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  • The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?

    The Actual ‘Sword in the Stone’?0

    Even if you haven’t actually read a version of the legend of King Arthur, you’ve probably seen one of the movies or TV miniseries about it. I well remember the least serious: the 1963 animated Disney classic The Sword in the Stone, which many children from then on have also seen. We just don’t have

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  • The ACLU Loses Its Way

    The ACLU Loses Its Way0

    The American Civil Liberties Union used to be a great institution. Founded in January 1920, the ACLU sought to become, in its own words, “the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.” Over the decades, the organization fought for civil liberties even when no one else would. The ACLU fought against

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  • The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights

    The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights0

    A few years ago, I put together an amusing collection of stories comparing truly bizarre examples of political correctness and bureaucratic idiocy in the United States and United Kingdom. I was especially impressed (in a you-must-be-joking fashion) that a British job placement office got in trouble for discrimination because they sought “reliable” and “hard-working” applicants.

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  • The Absence of Honor and Our Failed Governing Elites

    The Absence of Honor and Our Failed Governing Elites3

    In “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars,” Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) writes of a soldier who laments leaving the “chaste breast and quiet mind” of his mistress to embrace “a sword, a horse, a shield.” But he concludes the poem with this thought: “Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt adore; I could

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  • The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus

    The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus0

    This country is not governed by a “Republican Party” and a “Democratic Party.” It is governed by an establishment “uniparty” that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill.    While Americans are distracted with the holidays, Beltway crapweasels stuff their legislative

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  • The ABCs of Afghanistan

    The ABCs of Afghanistan0

    A is for Afghanistan. A faraway, hardcore Muslim country that remains utterly mysterious to our political, intelligence, and military elites even after two decades of intervention. Between October 2001 and August 2021 America squandered more than $2 trillion and more than 2,000 lives for no clear objective or tangible benefit. B is for the Washington Beltway. The

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