Epstein Secrets

n between our troubles with Syria and Iran is pretty straightforward. The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is Iran's closest ally, and its link to the Arab Middle East. Syria has provided the land bridge for the transport of Iranian weapons and militants to Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Without Syria, Iran's pretens

kely see Israeli- Palestinian negotiations as a bottomless pit for diplomatic energy rather than as a priority. If Obama is reelected, he will have no Middle East hands to whom he can turn. Mideast advisor Dennis Ross has left; Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, departed for

ill in all likelihood leave when a new secretary of state is appointed or a few months later. In January 2009, Obama appointed Mitchell as special Middle East envoy on his second day in office. That kind of priority will not be assigned to the "peace process" in January 2013 -- no matter who wins. The ne

ion reform, a major reform of the tax code, and an arms- control treaty with the Soviets. He also appointed two conservative Supreme Court Justices, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. He ended his Presidency with an approval rating of more than fifty-five per cent. Obama entered office with what many conside

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n the middle of a long-running court trial, an impending vacation creates pressure for lawyers — and possibly jurors. Read full article » DOL Pick Scalia Earned $6.2M At Gibson Dunn Since 2018 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Eugene Scalia, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Labor De

refused to give black Americans any land while through an act of Congress the government give away millions of acres of land in the West and in the Midwest. The American government willingly provided an undergird for white peasants from Europe with an economic floor, including free land, land-grant coll

d carry guns. This is partly because in June 2008, the Supreme Court broke with 200 years of precedent and — in a 5-to-4 decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia — created an individual right to gun ownership that has made common-sense regulation of guns much harder. In his powerful dissent in that case (Dis

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refused to consider Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, the choice of President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February." Reuters <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-barrett/democrats-to-boycott-senate-panel-vote-on-trump- supreme-court-pick-idUS

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refused to consider Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, the choice of President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February." Reuters (10/21) reports Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham "has signaled that even with Democrats boycotting he will be able to move th

Israel loves Iran," "Iran loves Israel" and even "Palestine loves Israel." Ronny Edry of Israel accidentally created an online movement for peace in the Middle East when he posted a Facebook image that declared "Iranians, we will never bomb your country." This is the courageous thing to do: to try to reach the o

sition to her nomination. (Justice Kagan had never owned or shot a gun, but since joining the court has taken lessons and gone hunting with Justice Antonin Scalia, pronouncing the experience "kind of fun.") The new Big Ugly is that the has begun to involve itself in lower court nominations as well, where it c

smuggle a carton of Lucky Strike cigarettes to Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir, who he had known from their earliest Zionist days together in the Midwest. Since Justice Goldberg had very few clerks—he served only three terms—he was able to remain close to all of us. He invited us to his famous Passov

he most contentious and influential figures of the age including William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Meyer Kahana, Rabbi Adan Steinzaltz, Justice Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Golda Meir, Red Auerbach, William Kunstler, Roy Cohn, Norman Mailer, Patrick Buchanan, Norman Podhoretz, Bill