The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
So we have finally decided to leave Afghanistan. It’s about time we made a good move in foreign policy. The best result of this move seems to be China’s interest in replacing us. They have already gotten deeply involved in the business
What the hell does Joe Manchin think he’s doing? He raves against messing with the filibuster, he babbles against using the reconciliation process and he whines about wanting a bi-partisan process to achieve all legislation. It may sound great to him
The greatest crisis this country faces at this moment is a monumental lack of common sense. I say this with full understanding that there are whole rafts of problems we are currently facing which seem to be completely beyond comprehension let alone
Asa Hutchinson is the Republican Governor of a very backward Republican state and I rarely agree with him on anything, but on Monday of last week he vetoed a ban on “gender affirming medical care,” calling it a “vast government
Joe Biden threw down the gauntlet this week and it’s pretty clear he’s not worried if the Republicans pick it up. That’s because no matter what they do, he will win and so will the American people. Biden proposed a bill that
The Governor of Georgia stepped to a microphone on Saturday and blabbed that his state had taken steps to insure that their elections were secure, accessible and fair. Really? Let’s see; secure: I’ve looked through the changes and find not one single
The United States has been having problems on its southern border for at least the last twenty years. The last president saw a way to attract racist votes by metastasizing those problems. He blew them up by promising a wall that
The GOP is doing its damnedest to keep everyone who isn’t a registered Republican from voting. As an excuse for this anti-American behavior they are embracing Trump’s “rigged election” nonsense. What they don’t seem to get is that most of the measures
Joe Manchin was on the tube this weekend talking about his position in the debate on the COVID relief bill. Joe is a Democrat who has managed to keep getting elected in a seriously red state. He has done it by lying
We are all aware of the damage that has been done by Trump’s big lie. Anyone with even a tenuous grasp on the ability to reason or to think logically has to recognize it for what it is, a desperate attempt by