by drjmcurtis | May 22, 2015
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus hopes that keeping Hillary’s role in the Sept. 11. 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya damages her 2016 presidential hopes. Establishing the House Select Committee on Benghazi May 5, 2014, Priebus...
by drjmcurtis | May 21, 2015
Battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups is bad enough for the U.S. and its Western allies. Capturing enough on-the-ground intel and coordinating with predator drones and Special Ops occupies much of U.S. military intelligence, planning...
by drjmcurtis | May 20, 2015
Reading economic tea leaves, Wall Street can’t figure out what Federal Reserved Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen and the Open Market Committee will do about raising interest rates when they meet in June to set monetary policy. Set at rock bottom Dec. 16, 2008 by former...
by drjmcurtis | May 19, 2015
Speaking to the press at the start of the NFL’s Spring league meetings, 73-year-old New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft threw in the towel on fighting Commissioner Roger Goodell on the Deflate-gate scandal. Accused of deflating footballs below the leaguer minimum...
by drjmcurtis | May 18, 2015
After steamrolling Iraq and Syria in 2014 capturing some 30% of sovereign land, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria captured the capital city of Ramadi in the Sunni-controlled Anbar Province. Massacring some 500 civilians before driving 8,000 to flee for their lives,...
by drjmcurtis | May 17, 2015
Hammered on his position on Iraq, 62-year-old former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush flip-flopped on the Iraq War, eventually saying he wouldn’t have gone in.. Only a week earlier, Jeb tried to back his brother, former two-term President George W. Bush’s decision to go to war...
by drjmcurtis | May 16, 2015
Sentenced to death May 15 in an Egyptian Court by Judge Shabaan El-Shamy together with 100 Muslim Brotherhood comrades, Egypt’s 64-year-old U.S. educated -President Mohamed Morsi heard the verdict in a wire cage. Morsi won Egypt’s first democratic election June 24,...
by drjmcurtis | May 15, 2015
Handing 21-year-old Dozhokhar Tsarnaev the death penalty, the lone surviving terrorist of the April 15, 2013 pressure cooker bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring 260, got his wish. Opting for the death penalty on 17-of-30...
by drjmcurtis | May 14, 2015
Speeding at over 106 mph into a 50 mph turn in Port Richmond, Penn, 32-year-old Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian claims, through his attorney Robert Goggin, he has amnesia over the incident. Goggin denies Bostian refused to give investigators information, including...
by drjmcurtis | May 13, 2015
Derailing May 12 about 9:30 pm [EST] at Port Richmond, Penn., Amtrak Northeast Regional 188 train carrying 238 passengers and five crew, including the engineer, going from Washington D.C. to New York’s Penn Station, spun off the tracks at high speed at an expected...