The right's latest target: Girl Scout cookiesA tenuous tie to Planned Parenthood is enough to make some conservatives declare war on Thin Mints and TagalongsBy Mary Elizabeth Williams | Monday, Jan 23, 2012 5:35 PM UTC
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(Credit: Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar / CC BY 3.0) For many of us, this is the most wonderful time of the year. The holidays are over, but there's still plenty of time to get the taxes done. Snow remains a pleasant novelty. Best of all – the Girl Scouts are selling cookies. But there are always dark forces conspiring to stand between slavering devotees and their Do-Si-Dos. In years past, they took aim at the cookies for trans fats, so the Girl Scouts eliminated them. This year, the critics are after something bigger: the Girl Scouts' politics.
