by drjmcurtis | Oct 21, 2015
Ending his off-and-on-again speculation about a 2016 run for president, 72-year-old Vice President Joe Biden finally threw in the towel, citing lingering grief over his 46-year-old son Beau Biden’s May 30 death from brain cancer. Reaching a fever’s pitch over whether...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 20, 2015
Real estate tycoon and GOP front-runner Donald Trump showed his cunning side, bating former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to defend his brother’s, former President George W. Bush, handling of Sept. 11. Trump told CNN’s “New Day” with Chris Cumo today that Sept. 11 happened on...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 19, 2015
Telling Iran to stop “meddling” in its backyard, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir warned Iran of consequences for backing the Shiite government of Syrian President Bashar-al Assad. Saudi Arabia funded Syria’s civil since March 11, 2011, when the Kingdom tried to...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 18, 2015
Sinking from front-runner to only 5%, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush attacked GOP front-runner real estate mogul Donald Trump. Jeb accused Trump on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper of running his campaign like his “Celebrity Apprentice” reality TV show,...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 17, 2015
Testifying before 51-year-old Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) Benghazi Select Committee Oct. 22, former Secretary of State and Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to expose on national TV the committee’s partisan charade. When former shoe-in for House...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 16, 2015
Awaiting the Oct. 16 Sony Pictures release of “Truth,” CBS Corp. has refused to sell advertising on their vast TV network and cable affiliates, exposing the dirty truth about print and broadcast journalism: That they’re not immune to politics. “Truth” stars...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 15, 2015
White House officials criticized Israel for using “excessive force” in Jerusalem, trying to contain a new Palestinian uprising, seeing youth attack Israelis on the streets with knives, hatchets, screwdrivers and any homemade weapons. Regardless of the ongoing...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 14, 2015
Sending 300 U.S. military personnel to Cameroon to combat the West African terrorist group Boko Haram, President Barack Obama showed he isn’t hesitant to combat terrorism on the African continent. Unwilling to send U.S. ground troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 13, 2015
When 65-year-old House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohi0) announced his retirement Sept. 25, it was all but a done-deal who would succeed him. Groomed as his successor, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was all-but-certain to replace Boehner until he...
by drjmcurtis | Oct 12, 2015
A leading financier of U.S. presidential libraries and other nonprofit organizations, cheap Saudi Arabia petrodollars fuel the current civil war in Syria, where the Royal family’s Sunni-Wahhabi Islamic brand attempts eclipse all others. Warning of “dangerous...