The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Bibi Netanyahu has had a very nice couple of weeks, during which he has proved to be a vey sharp politician and a devoted student of the evil political genius, Niccolo Machiavelli. About a month ago Bibi looked around his
Bibi Netanyahu has had a very nice couple of weeks, during which he has proved to be a vey sharp politician and a devoted student of the evil political genius, Niccolo Machiavelli. About a month ago Bibi looked around his
The White House has announced the possibility that we will be using American ground forces in an attack on Mosel in about six weeks. So what’s the reaction across the political spectrum? Well, Lindsay Graham and John McCain, who have been screaming
There’s a lot of noise being made over an extremist threat to our malls. Is this a real threat? Probably, but not on any kind of scale like 911 or like the threat that the terrorists present to the nations
The world in general is up in arms about the atrocities that ISIS has been perpetrating against helpless hostages in the past few months and the question must be asked; doesn’t this make the Arab world understand that those in
The terrorist attacks in Paris have caused much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth but not much discussion of the responsibility and the cure of what is now happening all over the world. Where does the responsibility lie for these
The standard literary definition of insanity is to continually repeat the same action and expect a different result. Our country has been doing that with Cuba for over 50 years. This week Barak Obama made good on an electoral promise,
“I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, but I am also a killer. I’ve killed a lot and if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more. If you don’t want to get killed don’t show
The only solution the Middle East is going to get is going to have to be political and religious, not military. We can bomb the hell out of ISIS as long as we want and eventually it will become a recruiting
There’s a great deal of speculation about how we didn’t see ISIS becoming a big time threat until they were rolling through Iraq, murdering villages full of non-Sunni Muslims and making a general nuisance of themselves. How come? We do, after