Newsfront

March, 2011

Jesus Christ, SocialistBEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE—A COUple pulledtheir 16-year-old son out of school after, they said, a teacher violated his civil rights by assigning a book that refers to Jesus as a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist." Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Bar­bara Ehrenreich describes her attempt to live on the minimum wage. Ehrenreich admitted "wine-guzzling is a little unfair" but said "vagrant" is apt because Jesus was &...