The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The big conference in Paris didn’t nail any kind of enforceable environmental contract but it did get almost 200 countries to agree that these things had to be done. Those that don’t agree, live unfortunately in this country, and are members
ISIS claims that its caliphate is a paradise. All these refugees leaving puts the lie to this. That’s why ISIS loves all the dumb governors in the US that don’t want refugees from Syria. So yes, our Republican refusal to accept refugees
Voters are angry We can see this and polls tell us the same story but what are they angry about? This is the question that tells us which Americans are worried about their country and which one are worried about their personal
Palestinians are stabbing Israelis and Israelis are shooting Palestinians. What else is new? This has been going on almost forever and it will continue to go on until we get moderates leading both the Palestinians and the nation of Israel. There is
A five hundred million dollar training program to put together an Iraqi army to fight ISIS has yielded, by the admission of the American general staff, about five or six functioning fighters. Five or six? The only answer to incompetence like
Naguin Sawiris, a Coptic Christian, is Egypt’s third richest man. He is showing the world the right way to spend money. He wants to buy an island and house between one and two hundred thousand refugees there. It’s a complicated deal but
Mitch McConnell, our useless Senate Majority Leader, the same pond scum who spent the last six years on the government payroll trying to keep Barak Obama from getting re-elected and failing, has now shown the reason for his hapless crusade. He can’t
With all the potential news stories out in the world, Steve Kornacki spent twenty minutes this morning on the possibility of a Joe Biden campaign and then came back to spend another five minutes on it later in the show. Twenty-five
There was a discussion this week about the fact that terrorists were now communicating on what is called a dark network. This seems to mean that they can avoid surveillance by using encrypted files that are unbreakable by our security entities. For
Robert Iger was out celebrating the 60th anniversary of Disney Land recently. Iger is the CEO of the Disney empire, but though he may be celebrating an anniversary, he has nothing to celebrate when it comes to labor relations. This