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The current federal budget fiscal year still has two months to go, but the deficit is already bigger now than it was for all of last year, and heading to more than $1 trillion. Naturally, the Trump tax cuts are getting the lion’s share of the blame. But the latest data on spending and revenues from the Treasury Dept. make it abundantly clear that it is out-of-control spending, not tax cuts, that are driving the deficit upward. Unfortunately, no one in Washington seems to care. From October last year through July this year, total revenues climbed 3.4%. That’s faster than...

Roughly one month ago, the White House announced that we were closing in on a safe third country agreement with Guatemala, scoring what was perceived as a major win on immigration for President Trump. At the time, we noted that there were several serious flaws in the plan which might prevent it from coming to fruition. One was the fact that the deal was being cut with a lame-duck president who was on his way out (Jimmy Morales) and we didn’t know who the next leader would be or what their view on the deal might look like. Also,...

Threatening to fool around with how the courts are constituted is yet another excursion toward totalitarianism on par with that found in every cheap, repressive dictatorship. Old Joe Stalin would probably think spending eternity in Hell is no small price to pay if it meant the Democrats in America were ready to impose his policies on hapless Americans. But those Crazy Dems just keep on pushing the envelope further and further. Now they’re threatening the Supreme Court. The way the Dems see it, if the Courts rule against their wishes then it stands to reason that there’s something wrong with...

Meanwhile, no one's asking now that someone's been able to pull it off, will prison 'suicide' be the best way to bury the truth? For any still holding out hope that the FBI will unearth the truth about Jeff Epstein’s curious ‘suicide’ in the Manhattan Correctional Center’s prison: Don’t hold your breath. Media reports on Epstein’s prison death should be—but isn’t—officially categorized as “alleged suicide”. For starters, the FBI will be investigating not provable facts, but allegations.

For the first time since the Great Recession, a major signal of impending recession has emerged. The inverted yield curve has sent investors running away from the stock market this morning, and appears to corroborate earlier warnings that the US economy is heading into a major problem: U.S. stocks tumbled at open Wednesday after the inverted yield curve, one of the most reliable indicators of a recession, sparked a new wave of investor fears, erasing the short-lived bump from TuesdayÂ’s trade easing.For the first time since 2007, the yields on short-term U.S. bonds eclipsed those of long-term bonds. This...

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019”. SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) incidents of targeted violence are impacting our Nation frequently and indiscriminately; (2) a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-jurisdictional behavioral threat assessment and management process on a Federal, State, local, and Tribal level complements the development of better methods for strategically preventing targeted violence in communities, including schools; (3) the United States has the capability to rapidly develop behavioral threat assessment and management guidelines and best practices; (4) the United...

Time to restructure the courts and take down PlannedParenthood.

A teenager who claims her mother took her electronics away seemingly resorted to what might be the last imaginable place to tweet from: a refrigerator.The plight of 15-year-old Twitter user "Dorothy" was noticed earlier this month after she kept tweeting about how her mom kept taking gadgets away from her, leaving her unable to tweet.The account, which appears to function as an Ariana Grande fan page, posted a tweet on Aug. 4 that read: "im leaving forever. my mom took my phone. ill miss u all sm. im crying. goodbye."Twitter, which shows where users' tweets are sent from, showed that the teen's...

Back on August 4, 2019 our editorial friends at the New York Times declared that “We Have a White Nationalist Terrorist Problem.” (H/T C.J. Hopkins) Of course they think that. Bless their hearts. Just imagine how things look from the New York Times building. Here they were, skimming along as unconcernedly as a seagull, basking in the sunset glow of the First Black President and finally, after 20,000 years of bigotry, gay marriage, and then the roof falls in. Some outer-borough yahoo gets elected President of the United States. What’s the first thing that the Good People would think? Exactly....

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What makes a great college football stadium? The best-of-the-best have the perfect mix of location, history, scenery, traditions, technology and, of course, fans who provide ultimate home-field advantage. In honor of college football's 150th anniversary, here are the top 10 stadiums in the sport's history.

GEORGIA – Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were indicted on Tuesday by a grand jury on tax evasion charges by the Northern District of Georgia. The 12-count indictment, obtained by CNN, also alleges the Chrisleys committed bank fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, among other offenses. The married couple are stars of the USA Network reality series “Chrisley Knows Best,” which follows their family’s over-the-top lifestyle and activities. Before the indictment was issued, Todd Chrisley took to Instagram to deny the claims, implying the charges are based on evidence presented to investigators by a disgruntled former employee. He alleged...

A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday shot down an attempt by House Judiciary Committee Democrats to link their subpoena for former White House counsel Don McGahn to a separate request for secret grand jury information from the Russia investigation after the Justice Department accused them of trying to "game the system." Normally cases are assigned to judges randomly, which the DOJ said is meant to keep parties from “attempting to game the system” by “shopping” for a judge they like. But in a Tuesday court filing, the department alleged the Democrat-controlled committee was trying to do exactly that by exploiting...

What if it were neither murder nor suicide? ~Huge Snip~ But there is a more promising and seemingly more concrete body of evidence, which offers insight into Epstein’s psychological profile and possible motive.According to the New York Post, court documents released the day before his death disclosed that Epstein “had an insatiable sexual appetite” and “required three orgasms a day.” If true, then how would Epstein go about indulging his sexual urges while in jail? One likely way would be autoerotic asphyxiation, a practice by which an individual intentionally restricts the flow of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual...

There are two competing theories being debated today about American individuals’ “right” to gun ownership. The original theory is that Americans enjoy a fundamental right to self-defense, in order to preserve one’s person and property against any neighbors or government agents who might act against one’s individual liberty. This is a natural right that predates our government’s formation, and was therefore enshrined in the Constitution by some very forward-thinking liberals of their time. In the words of the Second Amendment: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and...

It’s going to be a Biden/Kamala ticket. Biden may pick Michele Obama as his running mate as well. If Kamala softens any criticism of Joe, you’ll know they’re already talking. Thoughts?

After the recent high-profile mass shootings, lawmakers are again faced with the questions of how to stop gun violence and if Congress can get through the historic gridlock on gun control. While there is bipartisan agreement that something needs to be done to stop gun violence, the two parties cannot unify on what the specifics are. Democrats want immediate gun control legislation while Republicans are focused more on mental health to root out the epidemic. Hoping to break through the gridlock, Senator Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), and Joe Manchin,(D-W. Va) sponsored a bipartisan bill. Their bill aims to expand background checks...

Scaramucci makes my skin crawl.

1900: After fighting their way 80 miles from the port of Tientsin, an eight-nation relief force (the United States, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, and Italy) arrives at the walls of Peking. A young Marine private named Dan Daly earns his first of two Medals of Honor during the battle by single-handedly holding off hundreds of Chinese soldiers. Meanwhile, U.S. Army Cpl. Calvin P. Titus (depicted above, holding flag) earns the Medal of Honor for volunteering to scale the city wall surrounding Peking. The troops break the siege, effectively bringing an end to the Boxer Rebellion. In our...

Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said. Four drugs were trialled on patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is a major outbreak of the virus. More than 90% of infected people can survive if treated early with the most effective drugs, the research showed. The drugs will now be used to treat all patients with the disease in DR Congo, according to health officials. On Tuesday, two people cured of Ebola using the experimental drugs were released from a treatment centre...