In January, Ted Cruz suggested “spanking” Hillary Clinton for not calling Benghazi a terrorist attack. And at a campaign rally on Sunday, Cruz once again advocated a hands-on approach to discipline, this time in response to a young protester yelling, “You suck!”

A Florida dad taught parents in the state last week that it's fine to spank your kids, as long as you call the cops to oversee it.

Good news, everyone — gender equality is coming to one Texas school district.

Virginia restaurateur Henry Allen Fitzsimmons has hit upon a welfare plan the GOP can get behind: He sought out vulnerable young women who needed help and gave them money for education and childcare. All he asked in return was that they submit to being spanked, by him, on demand.

Did you know that in 20 hick states of our great union, it's still cool and A-OK for school officials to take your child into the dreaded "office" and administer stern thwacks to their bottom with some sort of wooden beating-stick, in order to teach them the difference between right and wrong (for example, violence is "wrong")? Yes, well. It is so. Might this be stupid?

Scientists now say that frequent spanking can lead to aggressive behavior in children, so if you want Americans to continue running the world, spank away. As the Bible says: Spare the rod, create a weak, effeminate communist. [Time]