The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
In a recent show, Bill Maher led a failed discussion on the maddening fact that our government can’t seem to get anything done. Unfortunately, the discussion barely touched on the reasons why this is true or the fact that Joe Manchin opposed
The GOP is changing state voting laws big time. Surprisingly though, most of the changes are nowhere near as limiting as the Democrats would like you to believe. Of course, by the same token, most are completely un- necessary and
So the last Curmudgeon checked out how Joe Biden had done during his first year as a legislator and we found out that he was making progress but that neither he nor anyone else in the Democrat’s world had any
Joe Biden has been President for a little over a year and regardless of whether or not you like the job he’s done it’s hard to say he hasn’t done a far better one than his predecessor. Still, there are many Americans
On March 1, 1954, four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party sent a fusillade of automatic pistol fire raking the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Five members of The House were wounded. All recovered! The shooters, three men and
Forty six percent of the GOP and thirty two percent of Democrats think there will be a civil war during their lifetimes. Why? Well they look at what happened on 1/6/2021 and they see a bunch of dumb schmucks that put their
The worst tornados in memory, hit six states this week, resulting in many deaths. But the real news was the political reactions to the devastation. Even though most of the devastated states were GOP based; Joe Biden immediately pledged help for
The GOP frontrunner in Missouri, Eric Greitens is accused of tying up his mistress in the basement of his family home. In Georgia, Hershel Walker is on the verge of being arrested for threatening his wife with a gun. Sean Parnel, the
Anyone who has read, watched or listened to any GOP based media in the last couple of months has learned that the new scare word is “inflation.” It has become the mega curse word of the Trumpian world and it’s the favorite
So they got it done. The House finally passed the Infrastructure Bill and they will send it to the White House where Biden will sign it.What will the American people get from it? $110 billion to repair and replace roads, bridges