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There’s something sad about a man so carelessly revealing himself as entirely inadequate to the moment. Government spending is an existential threat to the United States. Whether or not anyone at the White House knows this, the viziers decided to shove the sultan out on stage with a pitifully unserious speech retreating to all his lamest tropes – the usual whiny, petty and unpresidential partisan snippiness, and the ponderous demolition of straw men even he barely bothered to pretend he believed in: Politicians are often eager to feed the impression that solving the problem is just a matter of eliminating...

10 years ago today in history, February 28, 1994, six Serb Soko J-21 Jastreb ( RVRS ) combat jets were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Four were shot down by USAF F-16's as part of the then Operation Deny Flight. At the time, U.N. officials said the Serb jets struck an arms plant run by Bosnia's Muslim-led government. Capt. Robert Wright, flying F-16C #89-2137, got three kills; one with an AIM-120 and two using the AIM-9. Capt. Scott O'Grady fired an AIM-9 at a fourth J-21 but it missed. Two more F-16s arrived and S. Allen, flying...