by drjmcurtis | Apr 29, 2016
Beating back the semi-covert anti-Trump movement, 69-year-old real estate tycoon Donald Trump hit 994 pledged delegates only 243 shy of the magic number of 1,237. Despite the best efforts of the Republican Party establishment led by former 2016 GOP candidates Florida...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 28, 2016
Calling for an international peace conference to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayault announced France would host a ministerial meeting May 30 before a peace conference. “The best way to resolve the conflict between Israel...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 27, 2016
Facing imminent failure in his presidential campaign, 45-year-old Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) picked 61-year-old former Hewlett-Packard CEO and presidential candidate Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Losing the I-95 primaries in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast to GOP...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 26, 2016
Pandering the women’s vote, 68-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised at an MSNBC town hall meeting to appoint at least 50% women to her Cabinet. Asked by host Rachel Maddow whether she’d match 44-year-old newly minted Canadian Prime...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 25, 2016
President Barack Obama agreed to send 250 more U.S. adviors to Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] while continuing to the support the Saudi proxy war trying to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Causing more than 250,000 deaths and million...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 24, 2016
Getting desperate in crunch time, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich pooled resources to deprive real estate tycoon Donald Trump of the 1,237 magic delegate number to win the GOP nomination. Sinking in the polls and faced with a slew of primary defeats...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 23, 2016
Showing the kind of blindness that fuels the worst refugee crisis since WWII, 61-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined European Union Council head Donald Tusk and European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans visiting two refugee camps in Nazip,...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 22, 2016
Spending years mending fences between the U.S. and Russia, 85-year-old former Soviet Union Premier Mikhail Gorbachev called on President Barack Obama to stop alienating Russia. Calling relations with the U.S. “frozen.” Gorbachev urged both sides to get beyond...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 21, 2016
Pumped after her big April 19 win in the New York Democratic primary, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told ABC’s “Good Morning America” she hoped Bernie would go to bat for her now that’s it’s clear she’ll win the nomination. Talking about what...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 20, 2016
Losing to 68-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by 15% in New York’s April 19 primary, 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) unlikely run for the Democratic nomination hit a brick wall. No longer talking about momentum from winning...