The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Everybody’s going crazy over the TPP. It’s all over the news with Obama calling Elizabeth Warren wrong, and holding out against everyone who thinks that we need to move slowly or not at all. Democrats are fighting the President over what’s in
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, two potential GOP candidates for president, both without any platform on which to run, have decided that since they can’t come up with any kind of positive plan fore their presidency, they would come up with,
It’s a hot time for politics in the Republican party. Once they crapped out in Vegas, all the money grubbers headed over to Iowa, spewing their Christian venom, throwing around accusations that bore little or no truth and generally playing clown to
The Republican Jewish Coalition Meeting took place last week in Vegas. Sheldon Adelson was holding court as the right wing contenders flocked to kneel at his throne and beg for funds. No one seems to be bothered by all our GOP
We spend billions each year on Homeland Security and yet some of us live in terror of foreign attacks against the nation, especially a repeat of 911. The fact is that since 911 there have been 42 deaths in this country
With Hillary having announced, the questions are coming hard and fast. The most important one seems to be over how she will react on questions about Obama. The GOP attack dogs have been going after him for six years. Will she
A rather slow-witted woman named Susan Brooks from, where else, the latest Benghazi committee has demanded that Hillary turn over her server to them. Sure, Susan, right after Bush, Cheney and all their cabinet turn over all their communications to a
Tom Cotton, a redneck Jesus freak from Arkansas, somehow managed to get a majority of Senate Republicans to sign off on a letter that was unbelievably sent to the government of Iran, seriously undercutting America’s negotiations on Iran’s nuclear intentions. Who
Congress ducked a bullet recently, putting off the funding of the DHS for another week. The problem as outlined everywhere, is that the Republicans want to attach a rider to the funding bill stopping the President from acting on immigration, while
I’m looking at all the stuff that’s in the news this week and am appalled at how one party has been able to influence all the things that are going on in America in a negative way. I’m speaking, of course, about