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...
by drjmcurtis | May 11, 2015
Today’s National Debt of over $18.2 trillion is expected to soar to $40 trillion in only 20 years, threatening the U.S. economy and value of the U.S. dollar. Politicians like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), subscribing to Carl Menger, Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk and Friedrich von...
by drjmcurtis | May 10, 2015
Telling Yahoo News’ Katie Couric that Washington “job titles” don’t count for experience, 60-year-old former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina proved she blows smoke than most GOP candidates.. “In a world that I come from, a title’s just a title,” insisted Fioina,...
by drjmcurtis | May 9, 2015
Showing the vindictive side of U.S. diplomacy, the U.S. and its Western allies, including Britain, France and Germany, boycotted Russia’s “V-Day” celebration, marking the 70th anniversary of defeating of Nazi Germany. Instead of shelving differences to pay respects to...
by drjmcurtis | May 8, 2015
Vowing to topple Syria’s Shiite government of Bashar al-Assad, Saudi Arabia and Turkey joined forces to back the rebel insurgency to end al-Assad’s reign of terror. While over 200,000 troops and civilians have lost their lives in Syria since the Arab Spring of March...