Politics

Fox & Friends brought on resident psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow on Tuesday to explain that President Barack Obama supported food stamps and was accusing the Republican Party of hostage taking in the government shutdown fight because his father "abandoned" him as a child and his grandmother "didn't trust men of color."

CNN host Anderson Cooper decided on Tuesday that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos must be "high" after the Republican strategist tried to explain Sen. Ted Cruz' (R-TX) push to shut down the government by saying "he's having bunny sex."

A somewhat flustered-looking Rep. Peter King (R-NY) decried his party's decision to trust Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in an interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, reiterating his belief that backing Cruz's play to attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act was a mistake that the Senate will apparently have to repair.

Democratic strategist Jimmy Williams did not mince words in an interview with MSNBC host Al Sharpton regarding the man photographed at a Tea Party protest on Sunday waving the Confederate flag side-by-side with the Marine Corps flag, calling it one of the most offensive things he has ever seen.

Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) doubled down on his opposition to raising the federal debt limit in an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday, arguing that it would benefit the country in the long run.

The family of a Florida man is searching for answers after he was shot by a passing motorist while running home naked because his clothes had been stolen while at the beach.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Tuesday amped his recent impeachment rhetoric by claiming that President Barack Obama was "getting close to a high crime and misdemeanor."

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) accused MSNBC host Thomas Roberts of making "inappropriate" comments on Tuesday after he asked if she hated President Barack Obama's health care reform law "more than you love your country."

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) on Tuesday attempted to explain to CNN host Ashley Banfield that it was impossible to work with House Republicans in good faith as long as they wanted to "bring down our government" the "same way they fought as Confederates."

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, a theoretical physicist and science broadcaster, said Monday at The Cambridge Union Society that Christianity had commandeered humanistic values.

A county official in western North Carolina accepted a same sex marriage application on Tuesday, setting up a showdown between the county and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D), who intends to defend the state's constitutional ban on marriage equality.