by drjmcurtis | Jul 30, 2015
When Turkey and the U.S. joined forces July 27 to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria away from the Turkish border, hopes were high that the U.S. finally found a partner fight the world’s most dangerous terrorist group. Morphed from the murderous protoplasm of...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 29, 2015
Showing the abysmal state U.S. intelligence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Taliban’s fugitive 55-year-old spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has been confirmed dead for at least two years. With a $10 million price on his head from the U.S. State Department, Omar’s...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 28, 2015
Comparing President Barack Obama nuke deal with Iran to the Holocaust, 59-year-old former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee forgot he no longer worked for Fox News and was running as a GOP candidate for president. While Huckabee’s intent was to back Israeli Prime Minister...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 27, 2015
In a stunning rebuke of the White House policy on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], Turkey asked the U.S.-founded North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] under Article 4 to convene an emergency session for only the fifth time in its 68-year history....
by drjmcurtis | Jul 26, 2015
NBC/Marist College poll confirms that 69-year-old real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump is starting to grow on GOP voters, putting him seven points up in New Hampshire and only two points down in Iowa. While the numbers are by no means conclusive, they do...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 25, 2015
Scratching heads for the July 23 Lafayette, Louisiana movie theater rampage of 59-year-old mentally disturbed ne’er-do-well John Houser, authorities refused to speculate. Killing two young women and injuring scores more at a showing of Judd Apatow’s “The Trainwreck,”...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 24, 2015
Republican elected officials on Capitol Hill probing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private emails, including freshman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), are getting that sinking...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 23, 2015
Confirming what everyone already knows, 54-year-old FBI Director James Comey told the Aspen Security Forum July 22 that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria poses a bigger threat to U.S. national security than al-Qaeda. Once public enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden met his...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 22, 2015
Coming out swinging as a GOP presidential candidate, 69-year-old New York real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump, has the Republican establishment in fits. Trading barbs with his fellow GOP candidates, Trump shows out-of-the gate that he won’t be...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 21, 2015
Speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual meeting in Pittsburgh, President Barack Obama launched his own preemptive strike against his critics on Capitol Hill over his hard-fought July 14 P5+1 [U.S., U.K, France, Russia, China and Germany] Iranian nuke deal....