Politics

As President Barack Obama fights himself on a three-and-a-half-year long "race up shit's creek," Jon Stewart pointed out, his best hope would be the fact that Beltway media, cursed by "the attention span of a concussed goldfish," was already laying out predictions for the 2016 elections, despite the fact that there's still 1000 days until the first primary vote is cast.

Republicans provided the erroneous quotes linked to White House emails regarding how to address the September 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, CBS News reported on Thursday.

Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) told NowThisNews on Wednesday that he loves "so-called gangsta rap," and especially hip-hop group Public Enemy, because he feels the song "Fight the Power" somehow mirrors his own struggles in Washington, D.C. and the scandals of the Obama administration.

A Catholic high school in New Mexico says that a transgender student must wear a female gown or not participate in graduation ceremonies.

A group of U.S. lawmakers from both parties announced Thursday that they are proposing legislation to hand over prosecution of sexual assaults on and by U.S. military personnel to civilian authorities. According to Bloomberg News, the officials are taking the action as evidence mounts suggesting that the military is either incapable of or uninterested in policing its own ranks with regards to sexual assaults on women.

A Republican congressman from North Dakota suggested to the graduating class at University of Mary earlier this month that the Boston Marathon bombings, the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks and multiple school shootings were all connected to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973.

Conservative performance artist Glenn Beck on Wednesday compared President Barack Obama to Chicago gangster Al Capone by reenacting a scene from the movie "The Untouchables" and using a baseball bat to beat a tea party activist in the head until he was laying dead in a pool of fake blood.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Thursday declared that efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law were "now revived" after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted that it had inappropriately targeted conservative groups to determine if they had abused their tax-exempt status.

A panel discussion on Wednesday night's episode of the Republican talk show "Hannity" ended with everyone agreeing that President Barack Obama must have used the Internal Revenue Service to steal the 2012 election, keeping tea partiers so busy with filling out documents to obtain tax exempt status that they were unable to register enough new voters to put Mitt Romney over the top.

On Wednesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow tore into TV network ABC for its recent reporting on the Benghazi attack and President Barack Obama's administration's response to the tragedy.

The hosts of Fox & Friends complained on Thursday that President Barack Obama had taken actions in response to so-called scandals involving terrorist attacks in Benghazi and the Internal Revenue Service targeting tea party groups in an effort to "confuse the American people" -- or at the very least, Fox News morning show hosts.

The Florida State Attorney's Office said Wednesday that 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot would not face criminal charges over her science experiment, which caused a small explosion Bartow High School in Polk County last month.

Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president for corporate and business development, on Wednesday slammed legislation in North Carolina that would prevent the sale of his company's all-electric cars.