Epstein Secrets

alist asked 'Does that mean we're bound to lose?' During hot 'small' wars, debate turned to Athens' calamitous Sicilian expedition as a parallel to Vietnam or Iraq. But with an emerging power challenging the existing strategic order of the Far East, attention turns back to the Greek precedent of bipola

l rules didn't apply. In particular, this was no time to worry about budget deficits and cut spending, which would only deepen the depression. When John Boehner, then the House minority leader, declared in early 2009 that since American families were having to tighten their belts, the government should tigh

e process of demobilizing the public certainly began with the military. It was initially a response to the disruptive and rebellious draftees of the Vietnam-era. In 1973, at the stroke of a presidential pen, the citizen's army was declared no more, the raising of new recruits was turned over to advertis

Congress their due, not quite nothing. They are proving capable of acting effectively to delegitimize the presidency as well. House Majority Leader John Boehner's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undercut the president's Iranian nuclear negotiations and the letter signed by 47 Repu

ressional role should pay closer attention to how two legislative giants changed the course of American foreign policy. On the left, the famed 1966 Vietnam hearings of Sen. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) awakened the nation to the tragedy of that war. Less known were Fulbright hearings on China that estab

ving contentious with the Obama administration insisting on the deal's merits and congressional critics highlighting its concessions. House Speaker John Boehner (R- Ohio), for instance, rged that the agreement be met "with healthy skepticism," while Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that it "does not seem pr

n now than even during Joe McCarthy's anti- communist witch hunts of the 195os, the tempestuous struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, the divisive Vietnam war, or the Watergate scandal? As Reich points out that if anything, you'd think this would be an era of relative calm. First of all, the Soviet Un

ntirely new cuts came to the House floor in the form of an actual bill for EFTA00678677 funding transportation and housing programs, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, confronted shaky support from less ardently conservative Republicans and decided to pull the $44 billion package on July 31. That sparked

LATION The vast majority of th= POPULATION has roots in North America -- particularly Mexico and Central America. China, the Philippines, Korea a=d Vietnam are among the top 10 countries of origin for the Asian illegal immigrant population, which has remained stable at 1.3 million -- about 11 percent of

going to see it=as a move outside the authority of the president, and it's going to be a very serious situation"). The spokesman for House SPEAKER John Boehner has calle= the president "Emperor Obama," implying that the executive acti=n is an unlawful decree, and Sen. TED CRUZ said on Fox News that "the pre

ce. No President since Dwight D. Eisenhower had served two full terms. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson, overwhelmed by the war in Vietnam, had declined to run for reelection in 1968. Richard Nixon resigned less than seventeen months into his second term. Gerald Ford (who was never el

ach an agreement: the debt ceiling had to be raised by the end of the summer. The Cantor-Biden talks ended two months later, and Obama and Speaker John Boehner worked until July to reach a "grand bargain" of modest tax hikes, entitlement reforms, and spending cuts. A fourth group, consisting of three Repub

They're doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it in the next campaign." The former FBI director, who earned a Purple Heart as a Marine in Vietnam and helped guide law enforcement during the traumatic aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, came out of retirement to investigate the Kremlin's efforts to

favor of the short-term spending bill Tuesday -- many fewer than the 76 Republicans who supported the last stop-gap bill." -- Former House speaker John Boehner returned to a Capitol transformed from heated partisanship into a cauldron of constitutional standoff. Paul Kane reports: "Officially there to unve