Physician Ben Carson, a Republican who will probably run for
President, compared America’s founding fathers with ISIS because they were
willing to die for their beliefs and didn’t compromise “for the sake of
political correctness.”
A Tennessee mother has complained that the taillights of a
school bus form a “Pagan” pentagram and is demanding they be changed.
A new Alabama abortion law allows judges to appoint attorneys to represent fetuses
in abortion cases involving girls aged 17 and younger who don't have consent
for the procedure from their parents. The ACLU points out that Alabama does not
have a statewide public defender program. Fetuses can get an attorney, but poor
adults accused of crimes cannot.
According
to a study by The Tax Foundation, the seven states that take in the most
federal tax dollars all had one thing in common. They all voted Republican in
the presidential 2012 election.
Four
U.S. Republican Senators introduced a bill on Tuesday seeking to cut off any
funding which could allow detainees – including men long cleared for release by
federal agents – to leave Guantánamo. One of the four is John McCain, who
campaigned for president in 2008 saying that the detention center at Guantánamo
needed to be closed.
As part of a holiday charity campaign, the Walmart Foundation
last month donated $1.5 million to food pantries across the country. An
estimated 825,000 workers at Walmart, the largest private employer in the
United States, earn less than $25,000 annually, placing many who have families
below the poverty line and in need of food assistance programs.
A bipartisan trio of lawmakers in Mississippi has introduced a
bill calling for the Bible to be named the “state book.”
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