The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Watching all the commentators discuss the delegate count for both primaries makes one realize that our electoral system is the most undemocratic mess that ever crawled out of a garbage pail in Kowloon. You combine the Democrats Supper delegate farce with
Who, among the Presidential candidates, is qualified to be the next President? That became the big question this week when it popped up in the Democratic race, but it is far more relevant to the Republican race where people are backing
Watching the GOP pundits like Joe Scarborough and his silly excuse for a panel on Morning Joe, give voice to a twisted version of President Obama’s reactions to certain international situations simply because it gives them a phony chance to create
This column has spoken a lot about Donald Trump so now it’s time to draw some comparisons between Trump who we have vigorously attacked, and Hillary Clinton who has been just as vigorously attacked by the Right.. There was a discussion
There has been a lot of noise made about foreign trade policies and how bad they have been for this country. Donald Trump, who is making the most noise, does know a little about trade. Very little! He is always harping
One looks around at the attacks against our current foreign policy and one listens to all the complaints about how it is being conducted and one wonders; does anyone who writes in the media or schemes in Washington ever read any
So the big question has become where are all these Trump followers coming from? The answer seems to be from failure. Failure on the part of the Republican establishment to deliver on any of the promises they have made through one
The violence at the Trump rallies in Chicago and other places on Saturday night were reminiscent of many other rallies that we have seen over the years, but in each case there are significant differences. In Chicago in 1968 the protestors
The GOP has come up with the latest fantasy of the Obama problem. It appears that Donald Trump is a creation of Barak Obama’s administration! Yeah, sure, we’re really ready to buy that one. The concept seems to have originated with
Millions of refugees are flooding into Europe. That’s more than Europe can handle even if all of the countries involved really did their part. But countries like Hungry, those that used to make up Yugoslavia and many others won’t. Nations around the