by drjmcurtis | Jul 1, 2015
Breaking all records for presidential fundraising, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton raised more than $45 million in the first quarter, attesting to her prodigious fundraising machine. Claiming much of the $45 million came from $100...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 30, 2015
Playing a dangerous game of chicken with the European Union, 40-year-old socialist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gambled and lost with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi’s Frankfurt-based European Central Bank. Spending over 240 billion euros...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 30, 2015
Declaring himself a 2016 GOP candidate for president, 52-year-old New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie started his uphill battle for the GOP nomination. Polling relative to other GOP candidates at 4%, Christine finds himself in a deep hole, hoping to attract one of the...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 29, 2015
Showing why he’s polling in a crowded 2016 GOP field at only four percent, 44-year-old first-term Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) went off-the-wall, insisting the Supreme Court “rewrote the Constitution,” ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges June 26 legalizing same-sex marriage....
by drjmcurtis | Jun 28, 2015
Calling the European Union’s bluff, 40-year-old Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras imposed capital controls, shuttering Greece’s banks Monday, after rejecting a bailout deal with EU finance ministers. Tsipras bet that Greece’s financial solvency is worth more to the...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 27, 2015
Greece’s 40-year-old Prime Minister Alex Tsipras has pushed the European Union finance ministers and Christine Lagarde’s International Monetary Fund to the brink, making unrealistic demands to Greece’s creditors. Begging for a $16 billion cash infusion as a part of...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 26, 2015
Handing another blow to the conservative cause, a divided Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 for posterity to permit same-sex marriage. What’s lost in the endless battle of dissenting opinions is that the case was never about religious, historical or traditional definitions...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 25, 2015
Ruling 6 to 3 the U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell, government subsidies for the Affordable Care Act continue, protecting over 6 million subscribers receiving untold millions in government help. Conservatives thought they had the legal ace-in-the-hole against a...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 24, 2015
Insisting publicly that Russia doesn’t supply arms or weapons to Alexandr Zakharchenko’s pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukaine, Russian President Vladimir Putin exposed himself as a master propagandist. When Malaysian Flight 17 was downed by a Russian...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 23, 2015
Ignoring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning about deploying military hardware near Russia’s western border, 60-year-old U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter answered pleas of Poland the Baltic States to have military reinforcements. Fearful that Putin could do...