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....
by drjmcurtis | Jul 20, 2015
At the top of 2016 GOP presidential polls, 69-year-old New York real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump took aim at sacred cows, including Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.). “He’s not a war hero,” Trump told GOP pollster Frank Luntz,...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 19, 2015
FBI officials cautioned Congress not to jump to conclusions about 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez’s Chattanooga massacre of four marines and one seaman at unarmed recruiting centers July 17. Looking into emails of the now deceased AK-47-wielding terrorist, the...
by drjmcurtis | Jul 18, 2015
Approving same-sex marriage June 26, the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to make gay marriage the law of the land. Today’s Associated Press-GK poll indicates that the nation remains split about opinions related to the SCOTUS decision, 47% favor the decision, 49% oppose....