Epstein Secrets

ve a big stick and make sure that your adversaries know that you are not adverse to using it liberally. Otherwise, I find Brook's op-ed insightful. Paul ICrugman in and op-ed this week in the The Washington Post - Mooching Off Medicaid —'Conservatives like to say that their position is all about economic free

lse feels pressure to imitate, whether they want to or not, or whether it is in their best interest or not. Nowhere is this "brutality cascade" (as Brooks coined it) more rife then in politics. Let's say you are a normal person who gets into Congress. rather not spend all your time fund-raising. like

eaking rank with ultra-conservatives that have moved the GOP to the far, far right. In the article — Makers, Takers, Fakers — in the New York Times, Paul Krugman points out that while acknowledging that the many in the G.O.P. made stupid statements and pushed initiatives that are out of step with a majority

ti-urban sentiment has characterized those cultures for decades. But, so far, there have been more calls for change than actual evidence of change. Brooks continues by saying — it's probably futile to try to change current Republicans. It's smarter to build a new wing of the Republican Party, one that

tions leading to a "grand bargain." Compromise again would have to be almost entirely on the Democrats' side. More importantly, economist including Paul Krugman, Evan Soltas of Wonkblog and Joe Weisenthal say that the current budget deficit is overwhelmingly the result of the depressed economy, and it's not

generation did, what the World War II generation did -- we're asking not to bankrupt our children and we've got a shambolic, dysfunctional process," Brooks said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Most of the blame still has to go to the Republicans," he continued. "They've had a brain free