by drjmcurtis | Jun 19, 2016
Reacting to the International Olympic Committee’s [IOC] ban of Russian track-and-field athletes for violating anti-doping rules, Russian President Vladimir Putin decried the ruling as excessive. “Of course that is unjust and unfair,” said Putin at a press conference...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 18, 2016
Accusing NATO of “warmongering,” 60-year-old German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier flashed his hand of seeking to end U.S. and European Union economic sanctions on Russia. EU buys some 35% of petroleum and 30% of natural gas from Russia, giving the EU a...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 17, 2016
Slapping President Barack Obama in the face June 16, a confidential State Department memo called for air strikes against the Shiite regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. What’s so striking about the secret memo is how off-the-wall the suggestion to bomb the...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 16, 2016
Showing clear signs that the GOP is finally acquiescing to real estate mogul and nominee Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a failed 2016 candidate, gave Trump some reluctant praise for agreeing to talk to the National Rifle Assn. about preventing suspected...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 15, 2016
Holding the Federal Funds Rate steady at 0.25%, 69-year-old Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen switched gears after the June 3 Labor Department report showing the nation only added 38,000 non-farm payroll jobs in May. Yellen sang a different tune April 27,...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 14, 2016
With the liberal press on her side, 68-year-old Democratic presumptive nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton continued her narrative about GOP presumptive nominee real estate tycoon Donald Trump. Showing no pause for the dead-and-injured in the June...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 13, 2016
Reporting that growing numbers of Brits back the exit from the European Union, a new Guardian/ICM poll showed voters favor leaving the EU by 53% to 47%. Only a few weeks ago, those numbers were reversed, with a majority backing British Prime Minister David Cameron’s...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 12, 2016
Striking near Disney World in Orlando, Florida today, 29-year-old U.S. citizen radicalized Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] terrorist Omar Mateen mowed down 50 revelers with an AR-15 assault rifle, wounding 53 at Pulse gay nightclub. FBI officials confirmed...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 11, 2016
Since winning the Indiana primary and Republican nomination May 3, 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee and real estate mogul Donald Trump finds himself in the crossfire from Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton and all the “Never Trump” haters....
by drjmcurtis | Jun 10, 2016
In coordinated attacks on 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee real estate tycoon Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden told the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy 2016 convention June 9 that Trump disrespected the federal courts. Biden insisted Trump’s...