by drjmcurtis | Jan 7, 2016
Sinking another 392 points to close at 16,514 today, the Dow Jones Industrial average is down 10% from its record close May 19, 2015 of 18,312. While still not in the correction category of 20%, the market’s CBOE VIX or market volatility index hit 24.77, less than...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 6, 2016
Claiming to detonate a “hydrogen bomb,” North Korea’s state-run new agency claimed the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea broke new ground in its nuclear program testing a thermonuclear device. Generating at 5.1 on the Richter Scale, roughly the same...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 5, 2016
In what’s become the true legacy of his two-term presidency, President Barack Obama bypassed Congress to sign another executive action this time on gun control. What Obama couldn’t get from Congress on immigration reform, he signed Nov. 21, 2014 an executive order...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 4, 2016
Rolling the dice less than one month before the Iowa caucuses, 68-year-old Democratic front-runner former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chose to put her husband on the campaign trail. With the primaries and nomination all but locked up, Hillary didn’t need...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 3, 2016
Storming the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran, angry Shiites protested the Jan. 2 execution of Shiite Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr together with 46 other prisoners accused of sedition in The Kingdom. Executing 157 prisoners in 2015, Saudi Arabia takes the lead in capital...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 2, 2016
Putting the U.S. on its threat list of the Russian Federation, 63-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin mirrored the sad state of affairs between Washington and Moscow. White House officials cite Russia’s March 1 invasion of Crimea as the basis for the current...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 1, 2016
Killing two and wounding seven, a Palestinian gunman opened fire in a Tel Aviv pub with the media reluctant to call the incident terrorism Since Oct. 23, Palestinians have been knifing and mowing down Israelis in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Eighty-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 31, 2015
Charging 78-year-old comedian Bill Cosby with aggravated sexual assault only days before the statute-of-limitations ran out, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele decided to proceed with second-degree felony charge. Forced to surrender his U.S. passport and...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 30, 2015
Speaking at a town-hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 68-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] barbaric persecution of Christians and other minority groups “genocide.” “We have enough...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 29, 2015
Speaking out about the Dec. 25 death of 44-year-old Syrian rebel leader Zahran Alloush, the Saudi government came close to admitting its proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Killed by a Russian air strike, Saudi officials conceded it doesn’t serve its...