by drjmcurtis | Jul 5, 2018
Tendering his resignation today, 50-year-old embattled Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt called it quits, becoming President’s latest Cabinet official to resign in disgrace. Pruitt became his own worst enemy abusing the job’s perks, flying first...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 3, 2018
Criticizing President Donald Trump before his NATO summit in Brussels July 11, only five days before meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the media found more fault with the president. During the campaign, Trump urged NATO allies to pony up their...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 2, 2018
After a year-and-a-half of some of the most partisan reporting on President Donald Trump, ABC News fired veteran investigative journalist Brian Ross and his producer Rhonda Schwartz. Ross reported Dec. 1, 2017 that Trump instructed former National Security Adviser...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 2, 2018
Ending the wild speculation before July 4th, the NBA’s top free agent, 33-year-old LeBron James, signed a four-year, $154 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, perhaps the most storied franchise in NBA history. After getting swept in the NBA finals June 8, the...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 30, 2018
Since pulling out of former President Barack Obama’s Iranian Nuke Deal May 8, Iran has threatened to ramp up its uranium enrichment program unless the European Union, Russia and China continue to back the July 15, 2015 agreement. Iran vehemently denies working on...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 29, 2018
Sitting in the House Judiciary Committee hot seat, 53-year-old Deputy Atty. Gen Rod Rosenstein fended off questions by Republicans angry over not receiving requested documents related to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email investigation and...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 28, 2018
After 16 months in office, 72-year-old President Donald Trump will finally summit in Helsinki July 16 with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian hysteria on Capitol Hill, blaming Putin for meddling in the 2016 election to favor Trump, has made U.S.-Russian...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 27, 2018
Announcing his retirement today after 30 years on the High Court effective July 30, 81-year-old swing-voting Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy finished his stint.. Appointed Feb. 18, 1988 by President Ronald Reagan, the moderate Republican mirrored a bygone era, where...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 26, 2018
Voting 5-4, a divided Supreme Court ruled today that President Donald Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0 is “squarely within” the president’s power under Article 2. In Trump v. Hawaii, the State of Hawaii could not prove that the intent of Trump’s travel ban, as alleged, was to...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 25, 2018
Rejected by Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority Dec. 24, 2017 one day after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the White House moved full steam ahead with a Mideast peace plan. Presenting the president’s play to Saudi Arabia,...