by drjmcurtis | Dec 3, 2016
Seeking a pardon from President Barack Obama before leaving office Jan. 20, 2017, 30-year-old army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl joins the line of various drug offenders, petty criminals and whistleblowers praying for mercy. Bergdahl abandoned his Blackfoot Company, 1st...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 2, 2016
Repeating the same mistake when he joined former GOP nominee Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney as VP in 2012, 46-year-old House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) raised the prospect again of cutting Medicare and Social Security. Romney learned quickly that Ryan’s zealotry for cutting...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 1, 2016
Admitting he’s committed to toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, 62-year-old Recept Tayyip Erdogan roiled Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since Sept. 30, 2015, Putin joined the fight to save al-Assad, providing Syria with relentless air strikes against rebels...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 30, 2016
Urging President Barack Obama to recognize “Palestine” before leaving office, 92-year-old former President Jimmy Carter showed why he’s not taken seriously on the world stage. Carter’s claim-to-fame were the 1979 Camp David Accords that had Israel cede the Gaza Strip...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 29, 2016
Faced with the collapse of Saudi-U.S.-funded Syrian opposition in East Aleppo, U.S. President Barack Obama can only look back and ask himself how many deaths he caused in Syria. Instead of confronting the Saudi’s Arab Spring proxy war against Syrian President Bashar...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 28, 2016
Raising more questions than it answers, 90-year-old former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro succumbed to lingering illness dying of old age Nov. 25. Admired by communist revolutionaries around the globe, Castro came to power Jan. 1, 1959 after he led a band of Latin...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 27, 2016
Raising $4.8 million to fund recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, 66-year-old Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein continues to play the role of spoiler in the 2016 election. Unable to get over one percent of the vote Nov. 8, Stein’s message...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 26, 2016
Hoping to placate establishment Republicans, President-elect Donald Trump met with 2012 GOP nominee former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Oct. 19 at his New Jersey golf club. Roiling Trump loyalists, Romney was one of Trump’s fiercest critics, holding a PR event at...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 25, 2016
Huddling for Thanksgiving in freezing cold weather near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, about 300 protesters from over 200 Native American tribes continued their opposition to Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline. Seeking to complete a...
by drjmcurtis | Nov 24, 2016
Proving that elections really matter, 70-year-old President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he plans to join forces with Russia to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS]. For the past six years, President Barack Obama adopted the foreign policy of war hawks...