The Urban Curmudgeon
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A lot of discussion on This Week about Trump’s attitude toward the military and specifically about Tim Walz’ military service. Interestingly enough the whole discussion was overseen by Martha Raddatz whose work with the American military is well know to most viewers.
“Make America great again.” Sound familiar? Isn’t that the old slogan Trump used in his first campaign? That was years ago. Why are they still using it? Why didn’t he get that done in the four years he already had? What makes
Donald Trump and the GOP have spent so much time lying about the economy that I felt it was time to present a little factual information about what’s really what. With the help of Steve Rattner and a couple of other economists
Please note: I hit the “Send” button too soon and sent out a version of this post with Kamala Harris’s named misspelled. Mea culpa. Here is the corrected version. First, let me apologize for the absence of the Curmudgeon for the last
First, let me apologize for the absence of the Curmudgeon for the last three weeks. That’s the first time this has happened in over twelve years of publication. I was walking my dog and he saw some friends and took off. Next
Senator Chris Coombs of Delaware, a close confident of the Biden campaign was asked on This Week , if Biden was considering the possibility of dropping out of the race after Thursday night’s disaster. He avoided an answer. What he should have
The United States of America. That’s the name of our country. The United States, not the Divided States or the Individual States but the United States. That’s supposed to mean something and every time some right-wing asshole starts babbling about States Rights,
Rep Byron Donalds of Florida was interviewed on Meet the Press last Sunday and he came across as a thoughtful, intelligent guy. So why does he back Tr ump all the way? Because along with those qualities, he is plagued with a
The big noise in NYC this week is about the canceling of congestion pricing by Governor Hochul. It had to happen. Sure, NYC is a traffic mess but whatever is wrong, congestion pricing was never going to fix it. The whole concept
Representative Tony Gonzales, Republican, Texas, was interviewed on Face the Nation, last week, and the first thing that became apparent was that Gonzales is no supporter of his community. This is a Hispanic legislator who for some reason has hooked up with