by drjmcurtis | May 8, 2019
House Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) made good on his promise to hold 68-year-old Atty. Gen. William Barr in Contempt of Congress for refusing to testify, but, more importantly, failing to release the full, unredacted Mueller Report. Since 74-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | May 7, 2019
Running out of cash, Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, fired rockets into Israel, hoping for a wider war that would inevitably bring rich Gulf State donors to re-supply Hamas with fresh cash. Since seizing the Gaza Strip June 14, 2007 from Ramallah-based Palestinian...
by drjmcurtis | May 6, 2019
Sending a high-end delegation to Washington for urgent trade talks May 8, China hopes to avoid another round of tariffs slated to go up to 25% Friday, May 10. Beijing has complained the 72-year-old President Donald Trump continues to play hardball with China,...
by drjmcurtis | May 6, 2019
Clashing with his Russian counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on Venezuela, 56-year-old Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Russia to get out of Caracas. With Russia, Cuba and China having hundreds of advisers in Caracas, the time has long pased for...
by drjmcurtis | May 5, 2019
Launching a rocket and tactical weapons test, 35-year-old North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un pushed 72-year-old President Donald Trump to make more concessions before the next round of high-stakes diplomacy or face more nuke and Intercontinental Ballistic missile...
by drjmcurtis | May 3, 2019
Reporting today that the unemployment rate hit a 50-year-low of 3.6%, the Labor Department reported, adding 263,000 jobs in April. While all that seems rosy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell met with his Open Market Committee May 1, holding the Federal Funds...
by drjmcurtis | May 2, 2019
Refusing to testify in the House Judiciary Committee today, 68-year-old Atty. Gen. William Bar echoed the sentiments of 72-year-old President Donald Trump who said, “enough is enough,” since the March 22 Mueller report found no Russian collusion and no basis for...
by drjmcurtis | May 1, 2019
Answering pointed questions in the Senate Judiciary Committee today, 68-year-old William Barr got dragged into the 2020 presidential campaign where Democrats look for anything to impeach 72-year-old Donald Trump. Barr told the committee that Trump was cleared by...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 30, 2019
Staging what looks like a pro-democracy coup in Venezuela, 35-year-old opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido hoped Venezuela’s 56-year-old socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro would surrender power. Maduro flexed his military muscle, running over...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 29, 2019
Appearing in a new Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS} video, 47-year-old leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rumored killed June 15, 2017 in Russian air strike, looked alive-and-well sitting around a circle with his terrorist comrades. Al-Baghdadi emerged from the...