growls from Manhattan
If you aren’t disgusted by the gyrations of our government over the debt ceiling then you aren’t paying attention. A bunch of Tea Party and ultra conservative members of the house, are holding the rest of the United States Government hostage in
I’ve tried to stay away from this because to cover it in anything smaller than a book seems to give most of it short shrift but then I got to feeling that I’ve avoided it too long so here’s the Curmudgeon’s take
Take way the Republican’s desire to live in 1776 and there are a number of things that can be done by them, with the cooperation of the Democrats to put this country back on its feet and make this country the world
The question was; “Are you better off now than when Obama took office?” 44% said no while 34% said yes. This seems like a reasonable total considering the current situation but it’s the wrong question or at least it’s only the question
You’re probably sick of hearing about this. So am I but it’s really very important so I am writing about it once again. It seems the President is in a steel cage match with various grunts from the Republican party, all of
With the killing of Osama Bin Laden we have to take a long look at what the real situation in the Middle East has become and what we should be doing about it. Putting aside all the hysteria, all the finger pointing
So we’re almost three years into the Obama Presidency and the question must be asked. Is he the right guy for the job; maybe, maybe not. In order to answer that question intelligently we have to go back to 2007 and the
For comedians across the country, Sara Palin is the gift that just keeps giving. Her recent tour of places where other candidates were announcing their candidacy led her to New Hampshire where she was kind enough to tell the world that Paul
Michael Grynbaum, in a recent article on Traffic Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, completely missed the point. The people of the city don’t care if Sadik-Khan is nasty, abrasive or hard to work with. Most of them don’t ever, thank God, have to see
Everybody talks about solving the deficit as if that’s the most important problem on the horizon. I guess it is if you have a job but there are plenty of people in this country who don’t have jobs and their lack of