Epstein Secrets

the cliff is for Obama and the Democrats to make more concessions. As such, Boehner passed the ball to the Senate pressuring them to extend all the Bush tax cuts and continue all current spending (lifting the debt limit along the way) -- unless or until a "grand bargain" on the budget is agreed to be

what many of the same people now opining about the evils of deficits said back when we had a surplus. People forget that back when we had a surplus, George W. Bush campaigned on the basis that the surplus of the late Clinton years meant that we needed to cut taxes — and Alan Greenspan provided crucial support,

le forget that back when we had a surplus, George W. Bush campaigned on the basis that the surplus of

and public debt rising from 22% of GDP then to over 90% today. France has always been at the heart of the euro, as of the European Union. President Francois Mitterrand argued for the single currency because he hoped to bolster French influence in an EU that would otherwise fall under the sway of a unified Germany.

presence," this former official said—to balance the growing power and influence of Beijing. Indeed, America's favorability ratings are well up from George W. Bush's second term—another sign the world has moved beyond the post-Iraq narrative. Out of 38 countries the Pew Research Center polled in 2013, in only

s favorability ratings are well up from George W. Bush's second term—another sign the world has moved b

ca's favorability ratings are well up from George W. Bush's second term—another sign the world has mo

4268 protection against both a resurgent Germany and the Soviets in the late 1940s. This was the America whose movie-actor president Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand and Margaret Thatcher looked to for trans-Atlantic solidarity, and to whom Polish workers and Soviet dissidents turned for hope and inspiration. Th

to prominence with the argument that global economic interdependence rendered war futile and unprofitable and therefore obsolete. In the wake of the Bush administration, what lies in store for the future of America's presence abroad? Angell’s theory expressed the war-weary and wishful temper of the ti

eadiness of other countries to pressure Iran or North Korea since Obama, who supports global zero, became president, compared to the help we got when George W. Bush, who did not support global zero, was in office. Tough, effective measures to slow the spread of nuclear weapons are required—not utopian, solipsist

ergy and talent and had the audacity to smash the taboo that said a French politician can’t love America and prosper. Sarkozy was a doer. He thought Francois Mitterrand’s seductive phrase (in French at least) — “Il faut laisser le temps au temps” (You must let time take its course) — was baloney that left you with disa