Epstein Secrets

war in Southeast Asia was a dism=l failure. Even as he was telling the media that the saturation bomb=ngs of Vietnam and Laos were "very effective," Nixon was =rivately acknowledging the opposite. "We have had 10 ye=rs of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam," Nixon wro=e to his secretary of stat

ill Kristol =ailed for "national greatness conservatism" in the =radition of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. A more populist alternative=was offered by Pat Buchanan, a mix of nativism, protectionism and 4>=9Cculture war." But instead of fading from the scene and opening t=e way to new thinking, old-fashioned Buc

ve to confront the ultimate issue. But it was not the same Court that had been sitting when the strategy was originally devised; there were four new Nixon appointees, and it was clear that at least some of them believed the death penalty to be constitutional. The umpires — if not the rules — had been ch

e jurors simply apply the law to the facts and not distinguish among murders on the basis of motive. The jury understood—even if the prosecutors and Pat Buchanan did not—the differences between love and hate, between a self-willed voluntary death and a death involuntarily imposed by others. After weeks of tria

is at an all-time high. The electorate wants economic change NOW. But, then there’s Hillary Clinton’s take on the economy and the Obama record. Like Pat Buchanan’s protectionist niche some 20 years ago, there is a segment of America that truly likes the Obama record. But, that segment is not even close to being

s in mid-2000. Just compare the ascent of the employment to adult population ratio for the eight years of Obama to the Johnson years, or even to the Nixon years, and especially to the Reagan and Clinton years. This Obama economy really isn’t a recovery, let alone a strong recovery, as one would expect s