The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
When given a moment to explain why he has stumbled so clumsily around the Trump problem he faces in this election, Paul Ryan talks of inclusiveness, a subject, about which his party knows nothing. The GOP is all about the exclusive few
Paul Ryan explains his grudging support for Donald Trump as giving people a better path forward. Neither Trump nor his party has ever done that and it doesn’t look like Trump will be changing on that anytime soon. The only path
This week, Jim Hines a Democratic congressman from CT. interrupted a moment of silence aimed at honoring the victims of the Orlando massacre and set out on a 15 hour filibuster trying to wake up the congress and have them actually do
There is a lot of noise being made lately about a heroin epidemic, The question this brouhaha brings to the mind is; is it real or is it a tool being used by big corporations to keep the ball rolling? Is
Guns do kill people and if you are one of the simplistic geniuses who made up that cute little slogan about people doing the killing, you are not completely wrong, just without combat experience and grossly naïve. Picture the nutcase who mowed
Mitch McConnell proved today on national TV why he is nothing but a dead fish. This is a clown who spent the last eight years trying to foil Barak Obama, even as Obama beat his brains out in two Presidential elections. This
I have been meaning to start a column with this for weeks but every time I came close, it seemed that Bernie Sanders would abandon reality and refuse to retire from a field on which he had won great victories but was
For those of you who love to listen to Donald Trump rattle on about making America great again and how he’s going to rebuild our military to make it the greatest force in the world, a few facts could be in order