Another year, another massive, totally unsustainable national deficit. As 2019 comes to a close, the federal government is running deficits that make the mostly fiscally irresponsible George W. Bush administration look like deficit hawks. In the 2018-19 fiscal year, the federal government spent $984 billion more than it received in revenues, the highest deficit since 2012 when the economy was still in the midst of recovering from the 2008 economic crash. And there are no signs that the national government will soon come …

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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both campaigned for, and won, the White House on the watchword “hope.” What watchword will it take for a Democrat to win this time? My suggestion: soap. Nearly three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, America needs a hard scrub and a deep cleanse. It needs to wash out the grime and grease of an administration that every day does something to make the country feel soiled. Soiled by a president who, Castro-like, delivered a two-hour …

“You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know,” Trump told a gathering of young conservatives in West Palm Beach, Florida, over the weekend. Blasting some Democrats’ support for his least-favorite form of energy production, Trump claimed the process for manufacturing windmills in some countries creates air pollution for the entire planet. “It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — …

A Missouri veteran and father of three has started to emerge from a 10-week coma, giving his family the best Christmas gift they could imagine. “The doctors told me he probably wasn’t going to make it to the weekend,” Kyli Belt told KETV in Nebraska. Her husband, Tony Belt, went into the coma after a workplace accident when he fell 18 feet from a scissor lift and suffered a traumatic brain injury at the steel company where he works. This …

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WASHINGTON — It would have been a swell party. There was an oyster tower made from solid ice and charcuterie tables piled high in every room. The Charles Orban Champagne was flowing. And the site of this annual soiree, hosted by the French ambassador at the official residence, is one pretty pile of bricks. What there wasn’t: anyone recognizable from the White House. Not even Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, who used to attend. Who cares? The packs …

“The law states that Air Force Space Command will be re-designated the United States Space Force, that will happen immediately,” Gen. John Raymond, the commander of US Space Command and Air Force Space Command, told reporters at the Pentagon Friday. Raymond said that the 16,000 active duty airmen and civilians currently in the Air Force Space Command will be assigned to the new United States Space Force, though officials made clear those personnel will not actually become members of the …