Political correctness is back, this time to uglify the California landscape, not only erasing a marker of  its unique Spanish heritage, but going all out to genericize and corporatize it. I'm writing this as a native Californian and I am disgusted. The PC Luddites in this one-party state have forced the University of Santa Cruz to remove a pair of old mission bells placed there in 1905 as markers for California's historic El Camino Real highway, which had been used by the Spanish conquistadores to explore and settle California. Seems someone got triggered and UCSC's leftist administrators jumped through their hoops like trained seals. Here's what Campus Reform found: A year after students began a petition to remove the traditional California “mission bell” from campus, the University of California Santa Cruz has capitulated to demands, announcing Friday that the bell will be removed. California mission bells mark the...(Read Full Post)