery of complaints and complainers in a pre-nomination attempt to influence the
Kristen Gillibrand, the Democratic senator who has been making noises about wanting to run for Mayor of NY has a very appealing energy policy that she has just published. It isn’t perfect, and sometimes it is imprecise but at
No wonder northerners think of southerners as being retarded. Down in good ole Kentucky, they have a clown named Tom Riner, a state senator and also a Baptist minister who has managed to get a law on the books that
If you have any doubts about the rich and powerful taking over the political systems of not only America but the whole world, the front page of the NY Times on Monday Dec. 3rd will surely put them to rest.
In part 1 of this discourse, we indicated a few areas where the government could acquire additional funds that would help with the country’s expenses and also help lower the deficit. But funding alone won’t do the trick. As the Republican’s