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

ich is the most influential opponent of sensible gun-control policies, bears any responsibility for the growing number of massacres like Newtown and Columbine. On Friday, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the association, excoriated games like Bulletstorm, another game made by Electronic Art

e next big thing is likely to be fear." For the America that is gone, the America that could have it all and feel no pain beyond that on cable TV, George W. Bush was the perfect president. We could have a big tax cut (or at least some of us could) along with increases in spending for better schools and defens

g gas. Faith-based institutions would take care of the poor and unfortunate. No serviceman would have to spend any more time in harm's way than Mr. Bush (or most political leaders of his generation, regardless of party) did during Vietnam. Since Tuesday, there has been a towering leader in view — Ru

and feel no pain beyond that on cable TV, George W. Bush was the perfect president. We could have a b

for most of us merely invitations to indulge in cost-free hyperventilation. EFTA00578597 From the rampaging fears over school shootings following Columbine (at a time when U.S. juvenile homicide rates were falling to a 33- year low) to the protracted bellicosity surrounding Elia') Gonzalez to the Calif

e answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everyone else. It's very sad to see." If that answer wasn't clueless enough on Friday Bush said, "But I resist the notion—and I had this challenge as governor—because we had—look, stuff happens, there's always a crisis. And the impulse is

ly don't talk about school shootings unless they inflict a level of devastation that makes them impossible to ignore. Most people are familiar with Columbine and Sandy Hook. When we look at the bigger picture, however, those mass shootings are revealed as tragic outliers in the overall trend of gun violen

rney's Office, Washington, D.C., in U.S. v. John W. Hinckley, Jr. (attempted assassination of Presid

00072963 Park Dietz, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Page 18 2000-2002 Consultant to the Office of the District Attorney, Jefferson County, Colorado re. the Columbine Psychiatric Autopsy Project (mass murder and suicides by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School in April 1999) 2000-2002 Consult