The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Donald Trump announced that he would close down his charitable foundation to avoid conflict of interest charges. How about to avoid going to jail? The foundation has been under intense investigation for using its funds to pay for $258,000 in corporate
There are two basic elements to the coalition, which voted Trump into office in November; First is the blue-collar base, the out of work middle-aged white guys that have been lied to by Republican politicians since the 1980s. They can now
There is only one way to drag this country up out of the economic mire into which it has allowed itself to sink. First we have to tax the hell out of the rich. They are the ones who have the
Fareed Zakaria asks the great ISIS question: Why do they hate us? The answer is very simple. They don’t, at least not just us. Islamic terrorists have been killing people all over the world for the last two centuries. In fact, most
So, after being dumb enough to vote a bunch of Tea Party hacks into the House over two elections, after finding that all the GOP promises did nothing but crash the economy under Bush and after discovering that a Republican congress
So, we’re a couple of weeks into the Trump pre-administration and we’ve had a chance to take a quick look at what he sees as his cabinet. Yeah, it’s pretty grim. Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that the people Trump is
A couple of days back, Donald Trump, not my favorite president-elect, took a congratulatory call from the President of Taiwan. Most people would say, what’s the big deal but it seems to have ruffled a hell of a lot of feathers both
One of the biggest failures of the Obama administration has been its inability to create a much needed infrastructure bill. It never happened because a Republican congress wouldn’t let anything happen that might look good in the Obama legacy. Should that
Jeff Sessions must not be confirmed as AG. This man is the antithesis of everything that it means to be an American. He is a confirmed bigot and an overt racist, a favorite of KKK leader David Duke, who praised Sessions
The battle going on in North Dakota over another unnecessary pipeline has finally heated up to the point where real human damage has been done and much more serious retaliation is eminent. The latest about to join the pipeline demonstrators are a