by John M. Curtis | Jan 7, 2023
Whatever 76-year-old former President Donald Trump’s sway with the GOP, he showed yesterday, with 57-year-old year-old House Speaker Rep. Kevn McCarthy (R-Calif.) that he still has sway with conservatives. McCarthy became Speaker after midnight Jan. 7 once 48-year-old...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 6, 2023
Sailing the U.S. Arleigh Burke-guided missile destroyer Chun-Hoon into the Taiwan Strait, the White House poked the Big Panda one more time, sending U..S. Chinese relations into there lowest level in generations. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 60, shows once...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 6, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin, 70, told 69-year-old Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that to end the Ukraine War Kiev must accept certain territories in Ukraine lost in the 11-month-old war. Shortly after the Feb. 24 invasion, Putin told Ukraine’s 44-year-old...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 5, 2023
Former House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), 57, went down by some 18 votes to another failed round to voting for House Speaker. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 82, slammed Republicans as disgracing the institution but, more importantly,...
by John M. Curtis | Jan 4, 2023
President Joe Biden, 80, joined 80-year-old Senate Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to show how bipartisanship works in Washington, celebrating Biden’s historic Nov. 15, 2021 $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Whatever Biden accomplishes over the next two years, his bipartisan...