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‘Congratulations to John McCain’s wife and children on their upcoming tax-free inheritance.’
HuffPost reporter Ashley Feinberg in a much-criticized and since-deleted tweet on Sen. John McCain’s announcement of support for the Senate tax reform bill. McCain has brain cancer.
‘I forgive Michael Slager. I forgive you.’
Judy Scott, mother of Walter Scott, an unarmed black motorist who was shot and killed in 2015 by North Charleston, S.C., police officer Michael Slager, after Slager pleaded guilty to the shooting and was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Dec. 7. She said her prayer was that Slager would repent and accept Christ.
‘They call him a fake lawyer but not a fake woman.’
Kaeley Triller on a news article about a man who identifies as a woman being arrested for identifying as a lawyer. Triller is co-founder of Hands Across the Aisle, an ideologically diverse coalition of women pushing back against the transgender political and cultural agenda.
‘We are proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace.’
Tim Cook, Apple CEO, at China’s World Internet Conference, where Chinese officials promote online censorship.
‘If you burn coal, see you in the detention center.’
A sign in northern China, where the government aims to cut down on pollution by banning the burning of coal, which means millions in rural Hebei will be freezing this winter. The government is trying to replace coal-powered heating with natural gas but has hit setbacks in laying pipes and a shortage of natural gas.
‘I’m tired of elections that seem like hypotheticals from a moral philosophy textbook.’
Christopher Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a Dec. 6 tweet.
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