The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The question Republican’s are asking; doesn’t the President have the right to fire Comey, Rosenstein or Mueller? The simple answer is, “yes.” But nothing is ever simple in government, politics or the law because if he fired any of them to
Egged on by warmonger and National Security advisor John Bolton, the American military are rattling sabers all over the planet. The main attractions right now are Venezuela and Iran but we can also look to North Korea, Ukraine, Yemen and various
So now we know why Donald Trump is the only President in the last half century that hasn’t made his tax returns public. Why wouldn’t he try to mask the fact that over a ten-year period, 1985-1994, he lost $1.7 billion? That’s
The question has been raised; does Attorney General Barr consider himself as the head of the justice department for the people of the United States or as the President’s personal lawyer? That question was answered definitively this week in the Senate
Joe Biden threw his hat n the ring last Thursday morning and immediately made it crystal clear that he was going to pursue a very different game plan than all the other significant candidates. Whereas the other front-runners have opted for the
Three times this week, old friends have told me that despite all the facts presented by the Mueller Report they still favor Trump because, n their view, he has never been given a fair chance. One friend said, “The Democrats attacked
Well, the Mueller report is out and finally out of the hands of our scurrilous AG Bill Barr. According to all reports it says anything but what Barr and the administration would like us to think. It’s obvious that Mueller found
I’m watching Pete Buttigeig having a conversation about the subtle differences between socialism and capitalism and the ways they interact in our present society and I begin to wonder how that conversation would sound coming from our current president. And I couldn’t
Julian Assange was arrested, this week. British authorities made the pickup at the Ecuadorian Embassy where Assange has been hiding for seven years. It seems he was misbehaving so badly that even the Ecuadorians wanted him arrested. He will probably be
I was reading a couple of seriously right wing sites this week. Of course I read them. You have to read everything if you want to have some realistic idea of what’s going on in the world we inhabit. Bizarrely enough,