Politics

Christian think tank leader Tony Perkins is blasting President Barack Obama over an effort to market the U.S. that includes images of LGBT people.

Wednesday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow examined the role of Donald Trump in the campaign of former Massachusetts governor and Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney. On a day that saw the release of Romney's embarrassing iPhone app and a badly-written gun policy memo which assured us that the candidate will support Americans' right to "hunt, shoot, and protect their families," the competition to be the most embarrassing member of the Romney organization was pretty fierce.

Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod said Wednesday that billionaires were trying to buy the United States government in the November elections.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) blasted the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) on Wednesday, comparing it to the "shock and awe" military strategy used at the beginning of the Iraq war.

Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra on Wednesday denied that his proposed federal so-called "birther" office had anything to do with President Barack Obama.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said Wednesday that the Founding Fathers of the United States would not have supported the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial decision in Citizens United.

Update (below): Fox News pulls video, claims it was 'unauthorized'

Earlier this month, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer fully recanted a controversial 2003 non-peer reviewed study that he published in the journal The Archives of Sexual Behavior, a study in which he posited that "highly motivated" LGBT people could reach their so-called "heterosexual potential" through counseling and prayer.

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, who is now a surrogate for Mitt Romney, on Wednesday blasted CNN host Soledad O'Brien for reporting on the presumptive Republican nominee's link to birthers like billionaire Donald Trump.

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) added to his growing list of eye-raising statements at his latest town hall event Tuesday afternoon in Boca Raton, Florida, including calling woman who disagree with him as his "groupies."

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday denied he was a "birther," but found it "odd" that President Barack Obama took so long to release his birth certificate.

On her show Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reported on the ongoing voter purge in Florida. The state is attempting to remove non-citizen voters from the rolls. State election officials have identified 2,600 non-citizens. But as Maddow noted, local officials have already discovered errors in the list.

New York Times reporter Scott Shane told PBS Newshour on Tuesday about the President's involvement in U.S. drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Pakistan.