by John M. Curtis | Apr 20, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Before leaving for a one-week recess, 52-year-old House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) acquiesced to Democrat claptrap that giving Ukraine $60 billion in new military aid would stop 71-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin from taking over Europe....
by John M. Curtis | Apr 20, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Warning about an acceleration of the book-banning movement, non-profit PEN America, an organization committed to free speech, said that book banning has hit crisis levels around the United States. Mostly stemming from conservative circles, book...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 19, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Finding 12 jurors and six alternates wasn’t easy in liberal New York City, where 77-year-old former President Donald Trump stands for trial of a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 19, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Hitting Iran back for its April 13 drone and missile strike, 74-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a measured strike on an Isfahan military base, letting the Ayatollah know that Israel responds to attacks on its territory....
by John M. Curtis | Apr 18, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said today he would advance separate foreign aid funding bills to the House floor where’s it’s certain to pass, handing 81-yar-old President Joe Biden the $95 billion he requested for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 18, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Iran’s April 14 missile and drone attack on Israel could change Iran’s emphasis on nuclear deterrence, largely because the strike on Israel was intercepted almost 100%, leaving Iran without any effective deterrence. Iran’s 84-year-old Supreme Leader...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 17, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Expecting the Federal Reserve Board to cut interest rates at least three times in 2024, a recent report on the Consumer Price Index [CPI] at 3.5% was greater than expected, prompting 71-year-old Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to put a damper on lower...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 17, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Going after 85-year-old libertarian Harvard emeritus and criminal defense Atty. Prof. Alan Dershowitz, the liberal press is outraged he said 77-year-old President Donald Trump has been the victim of criminal justice weaponization. Dershowitz said...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 16, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Former President Donald Trump’s, 77, hush money trial started in Judge Juan M. Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom with voir dire, the legal process of picking jurors, that can either benefit the prosecution or defense, both have different grounds for...
by John M. Curtis | Apr 16, 2024
LOS ANGELES.–Hearing arguments in Jan. 6, 2021 cases involving the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Supreme Court will rule on Fischer v. United States, whether or not the financial crimes bill that resulted from the Enron scandal can be used to convict-and-sentence...