Politics

In an interview with Bill Moyers, journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized Americans' "warped perspective" on the U.S. government's use of unmanned attack ddrones, saying there's not much differenciating an American military drone strike from the Boston Marathon bombings.

Re. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) took to the House floor today in support of the legislation to eliminate furloughs of air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration -- which has led to flight delays -- that were imposed as part of a long-ago deal with the White House to automatically cut the federal budget unless Democrats and Republicans agreed on an overall reformed budget (colloquially known as "sequestration"). The legislation, which carves out a second exception of what observers expect will eventually be several exemptions to the budget-slashing deal affecting every agency, eventually passed the House and the President is expected to sign it over the objection of some Democrats who have argued that carving out exemptions for service losses that primarily affect America's wealthy and upper middle class leaves programs for America's poor facing an even tougher road.

An atheist woman with an incurable brain disease took her own life on Thursday in spite of Christians who insisted that she was a "sinner" and would "go to hell" if she went through with the assisted suicide.

Former Republican Missouri Senate nominee Todd Akin said on Thursday that he wished he could take back his comments about women not being able to get pregnant from "legitimate rape" because he's "relived them too many times."

On Thursday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow took the occasion of the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library to share her thoughts on the whitewashing of our 43rd president's legacy. She compared his eight years in office to the Carnival "Poop Cruise," the cruise ship that went dead in the water in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, stranding passengers for days with no toilets, no fresh water and a rapidly rotting food supply.

CNN media critic Howard Kurtz on Thursday criticized Fox News for sending Dana Perino to interview former President George W. Bush during the opening of his presidential library.

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday misquoted the founder of Planned Parenthood to make a false connection between the abortion provider, Adolf Hitler and African-American "genocide."

Former President George W. Bush openly wept while talking about some of the biggest disasters of his tenure at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday.

Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's National Security Subcommittee, slammed Republicans on Thursday for conducting a hearing that he said was driven by Internet conspiracy theories suggesting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was buying a billion rounds of ammunition to use against the American people.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday said that he was "open" to considering the idea of halting all student visas from Muslim countries as a reaction to this month's Boston Marathon bombings.

Wednesday night on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow chided the right for giving credence to the crackpot conspiracy theories of Alex Jones and bringing the most extreme fringe thinking to the front and center of the Republican Party.

Former President George W. Bush on Thursday said that he was not "weighing in" on the current debate over same sex marriage, even though he supported a constitutional ban on marriage equality and may have won a second term because anti-LGBT ballot measures brought evangelical conservatives out to vote in 2004.