by John M. Curtis | Jan 26, 2019
Urging the Security Council and other U.N. states to “pick sides,” 55-year-old Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked the Council to reject the Venezuelan government of socialist dictator Victor Maduro. Running the country into the ground since the death of late...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 25, 2019
Thanks to the late Venezuela socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer March 5, 2013, his successor 56-year-old Nickolas Maduro ran Venezuela into the ground. When opposition leader Juan Guaido, head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself the new...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 24, 2019
With two competing bills to reopen the government, one Democrat and one Republican, going down in flames today in the U.S. Senate, it’s time for 78-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to step aside to let other responsible Democrats negotiate with...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 23, 2019
Doing everything possible to force 72-year-old Donald Trump to reopen the government, 78-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) officially cancelled the Jan. 29 State-of-the-Union Speech. Pelosi’s decision signals that she intends to play hardball with...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 22, 2019
President Donald Trump’s Jan. 19 proposal to reopen government, offering temporary DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], hit the skids today when the Supreme Court ruled [5-4] that former President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive order is still in place. Trump...