by John M. Curtis | Mar 10, 2017
Confirmed Feb. 17 by the Senate along mostly party-line [52-46], 48-year-old former Okalahoma Att. Gen. Scott Pruitt became the next director of the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], replacing 64-year-old Gina McCarthy. Democrats objected Pruitt’s nomination...
by John M. Curtis | Mar 9, 2017
Preparing the battlefield to evict the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] from Raqqa, the U.S. and Kurds-backed Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] finds itself on a collision course with Turkey. Turkey sees anything Kurdish as its enemy, including the Kurdish Protect...
by John M. Curtis | Mar 8, 2017
Playing into North Korea’s hand, 45-year-old U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley showed her bravado saying, “all options were on the table” in response to North Korea’s March 7 intermediate missile launches into the Sea of Japan. Giving 32-year-old North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un...
by John M. Curtis | Mar 7, 2017
Blaming Congress for not standing up for CNN, 51-yer-old CNN CEO Jeff Zucker refused to take responsibility for CNN backing former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Zucker thinks President Donald Trump has gone overboard...
by John M. Curtis | Mar 6, 2017
Closing ranks to refute President Donald Trump’s charge that his campaign was wiretapped by the Obama administration, ABC News reported Martha Raddatz tapped Obama White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. Using Earnest as a character witnesses is like using Al...