The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
That seems to be the question of the hour because whoever answers it correctly will come away with a November 2 victory. But is what America wants, really what America needs? There are as many answers to that as there are people
Holy War: Should Americans Fear Muslims? I have just watched Christiane Amanpour moderate a madhouse catfight on “HolyWar: Should Americans Fear Muslims.” It had a full compliment of nuts featuring; Franklyn Graham, Robert Spenser and Gary Bauer on the anti-Muslim team and
The Republicans are already bragging about how they will take back the house and how that will allow them to have hearings on everybody and everything that the Democrats have touched. That would be a good thing if the object were to
This is the first time I have done this; that is, completely excerpted a piece that someone else has written but I thought that this was so important that I was obligated to show it in its entirety. I don’t always agree
Throw out government is the war cry of people too stupid to realize that they need government and too lazy to figure out a way to make it work. We have an election coming up. What are we going to do about
What’s Going On Here? This is a three part series on where we are as a country, where we want to be as individuals, where we should be as both, how we think we can achieve both and how that will be
Healthcare: Will it work? The jury’s still out and will be for quite some time. What we do know is that what we had wasn’t working. Insurance companies were dropping sick people causing the government to pick up their coverage or forcing
I had hoped that this would be over by now but it looks like it’s going to be with us for a while so I feel obligated to expand what I said the other day. Feisal Abdul Rauf has an absolute right
Glen Beck had a great opportunity last weekend and he blew it. Sure he stood up in front of a couple of hundred thousand of is closest friends and made an absolutely self aggrandizing speech but because of the extensive media coverage
The Republicans are already bragging about how they will take back the house and how that will allow them to have hearings on everybody and everything that the Democrats have touched. That would be a good thing if the object were to