by John M. Curtis | Jun 9, 2019
Heading to Tehran to engage in some high stakes diplomacy, 64-year-old Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to talk some sense into the Mullah government. Rejecting all U.S. overtures for dialogue, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khaenei slammed the door on...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 8, 2019
Ordering the reopening the Columbia border, 56-year-old Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signals that that 35-year-old opposition leader Juan Guaido’s U.S.-backed coup is dead. Since declaring himself interim president Jan. 24, Guaido failed to deliver on his...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 7, 2019
Hounding 68-year-old Atty. Gen. William Barr for more documents, 68-year-old House Government Affairs and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) continues to throw subpoenas at the Justice Department. Democrats’ narrative heading into the 2020 election is that...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 6, 2019
Exposing Washington’s hyper-partisan divide, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that 72-year-old President Donald Trump should be sent to “prison,” not realizing she tipped her hand when it comes to impeachment. Since Special Counsel Robert Muller finished his...
by John M. Curtis | Jun 5, 2019
Rallying back over 700 points in the last two sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended today’s trading session at 25,539, still off about 1,000 points from its record high in October 3, 2018. When Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell met with his Open...