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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He's editor of OnlineColumnist.com, columnist for LA Examiner.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma. Dr. Curtis is considered the nation's leading authority on SPIN in the news. His nonpartisan commentaries appear in domestic and foreign newspapers.
Iran Threatens to Block Strait of Hormuz December 28, 2011
Real Estate Market Poised for Rebound December 27, 2011
Ron Paul's Appeal to Disgruntled Voters December 26, 2011
Nation's Crumbling Mental Health System December 25, 2011
Suicide Bombings Hit Baghdad After U.S. Exit December 22, 2011
Russia's Answer to Star Wars:  Satan December 20, 2011
NKorea Kim Jong Il's Death Rattles Markets December 19. 2011
Iran Breaches U.S. Predator Drone Program December 17, 2011
McCain Tweets Putin Into Tirade December 16, 2011
Obama Officially Ends Iraq War December 15, 2011
Europe's Fix Not Just Smoke and Mirrors December 13, 2011
Obama Marks End to Divisive Iraq War December 12, 2011
Gingrich Antagonizes Palestinians December 10, 2011
NBA David Stern Abuses His Authority December 9, 2011
Putin Accuses U.S. of Meddling in Russian Politics December 8, 2011
NASA Gropes for Relevance in Space December 7, 2011
Merkel and Sarkozy Lose Eurozone Magic December 6, 2011
Herman Cain Suspends Presidential Bid December 5, 2011
Wall Street's Amnesia Cheerleading December 4, 2011
U.S. and Israel Beat Iranian War Drums December 3, 2011
Mayor and Police Sweep Occupy LA Off the Streets December 2, 2011
Judge Pastor Throws Book at Dr. Conrad Murray December 1, 2011
Sex Abuse Scandal Hits Syracuse November 28, 2011
Teach for America's Uncertain Outcome November 27, 2011
Russia's Medvedev Threatens New Cold War November 25, 2011
Iran Calling the Nuclear Shots November 24, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Grabs the Headlines November 21, 2011
Iran Goes Nuclear November 19, 2011
NBA Digs In for Long Cold Winter November 18, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Obamacare November 16, 2011
Supercommittee's Partisan Disgrace November 13, 2011
Eurozone Rearranges Deckchairs on Titanic November 12, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Mounting Legal Woes November 11, 2011
 Penn State's Child Sex Abuse Scandal  November 9, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Criminal Conviction November 8, 2011
Herman Cain Damages the GOP November 7, 2011
Israel Warns Iran About Nuclear Ambitions November 6, 2011
McCourts' Dodger Ownership Nears End November 5, 2011
Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice, Shame on Herman Cain November 4, 2011
Herman Cain Caught with His Pants Down November 3, 2011
Hedge Funds Spoil Wall Street's Parade November 2, 2011
Murray's Star Witness Blows More Smoke November 1, 2011
Taliban Blast Kills 17 NATO Troops October 29, 2011
Barbara Walters Exposes Bernie Madoff October 28, 2011
Dr.  Conrad Murray's Defense Team Strikes Back October 27, 2011
NBA Players Assn. Self-Destructs October 25, 2011
McCain and GOP Friends Blast Obama on Iraq October 24, 2011
Romney-Perry Mix It Up in GOP Debate Octobert 18, 2011
Robert Downey Jr.'s Mel Gibson Plea October 16, 2011
"Occupy Wall Street" Spreads to Rome October 15, 2011
Propofol Expert Testifies Against Murray October 14, 2011
Iran Plots to Assassinate  U.S. Saudi Ambassador October 12, 2011
NBA Players Assn. Overplays its Hand October 11, 2011
Romney's Faith Not Relevant to the GOP October 10, 2011
Supercommittee Deadlocked on Deficit Reduction October 9, 2011
Jury Hears Murray's Police Interview October 8, 2011
Wall Street Protests a Sign of the Times October 7, 2011
Jurors Hear Audio of Jackson's Slurred Speech October 6, 2011
U.S. Economy Teetering on Double-Dip October 5, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry Snared by Racial Slur October 4, 2011
Cheney Lashes Out Again at Obama October 3, 2011
Obama's Relenless Al-Qaeda Pursuit October 2, 2011
Murray Covered His Tracks in Jackson's Death October 1, 2011
Government's Phony Excuse for Bin Laden Secrecy September 28, 2011
Opening Statements in Dr. Conrad Murray Trial September 27, 2011
Wall Street Buried by Eiurozone Debt September 26, 2011
Global Leaders Try to Fix Eurozone Crisis September 24, 2011
Abbas' U.N. Bid for Palestinian Statehood September 23, 2011
Short  Selling Takes Down  U.S. Stock Market September 22, 2011
Perry Attacks Obama's Mideast Policy September 20, 2011
Easy Fix to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict September 18, 2011
Palestinians' U.N. End-Run to Statehood Septembers 16, 2011
Tea Party Seeks Return to Colonial Days September 14, 2011
AMA Defends Dr. Murray Against Criminal Acts September 12, 2011
Taliban's Sept. 11 Surprise September 11, 2011
Sept. 11 Ten-Year Anniversary September 10, 2011
Appeals Court Rejects Murray's Urgent Request September 9, 2011
GOP's Reagan Library Presidential Debate September 8, 2011
Eurozone  Sovereign Debt Crisis Sinks U.S. Stocks September 7, 2011
Cheney Stirs the Pot for New Book Promotion September 6, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Defense in Full Panic September 5, 2011
Jobs Stall in Obama's Economy September 4, 2011
Cheney's Memoir Irks Former Bush Officials September 3, 2011
Defense in Dr. Conrad Murray Case Runs Scared September 2, 2011
Obama's Consumer Confidence Sinks in August September 1, 2011
Dick Cheney's Long-Awaited  Memoir August 29, 2011
Iran's Ahmadinejad Calls to Eradicate Israel August 26, 2011
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Calls It Quites August 25, 2011
Standard & Poor's Dumps CEO Deven Sharma August 24, 2011
Goldman Sachs in Eye of Wall Street Storm August 23, 2011
NATO Ends Gaddafi's 42-Year Terrorist Reign August 22, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Campaign Gaffes August 18, 2011
Merkel and  Sarkozy's Desperate Eurozone Measures August 17, 2011
One Answer to the U.S. National Debt August 16, 2011
Bachmann Wins Big in Iowa's Straw Poll August 15, 2011
Republicans Changing Their Tune on Taxes August 11, 2011
U.K. Anarchy Could Spread Across the Pond August 10, 2011
Taliban Gets Upper Hand in Afghan War August 9, 2011
Standard & Poors Damges U.S. Economy August 8, 2011
S&P Over the Top Downgrading U.S. Credit August 6, 2011
Tea Party's Growing Chokehold on the GOP Auguust 5, 2011
Wall Street Downed by Profit-Taking August 4, 2011
Syria's Crackdown Demands U.N. Attention August 3, 2011
NBA Sues Players Union to Avoid Antitrust Case August 2, 2011
Short Sellers Spoil Wall Street's Party August 1, 2011
Debt-Deal Readies Wall Streets's Launching Pad July 31, 2011
Deadline to Economic Doomsday July 30. 2011
Muslim Soldier Inspired by Fort Hood Terrorist July 28, 2011
Los Angeles NFL Deal Down to Brass Tacks July 26. 2011
Republicans Play Chicken with U.S. Economy July 25, 2011
Republicans Hold U.S. Economy Hostage July 24, 2011
Rupert  Murdoch's Crumbling Media Empiire July 23, 2011
Roger Clemens' Fishy Mistrial July 15, 2011
GOP's Risky Political Debt Gamble July 13, 2011
Taliban Kills Hamid Karzai's Halif-Brother July 12, 2011
Roger Clemens Guilty as Sin in Perjury Trial July 11, 2011
Panetta's Pie-In-The-Sky On Al-Qaeda July 10, 2011
End of NASA and the Space Shuttle Program July 9, 2011
CNN Dumps Eliot Spitzer's "In the Arena" July 6, 2011
Washington's Debt-Ceiling Charade Nears End July 5, 2011
Treasury Secretary Geithner Heads for the Exit July 4, 2011
Former IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Released July 3, 2011
NBA Owners Not Bluffing About Insolvency July 2, 2011
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Obamacare July 1, 2011
Greeks Riot Over  ECB Austerity Bailout June 28, 2011
Dodgers' Frank McCourt Pulls Bankruptcy Card June 27, 2011
New York Passes Same-Sex Marriage June 25, 2011
Bipartisan House Slaps Obama on Libya June 24, 2011
Dodgers' Frank McCourt Rejected by MLB June 21, 2011
Wall Street Bounces Back After Slide June 20, 2011
IMF Predicts Lower U.S. Growth June 17, 2011
Obama's Libya Fence-Sitting Gets Him Into Trouble June 15, 2011
Lawyer  Questions Prop 8 Ban by Gay Judge June 13, 2011
Iraq Rebuffs U.S. Congressional Delegation June 12, 2011
Gates Blasts NATO for the Wrong Reasons June 10, 2011
Rep. Anthony Weiner's X-Rated Mental Illnesss June 9, 2011
Al-Zawahiri Now Al-Qaeda's Chief Propagandist June 8, 2011
Rep. Anthony Weiner's Dark Secret June 7, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Pleads Not Guilty June 6, 2011
Gates Refuses to Accept Reality in Afghanistan June 5, 2011
Economy Is Obama's Achilles Heel June 4, 2011
Edwards Indicted by Federal Grand Jury June 3, 2011
Romney Is GOP-Obama-Basher-in-Chief June 2, 2011
MLB's Fire Sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers June 1, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Defense Team Wins Delay May 29, 2011
Russia's Medvedev Tells Kadafi to Go May 27, 2011
NATO Escalates War Against Kadafi May 26, 2011
Netanyahu Speaks to Congress May 24, 2011
Europe's Sovereign Debt Hits U.S. Stock Market May 23, 2011
Obama Offers 1967-Sized Carrot to Paleestinians May 22, 2011
IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Sexual Assualt May 19, 2011
Arnold and Maria's Marriage on the Rocks May 18, 2011
Big Oil Gouges Consumers and Damages Economy May 15, 2011
Battle Fatigue Does in Los Angeles Lakers May 12, 2011
Plunging Oil Prices Drag Down Stock Market May 11, 2011
Clues About What Really Happened with Bin Laden May 10, 2011
Hamas Joins Fatah in Unity Government May 9, 2011
Bin Laden's Cowardly Downfall May 8, 2011
Bin Ladens's Death Changes U.S. Foreign Policy May 7, 2011
U.S. Economy Keeps on Rolling May 6, 2011
Bin Laden's Photo and Burial Controversy May 5, 2011
Obama Rolls the Dice and Wins Big Politically May 4, 2011
U.S. and Pakistan Blow Smoke  Over Raid May 3, 2011
Obama Gets Osama bin Laden May 2, 2011
Giffords' Battle with Traumatic Brain Injury April 27, 2011
Trump Whips Up Veiled Racism April 25, 2011
ElBaradei Auditions for Egyptian President April 23, 2011
LA Dodgers Driven Into Receivership April 21, 2011
Obama's Libya Fiasco April 19, 2011
Wall Street's Unending Profit-Taking April 18, 2011
Obama Fine-Tuning His Libya Policy April 16, 2011
Barry Bonds' Miscarriage of Justice Aprill 14, 2011
Catherine Zeta-Jones' "Bipolar Disorder" April 13, 2011
Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Disaster April 12, 2011
Libya's Mexican Standoff April 10, 2011
Oil Prices Threaten to Tank the Economy April 9, 2011
Trump Bashes Obama on His Citizenship April 8, 2011
Tea Party Holds U.S. Economy Hostage April 7, 2011
Bonds' Federal Perjury Trial Mercifully Ends April 6, 2011
Obama in Political Hot Water April 5, 2011
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Comes to His Senses April 4, 2011
Economic Recovery Moving in Right Direction April 3, 2011
Obama Walks a Risky Tightrope on Libya April 2, 2011
Bonds' Perjury Trial Sinks to New Lows April 1, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Jury Selection Fiasco March 28, 2011
GOP's Political Shots at Obama's Libya Policy March 27, 2011
Bonds' San Francisco Federal Perjury Trial March 25, 2011
Obama's Measured Approach to Libya March 23, 2011
Wall Street Manipulation All  Over the Map March 21, 2011
U.S. and Allies Go for Kadafi's Knockout Punch March 20, 2011
U.S.-Led Global Coalition Attacks Kadafi March 19, 2011
U.N. Finally Approves Attack on Kadafi March 18, 2011
Indecision Hands Libya Back to Kadafi March 15, 2011
No Time to Bash the Nuclear Power Industry March 14, 2011
Obama Gets Closer to Intervening in Libya March 12, 2011
Charlie Sheen's Rant Moves to the Courts March 10, 2011
Kadafi's Saddam-Like Scortched Earth Policy March 9, 2011
Stock Market Gyrates from Libyan Crisis March 8, 2011
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Spell Civil War March 7, 2011
U.S. Must Act Fast to Support Libyan Rebels March 6, 2011
Obama Faces His Biggest Test in Libya March 4, 2011
Stocks Surge on Good Unemployment Data March 3, 2011
U.S. Foreign Policy Hamstrumg in Libya March 2, 2011
Oil Companies Profit from Mideast Crisis March 1, 2011
Academy's Age-Bias Sinks "The Social Network" February 28, 2011
State Budgets Badly Out-of-Whack February 26, 2011
Charlie Sheen's Ballistic Episodes Continue February 25, 2011
Somali Pirates Murder with Impunity February 23, 2011
Wisconsin's Super Bowl Union Fight February 21, 2011
China's Totalitarian Crackdown February 20, 2011
Federal Reserve Board's Unhappy Task February 18, 2011
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Traumatic Brain Injury February 16, 2011
No Happy Ending to Tehran's Street Protests February 15, 2011
Tiger's "Inner Game" Out-of-Whack February 13, 2011
Egypt Liberated from Mubarak's Piracy February 11, 2011
Los Angeles DA Grandstands with Lindsay Lohan February 10, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Insulting Defense February 9, 2011
Mubarak:  Egypt's Biggest Grave Robber February 8, 2011
Sen. Kerry Speaks Out on Afghanistan February 7, 2011
Reagan's Centennial Legacy Revisited February 6, 2011
Obama Shows a Steady Hand in Egypt February 4, 2011
U.S. Throws Mubarak Under the Bus February 3, 2011
Panic Hits Egyptian Streets and Beyond February 2, 2011
Florida Judge Tosses Out Obamacare February 1, 2011
Egypt's Revolution Ends Mubarak's Reign January 30, 2011
U.S. Walks a Dangerous Line with Egypt January 28, 2011
Fed Still Sees a Weak U.S. Economy January 26, 2011
Great Expectations for the State of the Union January 25, 2011
Ouestions of Violence and Mental Illness January 24, 2011
Obama Promises to Put Economy Into Overdrive January 22, 2011
U.S. Barks Up the Wrong Tree with China January 19, 2011
Obama Eases Cultural Exchanges with Cuba Jnauary 15, 2011
RNC Tosses Steele for Evangelical Priebus January 14, 2011
U.S. Economy on the Mend January 13, 2011
Caution Before Tossing Out Vaccine-Autism Link Jnauray 10, 2011
Psycho Gunman Wounds Rep. Gabrielle Giffords January 9. 2011
Obama's Reelection Chances Looking Up January 8, 2011
House Republicans Vow to Repeal Obamacare January 7,  2011
New Evidence Against Dr. Conrad Murray January 6, 2011
Muqtada al-Sadr Returns to Claim Iraq January 5, 2011
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa's Partisan Agenda January 4, 2011
NYMEX Traders Drive Oil Prices Into Outer Space January 3, 2011
Oil's New Threat to the U.S.  Economy January 2, 2011
Dr. Conrad Murray's Incredulous Defense January 1, 2011

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