The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Sunday morning talking heads are all over the idea that Syria is the monumental totem of the Obama Presidency. This only proves that these false newsmen will do anything to promote a little noise for themselves to talk about. There is
President Obama, has spent the last couple of weeks blowing smoke about how President Assad of Syria, a country that most, geographically challenged, Americans couldn’t even find on the map, has been gassing his citizens. According to the President
Syria and gas are today’s most intriguing discussion points. Who’d a thought it? The Soviets say that the gas attack on Damascus was the work of rebel forces trying to get us to invade Syria or at least give them more and
You really can’t make this stuff up. Yesterday the Obama White House told Russia that they must not persecute individuals and groups seeking to expose corruption in their country even as Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown are being harassed,
There has been a lot of talk lately about the Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Barrett Brown, Carl Ellsberg and Julien Assange, et al; what they represent, what they mean to this country and what they really are.
The President doesn’t think Snowden is a patriot. Okay, he can’t be right all the time. But when he says that he was already lining up his ducks to look into the same stuff that Snowden leaked, he is actually
I watched incredulously yesterday as the President came on TV and announced to the world that the United States, acting unilaterally on information that only a three year old child would readily accept, was going to attack Syrian government forces
Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison rhis week for informing the American public that its government was committing crimes in its name. The most civilized comment I have run across about this heinous miscarriage of justice is from
So we are charging Edward Snowden with Espionage. How come we haven’t charged Dick Cheney with espionage? Cheney did more than Snowden to put American agents in danger and to help any foreign government when he instructed his aides Scooter
Got a note from a friend with whom I once shared a conservative philosophy that is not currently feasible. It included a column by George Will who I have long thought to be one of the most intelligent men in the