Politics

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck argued on Wednesday that "In God We Trust" was an appropriate motto for public schools because it was printed on U.S. currency.

Hours after being called out by a Ferguson activist, CNN's Wolf Blitzer was the butt of the joke on the Daily Show on Tuesday night, as Jon Stewart hammered him for acting shocked about the unrest in Baltimore.

A 21-year-old North Dakota man said this week that he revealed explicit messages sent to him by a Republican lawmaker on the gay dating app Grindr because the legislator had voted against expanding LGBT rights.

A conservative activist who became infamous for claiming that Monster Energy drinks were the work of Satan warned C-SPAN host John McArdle this week that God would stop protecting America if same-sex marriage was legalized.

Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw gave Brian Kilmeade a lesson in income inequality on Tuesday after the Fox News host asserted that inner city children enjoyed the same opportunities as his kids.

A high school senior who was rejected by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's (R) reformed for-profit state Medicaid system said that he was just days away from dying when he fled the state and found treatment at a hospital in Tennessee.

Texas Republicans scrambled last week to repair intraparty divisions after advisers to Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) lashed out at a pre-K initiative as "godless," even though it had been backed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the hosts of Fox & Friends suggested on Monday that they had a "right to know" if the first black woman to be appointed Assistant Chief of Police in Miami was a Muslim who hated America because she stood at attention during the Pledge of Allegiance instead of placing her hand over her heart.

Historian Dr. Gerald Horne asserted recently that the police tactics that led to the deaths of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and other black men around the country are the legacy of "slave patrols" that were used to impose economic, political and social order.

As the nation prepares for the Supreme Court to possibly decide whether same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, it was clear on Sunday that even anti-gay crusader Tony Perkins was having difficulty being taken seriously by the mainstream media.

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday pointed out to conservative author Peter Schweizer that his new book failed to connect the dots between speaking fees earned by former President Bill Clinton and policies supported by Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday warned that protests in Baltimore over police involvement in the death of Freddie Gray were a "threat to civilization itself."

ABC News host Diane Sawyer seemed more surprised that former Olympic champion Bruce Jenner identified himself as a Republican than announcing he was a trans woman on Friday, the Huffington Post reported.