The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The difference between the legislatures we want and the legislatures we have was blatantly illustrated this week by the State of Tennessee as a majority of aging GOP legislators, whose existence is dependent on the serious application of gerrymandering, kicked out two
One of Trump’s prepaid lawyers, Joe Tacopina made the exact same speech on Sunday that I would have made if I wanted to prove exactly the opposite point about all the Trump nonsense. The biggest point being avoided by Mr. Tacopina is
John Kasich was a guest on Velshi this week. He talks a good game and is probably my favorite Republican, but he doesn’t follow through as a candidate. He’s a little too civilized for today’s kill or be killed political scene. The
Mike Pence was interviewed last Sunday and as usual, he crashed and burned when asked the simplest questions. He babbled about American’s right to protest peacefully and of course, Jonathan Karl pointed out that Trump’s last reaction to a protest lead to
This week, Biden gave a budget speech that wasn’t a budget speech and the Democrats loved it. Most of his proposals, received with glee by most citizens, will never pass the GOP led House. So, knowing that, why did he bother to
The rail disaster in East Palestine, Ohio is a direct result of the elimination of rail safety regulations during the Trump administration. There is no doubt that a Biden visit would have brought better press, but the responsibility for the lack of
Now that the various balloons have cleared our skies maybe the media will admit to just a bit of chicanery. I mean it was an air balloon that we treated like a rocket ship filled with nuclear bombs. With all the stories
So, Blinken and the Chinese are talking again. That’s good, but our message has to be definitive. “No weapons for Russia.” We have to make the Chinese understand that we will not accept territorial incursions into other countries by any nation in
The GOP is demanding laws that will limit what Presidents can do in office. That’s great. That’s as it should be. Too bad none of them came up with these laws when Trump was in office. That’s why the Dems would like
I’ve never been a fan of Marco Rubio, but he gave an intelligent and logical interview on the Chinese balloon incident last weekend. He didn’t blow his top and rave about what the Biden administration was or wasn’t doing about it the