Epstein Secrets

ecord- breaking 385 times, or as much as it was used in the seven decades between World War I and the end of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in 1989. According to a current study, since 2007 Republican lawmakers have tried to torpedo more than 70 percent of all bills before they were eve

sarmed the "Evil Empire," sent Marines into Lebanon, and brought them home again after 241 soldiers died in the bombing of the USS Cole. Otherwise, Reagan only captured tiny Grenada in the name of liberty. Bill Clinton recalled US troops from Somalia after images of a dead US soldier's body being dra

ople "earlier than just about any other country." This is not quite true: As late as January 12, two days before Tunisian strongman Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali fell, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asserted -- twice -- that the United States was "not taking sides." It would be nearly impossible, conside

nfrontation and deterrence as the foundations of the relationship. Military blocs would be refashioned into political organizations. What President Reagan dubbed "the evil empire" would be the good neighbor. "The long winter of world conflict based on the division of Europe seems to be approaching an

e refashioned into political organizations. What President Reagan dubbed "the evil empire" would be the good neigh

There are disagreements in the party on what decisions to make and compromises to give. In the party congress, I wasn't elected by 99 percent, like Ben Ali. Seventy percent voted for me. Maybe this 70 percent has gone down a bit because of the compromises we had to give, but I think the majority of the

ad the weakest recovery since the Great Depression and stubbornly high joblessness. The nearby chart compares rates of quarterly growth during the Reagan and Obama economic recoveries. The comparison is apt because both recoveries followed deep recessions in which the jobless rate reached more than 1

re demanding to be rid of him. The senior commanders of the armed forces cast him aside, and he joined his fellow despot, Tunisia's Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had fallen a month earlier. From Cairo, the awakening became a pan-Arab affair, catching fire in Yemen and Bahrain. As a monarchy, the latter

thousands times, boiled over in a month of demonstrations against Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. To the amazement of the Arab world, Mr. Ben Ali fled the country when the military declined to back him by brutally putting down the demonstrations. Spurred on by televised images and YouTube vide

alance between personal responsibility and private markets on the one hand and public responsibility and social welfare on the other — at least since Ronald Reagan and perhaps since F.D.R. The battle ahead “is the big one, and goes to the very major questions about the role of government,” said G. William Hoagl

cial welfare on the other — at least since Ronald Reagan and perhaps since F.D.R. The battle ahead “is th

st. It's over: Enough of the nameless graves that whisper of horror, enough of the 20th-century police states in the 21st-century. Yes, it's over for Ben Ali and for Mubarak. It's over for Qaddafi, yes it is. How far it's over for the other Arab despots and autocrats, whether of the oxymoronic "republics"

f its pride and nerve under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. And

s a certain enchantment to any view. The West - mainly the Anglo-American part of it - had recovered some of its pride and nerve under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. And there was the growing evidence of post-colonial regimes' failure, violence and corruption, especial

ds; it was relatively easy to construct a coalition of the (semi-)willing in the United Nations, NATO and the Arab League to oppose the man President Ronald Reagan once dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East"' -- a tin pot and often bizarre dictator who opposed reform and political change. If you wanted to const

he Arab League to oppose the man President Ronald Reagan once dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East"' --

demonstrations sparked by the self-immolation of a twenty-six-year-old man who had been reduced to scratching out a living as a humble street vendor. Ben Ali, along with his hated wife and family, chose to go into exile before a single shot had been fired. In Egypt, if press reports are to be believed, the