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  • The Pentagon is Even More Bloated than You Thought

    The Pentagon is Even More Bloated than You Thought0

    An internal study at the Department of Defense identified $125 billion in wasteful spending, the Washington Post reports. But government officials buried the report out of fear lawmakers would make defense cuts in the ensuing budget. Via Bob Woodward and Craig Whitlock at the Post: Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their

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  • The Pentagon Hunts for UFOs. Can You Guess How Much It Costs?

    The Pentagon Hunts for UFOs. Can You Guess How Much It Costs?0

    Last December, The New York Times broke the story about a secret Pentagon program that searches for UFOs. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was a pet project of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and then-Senate majority leader. The program ran from 2007 to 2012 and cost $22 million. It was funded by “black money,”

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  • The PC Thought Police Zero in on Children’s Literature

    The PC Thought Police Zero in on Children’s Literature0

    • January 9, 2017

    It is of the nature of modern secular ideologies that they can’t ignore the least deviation from their lengthening list of what counts as culturally unacceptable. In America, new racial and gender ideologies are now affecting even children’s literature. In an article in a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, Meghan Cox Gurdon, who writes

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  • The PC Police Go After Hand-Clapping

    The PC Police Go After Hand-Clapping0

    The student union at the University of Manchester (UK) has banned clapping at its meetings, “on the basis that the loud noise may be a problem for those with sensory issues”. Whooping is also under a ban, to be substituted by “jazz hands” – waving hands in the air, the British sign language expression for applause, is

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  • The PC Killing of Kate Smith

    The PC Killing of Kate Smith0

    Back in 1983 when I was in the Navy, I was stationed in San Diego, and on an occasional Saturday night, when I was not on duty, I would head on down to the San Diego Sports Arena and watch the San Diego Sockers indoor soccer team play. At the beginning of the game, they

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  • The PC Culture is Relying on Communist Propaganda Tricks

    The PC Culture is Relying on Communist Propaganda Tricks0

    The PC culture that now dominates American schools is often over-the-top, silly, and uninteresting. And, according to author Theodore Dalrymple, that’s exactly the point.    In a 2005 interview he made the following comparison between communist propaganda and the new politically correct culture:   “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of

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