by drjmcurtis | Dec 23, 2016
Tweeting that the U.S. needs to modernize and expand its nuclear arsenal, 70-year-old President-elect Donald Trump caused the latest media hubbub speaking with his new press secretary Sean Spicer on CNBC’s Morning Joe, with former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl.) and Mika...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 22, 2016
Giving the Democratic Party some free advice, 67-year-old Fox News host Bill O’Reilly stirred up a hornet’s nest saying progressives are trying to upend our nation’s old white order. “This is about race,” said O’Reilly. “The left sees white privilege in America as an...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 21, 2016
Hunting feverishly for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] assassin that plowed a semi-truck into a Berlin Christmas market Dec. 19 killing 12, injuring 48 near Breitscheidplatz, German Chancellor Angela Merkel can only wonder about her open-door policy for...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 20, 2016
Ramming a semi-truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market Dec. 19 killing 12 , injuring 46, 62-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces new criticism for her open-door policy with Mideast refugees. Considered a hero by left wing groups sympathetic to Mideast...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 19, 2016
On the day the Electoral College meets to certify the Nov. 8 victory of 70-year-old President-elect Donald Trump, the press continues to hammer the narrative that Russia handed the real estate tycoon the election. Trump labeled the idea “ridiculous” Dec. 11 that...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 18, 2016
Responding to China seizing an underwater drone Dec. 16 in the South China Sea, 57 miles from Subic Bay, Philippines, President-elect Donald Trump said the Chinese government should be told “we don’t want the drone they stole back,” Trump Tweeted causing a media...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 17, 2016
Putting his heart-and-soul into Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, 55-year-old President Barack Obama blasted the media for treating Hillary unfairly. Calling press coverage “troubling, Barack accused the media of...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 16, 2016
Looking for any excuse to deflect blame for damaging the campaign of 69-year-oild Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 56-year-old James Comey agreed with a CIA assessment that Russian hacks helped the campaign of 70-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 15, 2016
Running against propaganda from the United States and European Union, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sounded a hopeful tone as the last remaining pockets of resistance in Aleppo finally gave in. Since the 2011 Saudi-backed Arab Spring, al-Assad has fought a...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 14, 2016
Wall Street got doused with cold water with 70-year-old Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen hiking the federal funds rate from 0.50% to 0.75%, the only rate hike in 2016 and second hike since Dec. 17, 2008. Yellen’s modest 25-basis points increase signals...