The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Trump has picked Mike Pence. Two old white men can now bond in their hatred of everything that isn’t them. It’s amazing to me that all the Trump backers have this penchant for grasping non-reality. I watch Trump speak and I see
For years the economic debate between the GOP and the Democrats has raged on unabated. For some inexplicable reason the Republicans have acquired the reputation of being the Party of finance, but when one looks at the facts, a starkly different
Jeh Johnson head of Homeland Security and Bill Bratten, NYC Police Commissioner were all over the tube this weekend, commenting on the shootings of Philando Castile in Minneapolis, Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and five police officers in Dallas. These occurrences are
The Republicans made another bonehead move when they called FBI Director James Comey to testify at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. These are the same blunderers that wasted $7million on the Clinton Benghazi hearing that came to
James Comey, Director of the FBI went on the tube this morning, July5,2016 and after reading a seemingly inexhaustible list of the processes that his agency had gone through in the Clinton email investigation, announced that they would recommend to the Attorney
When given a moment to explain why he has stumbled so clumsily around the Trump problem he faces in this election, Paul Ryan talks of inclusiveness, a subject, about which his party knows nothing. The GOP is all about the exclusive few
Paul Ryan explains his grudging support for Donald Trump as giving people a better path forward. Neither Trump nor his party has ever done that and it doesn’t look like Trump will be changing on that anytime soon. The only path
There is a lot of noise being made lately about a heroin epidemic, The question this brouhaha brings to the mind is; is it real or is it a tool being used by big corporations to keep the ball rolling? Is
Guns do kill people and if you are one of the simplistic geniuses who made up that cute little slogan about people doing the killing, you are not completely wrong, just without combat experience and grossly naïve. Picture the nutcase who mowed
Mitch McConnell proved today on national TV why he is nothing but a dead fish. This is a clown who spent the last eight years trying to foil Barak Obama, even as Obama beat his brains out in two Presidential elections. This