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...
by drjmcurtis | Jun 22, 2015
Since the Eurozone launched Jan. 1, 1999, it didn’t take long for the honeymoon to wear off in Greece, where transitioning from the affordable drachma to the pricey euro seemed OK at first but headed south quickly. With Greece’s socialized government, its $2.07...