by drjmcurtis | Jul 11, 2015
Announcing for president June 16, 69-nine-year-old real estate tycoon and reality TV star Donald Trump rocked the GOP landscape, ripping illegal Mexican immigrants for being murders and rapists. Once viewed as a “carnival barker,” Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric won...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 10, 2015
Burning effigies of Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards celebrated “Quds” [Jerusalem] Day, demonstrating the late Ayatollah’s Ruhollah Khomenei’s dream of destroying Israel and returning Palestinians to the Promised Land. Khomenei’s Shiite Muslim sect...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 9, 2015
Reneging on a verbal agreement with 56-year-old NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, 26-year-old free agent Deandre Jordan found himself caught in a media firestorm. When he shocked the Clippers July 3 agreeing verbally to a four-year $80 million max deal with the...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 8, 2015
Locked in an epic 11th hour battle with 54-year-old Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to complete a nuke deal to slow Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and end punitive sanctions, last minute talks ground to a halt. Resisting inspections at Iran’s...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 7, 2015
Taking out the hatchets on GOP presidential candidate billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump, Republicans violated former President Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” Calling Mexican illegal...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 6, 2015
Since leaving office April 27, 64-year-old former Atty. Gen. Eric Holder has changed his tune about National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Once considered a traitor by Holder who charged Snowden with three felonies in 2013 for violating the U.S. Espionage...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 5, 2015
Voting [61% to 39%] down a new austerity-driven Eurozone bailout plan, Greeks overwhelmingly backed the leftist government of 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras and his 54-year-old Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, both urging a “no” vote in Sunday’s national referendum....
by drjmcurtis | Jul 4, 2015
Pushing Greece to the brink of economic ruin, 40-year-old leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has stepped too far off the ledge to come back. When Greeks vote on a referendum July 5 to either support or reject more Eurozone austerity, Tsipras and his 54-year-old...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 3, 2015
Getting down to crunch time, dragging beyond the June 30 extended deadline, for a nuclear deal with Iran, the P5+1, including the U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany, the U.S. grows impatient for yet a new drop dead date of July 7. Working feverishly to nail...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 2, 2015
Whipping up nationalism accusing the European Union of “blackmail,” 40-year-old Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Greek citizens to reject a kind of tyranny or slavery by Greek’s creditors. Refusing to make needed austerity reforms over the last five years,...