Politics

Anthony Weiner isn't the only politician in New York who is facing a scandal for sending inappropriate text messages.

The Major League Baseball team in St. Louis, Missouri put every American "in grave danger" of God's wrath when the team's manager asked park custodians to stop leaving religious symbols on the pitcher's mound, according to an attorney for a religious fundamentalist group.

A Colorado sheriff says that gun rights activists who mocked background check laws that forced a gun buyback program to be canceled are missing the "bigger good" that the law is doing.

A Tennessee courthouse this week unveiled the first of four "In God We Trust" signs, and one local pastor isn't worried about what atheists think because Christians "have a right to the democratic process and majority rule."

On Wednesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed the wave of scandals currently engulfing the careers of former congressman and New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner (D), San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R). All three men, she said, are degrading the concept of public service in this country and making a mockery of the public trust.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Wednesday mocked an effort by Democrats to protect the rights of African-Americans by saying their amendment was actually meant for "the snail darter, various lizards, the lesser prairie chicken, the greater sage grouse and so many other insects."

A gun control group is petitioning the National Rifle Association (NRA) to remove rocker Ted Nugent from its board of directors after he wrote an uttered a string of racially inflammatory comments about the killing of Trayvon Martin.

A Democratic congressman on Wednesday offered an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would end the legal cornerstone of the "war on terror."

Another woman has come forward with allegations that San Diego, California's Mayor Bob Filner (D) sexually harassed her. According to Talking Points Memo, political strategist Laura Fink told KPBS that the mayor touched her "posterior" in front of a group of guests at a fundraising event in 2005.

Speaking to right-wing talk show host and occasional Fox News contributor Andrea Tantaros on Tuesday, National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent declared that musicians like Stevie Wonder, who plan to boycott the state of Florida in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal, are brain-damaged from a lifetime of drug abuse and must not know what they are doing.

Looking a bit like a homeless re-imagining of horror movie icon Freddy Krueger, right-wing conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck appeared on his Blaze TV Internet show Monday sporting a beard, rolling condoms onto his fingers and taping a birth control pill to his nose in an apparent effort to mock MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry.

North Carolina's Republican-heavy General Assembly will consider a bill on Wednesday that would impose multiple restrictions on the voting process, including both state-mandated photo identifications and the curtailing of both early voting and same-day voter registration.