The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Republican primaries came apart at the seams the other night with supposedly mature men who are running for the Presidency of the greatest nation in the world, squabbling like children in a schoolyard or punks on a street corner. But there
It seems unbelievable that Donald Trump was considered to have done okay in the latest series of debates. I don’t know what the pundits were watching. The debates I saw exposed Trump as a loud-mouthed bully who had no facts on
The President has submitted a budget that will get no votes from a Republican congress. They accuse him of playing to the progressive agenda and they are right. Of course the progressive agenda is the best one for the country and if
The big news of the weekend is the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. All the Republicans can talk about is the idea that he was a lion and a great justice. The Democrats, out of respect, have held their
So we had the primaries in New Hampshire the other night and there were very few surprises. Bernie beat Hillary, maybe by more than most people thought, and Trump led the GOP candidates by a good margin. Just about the only
The Democrats and Republicans had what we have been calling debates this week. The Democratic debate on Thursday night was possibly the most substantive, intelligently carried out debate ever heard in these parts. This and the last Democratic debate have been
So the Republicans have created a new crime with which to attack Hillary. It isn’t mass murder or genocide because if it were, they’d have to also accuse their war-mongering candidates, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. It isn’t destroying the environment,
Americans are suckers! Anyone with even the least credibility can say almost anything they like and a certain percentage of American readers or viewers will take it as gospel. It’s a disease, and more than anything else, it is ruining our
Donald Trump proved today, that like all other bullies, he is at heart, a coward. Fox News has announced that Megyn Kelly is going to be one of the moderators on tonight’s GOP debate. Last time out she asked Trump some
The Iran nuclear deal is set to be signed this week. It’s a deal that has been incorrectly attacked by the GOP for its entire gestating period. The International Nuclear Committee has agreed that all the terms of the agreement have