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I bet you didn’t know this: Each year, the Pentagon’s leaders review their budgets carefully, looking to save every taxpayer dollar by pushing away every greedy defense contractor who is seeking to pile up obscene profits; every Pentagon rule prohibits “revolving door” scams so that former Pentagon officials are barred from getting lucrative jobs with defense contractors and lining their pockets by using their insider connections. The entire Pentagon runs on a shoestring, not to mention every Pentagon office is always valuing peace over conflict.

I’m here all week, ladies and germs, and for my next comedic routine let me tell you about Ted Cruz’s embrace of truth, honesty and Democratic Socialism.

It is hard to overstate how deep a scam the Pentagon truly is. I tread on this topic today—one whose theme may seem familiar to many readers—for two reasons. First, Bernie Sanders, in his role as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, held an extensive hearing yesterday called “Wast…