For He's a Jolly Great Leader
Stuart Goldenberg
Stuart Goldenberg
A children's book listed under the title Great Leaders on an Indian publisher's website included write-ups on Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Gandhi–and Adolf Hitler. The book was pulled after people complained.
Oops
Florida resident Rebecca Shaw spent five months in jail after a faulty field test determined that the pills found in her car by a deputy were oxycodone. She was released only after her husband raised the $5,000 bail. Seven months later, a crime lab concluded that the pills were actually vitamins, as she had said all along.
The Penal Solution
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sees the slight decline in the United States’ world-leading prison population numbers as “a worrisome trend,” reports Time magazine. As he puts it, “This whole mentality that there’s another solution other than incarceration, all I will say to you is, people today don’t know that every one of these things has been tried over the last forty years.”
No Cookies for You!
Mat Staver, the founder of Liberty Counsel, a conservative legal group, has called for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies, calling the scouts’ parent organization “a political advocacy group that promotes abortion and sexual promiscuity to innocent girls.” His proof: Some Girl Scouts attended a 2010 United Nations conference on women, and a photo from last year’s Women’s March appeared on the scouts’ Facebook page.
Schools of Rocks
A school district in Pennsylvania has placed five-gallon buckets of hand-sized river stones in every classroom so if an active shooter should appear, “they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned,” explained District Superintendent David Helsel.
Tax Relief Where It’sNot Needed
The online retail giant Amazon paid zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2017, despite posting profits of $5.6 billion. The company is expected to receive an additional $789 million in tax relief under the new GOP tax bill. Its founder and chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos, is the richest person ever.
Its Capital Is Allah?
Stuart Goldenberg
In his closing argument to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case regarding the Trump Administration’s travel ban, Solicitor General Noel Francisco asserted that the President has no animus toward Muslims and even “praised Islam as one of the great countries of the world.”
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