The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
A five hundred million dollar training program to put together an Iraqi army to fight ISIS has yielded, by the admission of the American general staff, about five or six functioning fighters. Five or six? The only answer to incompetence like
For eleven hours on October 22, 2015, former, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sat before a committee of mostly Republicans, whose only goal was trying to make her look bad before the nation. This was simply because she had the temerity
There are really only two big questions to be answered by the candidates in the 2016 election. The first is how do we get the rest of the country back to work and the second is how do we get
Wow! Who’d a thought it? Just when the GOP was getting some traction in their phony attacks on Hillary Clinton for Benghazi and emails, the clown who was maneuvering for the third most important job in the country, brags, in
Naguin Sawiris, a Coptic Christian, is Egypt’s third richest man. He is showing the world the right way to spend money. He wants to buy an island and house between one and two hundred thousand refugees there. It’s a complicated deal but
The violence in Oregon has generated all the expected noise and all of it is about the wrong solution. Everyone wants to blame the whole problem on crazy people because that’s easy. They all speak about background checks as if that
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
There has been a great deal of speculation over the comparison between Bibi Netanyahu’s address to congress and that of Pope Francis. In fact there is very little to compare. Netanyahu’s address was a political sales pitch fostered by the leaders