by drjmcurtis | Aug 29, 2019
Issuing new warnings to adolescents and pregnant women about the negative effects of marijuana, Health and Human Services [HHS] Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned of alleged dangers to marijuana use. Yet neither Azar nor Adams cites any...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 28, 2019
Twenty years after the U.S. and NATO bombed Serbia into submission June 11, 1999, Serbian President Aleksander Vucic continues the campaign led by the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose ethnic cleaning against Kosovo’s ethnic Muslim Albanians led to his...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 27, 2019
Faced with a looming Oct. 31 deadline for Brexit, 55-year-old British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a very different approach than his predecessor former Prime Minister Theresa May. May let the Brussels-based European Union call the shots, imposing a customs union...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 26, 2019
When a radioactive plume spiraled out of the secret Nyonoksa testing facility Aug. 8, 66-tear-old Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed the event, claiming it was a routine occurrence at a nuclear site. That story didn’t add up when toxic levels of radioactive...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 25, 2019
Showing up at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, 59-year-old U.S.-educated Iranian Foreign Minister Mahammad Javad Zarif made a strong pitch to French President Emanuel Macron to continue buying Iranian oil. Since 73-year-old President Donald Trump bailed out of the...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 24, 2019
Arriving in Mediterranean costal port of Biaritz, Framce for the G7 summit, 73-year-old Donald Trump arrived with great uncertainty after yesterday’s tweets increasing the trade war with China. While no one know for sure the effect of Trump’s trade war on the global...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 23, 2019
Showing that he’s willing to act swiftly to keep the U.S. economy rolling, 66-year-old Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said while the economy’s doing OK now he’s concerned about potential pitfalls down the road. Powell expressed no regret over raising the...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 22, 2019
U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia ruled today that a 1952 immigration law was unconstitutional, before tossing out the convictions of Jose Felipe and Henandez-Cavallo and Mauro Papalotzi, all three managed crews of illegal immigrants working for a drywall...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 21, 2019
Slamming 73-year-old President Donald Trump for being anti-Semitic, the Democrat Party and media friends continued to paint Trump as a bigot for statements he made about American Jews not supporting him for president. Without question, with the possible exception of...
by drjmcurtis | Aug 20, 2019
Responding the avalanche of press reports that the nation is heading into recession, 73-year-old Donald Trump refuted the idea, saying that he’s considering payroll tax cuts at some point. Without being specific, Trump responded to growing number of U.S. economists...