by drjmcurtis | May 16, 2016
Meeting in Vienna to exempt the new Libyan government from an arms embargo, 70-year-old Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to provide Libya’s fragile government more humanitarian and military support. Repeating the same mistakes in Iraq, Kerry backs arming the...
by drjmcurtis | May 16, 2016
Talking about disunity within the Republican Party, the media has grossly overstated problems in the GOP heading into this fall general election, promising to pit 68-year-old Democratic front-runner former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton against 69-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | May 14, 2016
Former President Bill Clinton defended his attempt to secure a two-state solution between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, ending in failure June 3, 2000. Instead of celebrating a new Palestinian...
by drjmcurtis | May 13, 2016
Thirty-Three years after President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative [SDI] March 13, 1983, the so-called Star Wars missile defense system known as Aegis has been installed in Deveselu, Romania. Plans for installing the Aegis system in Poland and...
by drjmcurtis | May 12, 2016
Iran’s Culture Minister Ali Jannati announced today that Iranian Shiites would boycott Saudi Arabia’s 2016 Hajj, a yearly pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, considered high on the priority for the world’s devout Muslims. Calling Saudi Arabia “incompetent” for managing...
by drjmcurtis | May 11, 2016
Less than 24 hours before meeting 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee real estate tycoon Donald Trump, 46-year-old newly minted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had a sudden change-of-heart about backing Trump for president. Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper May 6 that he...
by drjmcurtis | May 10, 2016
Talking by telephone to CNN’s “New Day” with Chris Cuomo, 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee and real estate mogul Donald Trump indicated he was open to renegotiating the national debt, currently running at $19 trillion. By the time wires got crossed, Trump’s remarks...
by drjmcurtis | May 9, 2016
Telling CNN’s Jake Tapper “he’s not yet ready to back” GOP presumptive nominee 69-year-old real estate mogul Donald Trump, newly minted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) found himself in whole lot of hurt. Making a rookie mistake, Ryan wants to debate with Trump about...
by drjmcurtis | May 8, 2016
Uncertainty about a June rate hike by the Federal Reserve Board triggered the latest round of selling on Wall Street, leaving the Dow Jones Industrials closing May 6 at 17,740, about 700 points from its May 18, 2015 high of 18,312. Recent jobs gains left Federal...
by drjmcurtis | May 7, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) reluctance to back 69-year-old real estate mogul and 2016 GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump shows he’s not fit for his current job. Newly minted Oct. 29, 2015 as House Speaker, Ryan doesn’t yet understand his job as GOP...