The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
There has never been anything like the NSA’s omnivorous appetite for every item of information available on the planet and now we see that they are checking out porn sites to see if anyone they want to smear is using them. Joe
The Battle for Obamacare goes on. John Dean points out that no huge program, private or public ever gets off the board without glitches and that stands twice as strong for government programs. He also points out that the program is
Okay, so it’s over but that doesn’t mean that there’s no ugly residue. Sure the GOP wasted someplace between $24 billion and $54 billion, depending who you listen to, hard earned American taxpayer dollars for no good reason but that’s
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the foreign oil companies that keep running ads on American television informing us what a great bunch of guys they are and how much they’re doing to help America has just been fined $1.1 million for
So the losers in Washington have kept the country from defaulting, as least for a while. What they should have done four months ago is to have passed the debt limit and everything else and then immediately gotten down to fixing
Let’s hear it for the party that wants to f__k kids with cancer. That’s right, you heard me. That’s what the Greedy Old Pigs are doing right now, because among the services that the government they shut down, used to
Five years ago seven western governors backed a study that revealed that it would be cheaper and much more workable if they just insured everybody in one big package. The problem, it seemed was not the premium cost but the current
For those of you who do not understand the President’s refusal to negotiate with the GOP over the shutdown let me see if I can illuminate your confused brain with a little basic civics. This country runs on what we
Ann Coulter wrote a column about crazy people the other day, proving just how crazy she really is. It seems that Coulter is upset about the latest shooting in the navy yard in Washington. Yes, of course, it’s Obama’s
In the last few years a lot of people have written to this blog, denouncing our policy of attacking stupidity in government. The reason we have promulgated these attacks is very simple. Stupidity is far more dangerous than dishonesty.