Politics

An Indiana man convicted of setting fire to a mosque in Ohio told a judge on Wednesday that he committed the crimes because Fox News and conservative talk radio had convinced him that "most Muslims are terrorists."

In a video published to YouTube on Thursday, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D) said he plans to serve out his second term as mayor, after which he will "explore the possibility of running" for the U.S. Senate in 2014.

Defeated tea party-favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) suggested on Thursday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was only pretending to be sick and have a concussion to avoid testifying about the September attacks in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino says that race relations in America have gotten a lot better, but that that the so-called War on Drugs has "decimated the black male population" and it is continuing for "all the same reasons they had for keeping slavery going."

The host of Fox & Friends on Thursday decided to find out once and for all if the "War on Christmas" was real by asking a mythical figure who listens to the fantasies of children.

Wednesday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow offered a eulogy of sorts for conservative icon Judge Robert Bork, whose extreme right-wing views made him too conservative for a U.S. Supreme Court that has made bench room for men like Justice Antonin Scalia. Bork passed away on Wednesday at the age of 85.

During an appearance on Current TV, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said Wednesday that Democrats would probably not be able to pass an assault weapons ban in the House of Representatives.

The New Jersey Attorney General's office said on Tuesday that a record 1,137 firearms had been turned in as part of cash-for-guns program in just two days after last week's shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.

Following last week's slaughter of 20 children in Connecticut, President Barack Obama on Wednesday held his first-ever press conference about gun control, but the press corps insisted on asking at least the first six questions about the so-called fiscal cliff.

Quentin Tarantino was the topic of discussion on Tuesday's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News, with the host and a guest putting the heat on the filmmaker's body of work for possibly causing real-life violence.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) doggedly avoided CNN host Soledad O'Brien's requests on Wednesday to take a definable position on gun laws after last week's mass shooting in Connecticut.

The lawmaker who South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has chosen to replace tea party-backed Sen. Jim DeMint (R) says legislators should focus on mental health instead of gun laws following the massacre of 20 elementary school children in Connecticut last week.

CNN host Piers Morgan, who has repeatedly called for stricter gun regulation in the wake of last week's school shooting in Connecticut, got into a heated debate with the head of the Gun Owners of America (GOA), Larry Pratt, during his show Tuesday night, with the interview becoming confrontational after Morgan accused Pratt of lying about shooting rates in Europe.