The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
There was a discussion, recently, of Carly Fiorina and her place is in the Republican election plans for 2016. It was intelligently pointed out, by a GOP spokesman, that she is a huge improvement over Michele Bachman, who was the female attack
The FBI has put out a warning that hundreds of ISIS followers are loose in the land and are getting ready to commit horrendous atrocities all across the country. That may be, but they’ll never catch up to our own gun
We are still carrying on about the drone program and for the life of me I can’t see why. I’ve kind of stayed away from this because it always seemed pretty much a no-brainer, but, yes, like almost any argument, there
The issue of trust has been raised many times in conjunction with e-mail gate. Do you trust Hillary to edit her own e-mails? No, not unless you’re a naïve moron but, actually it doesn’t matter whether you trust her or
Everyone remembers the big, far right, conference sponsored by Sheldon Adelson, Israel’s and the super right’s biggest sponsor. You know, the one where all the Republican candidates crawled on their knees across the desert to grovel at Shel’s feet. Well, what you
Ted Cruz was at the Iowa mess and he was pushing hard for something. He wasn’t sure what, but he did say that we have 110 thousand employees at the IRS and we should close that organization down and put all of
Rudy Giuliani went on TV yesterday and proved what many of us have known for some time. Rudy is seriously ill. I can’t give you the factual medical terminology or diagnosis. We’ve all known for years that Rudy was a serious
Watching again a tragedy making its appearance on national, or in this case international news. I’m speaking about the disappearance of an Air Asia plane in the South Java Sea and I am again reminded about the way all news media cover
With all the noise being made about Jeb Bush’s potential run for President in 2016. The big question is; who, in keeping with the family tradition will he invade? Maybe Iceland, they haven’t had a good war in quite a while and
It seems quite clear that the Democrats lost this election because the Republicans ran a better campaign. On issue after issue, in poll after poll the American people agreed with the Democrats but still voted Republican. That tells you two big things.