Politics

CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday questioned former Gov. Mark Sanford regarding views on same sex marriage in light of his own affair.

Law enforcement officials in Florida on Wednesday issued an Amber Alert for two young boys who they said had been abducted by "anti-government" parents.

The founder of a Colorado gun group is looking forward to November's "hunting season" because it will be "time to hunt Democrats."

Tuesday night on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow welcomed Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, who discussed Friday's rupture of a tar sands pipeline in the city of Mayflower, Arkansas. McDaniel said that he is making every effort to ensure that Exxon Mobil will be held fully accountable in his state for the spill, and that he is watching other state officials to learn the best ways to fight big corporations in these types of cases.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) on Monday admitted that he had eaten two baby pigs after using them as props to make a point about wasteful government spending.

The language of the American media has just changed for the better, and the hosts of "Fox & Friends" just can't seem to wrap their heads around it.

In an interview with arch-conservative radio host Mark Levin, rising African-American conservative avatar Dr. Ben Carson said on Monday that he believes that white liberals are "the most racist people there are," and that they are critical of him solely because they want to keep him from leaving "the plantation."

A libertarian-leaning Republican congressman from Michigan who has been billed as the "new Ron Paul" says that he would ban "abortion-causing" birth control and a woman's right to choose abortion more than three days after conception.

Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh said Monday that the tide of opinion on LGBT rights has turned so sharply that he's getting seriously freaked out "that Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with" these days.