Last night's primaries in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia garnered more attention for who lost rather than who won. In Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, the former Congressman and perennial Presidential candidate lost the nomination for governor this fall. Although his old ...read more

Sometimes it helps to take a break from Trump Trump Trump all the time and remind ourselves just how rancid conservative ideology truly is: North Carolina is the one state where the law explicitly says you cannot revoke consent once it's given. A bill that would remove this ...read more

If you haven't already heard about the horrifying power grab by the North Carolina Republican Party, don't worry, this is just the beginning. Republicans have been emboldened by Donald Trump's illegitimate win and are quickly shedding any pretense of upholding democracy on any ...read more

On Saturday evening vandals threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the Hillsborough, North Carolina GOP, destroying the office. On a building adjacent to the Republican office the words "Nazi Republicans leave town or else” and a swastika were spray-painted on a wall. On ...read more

Slow-ish clap for Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, who made a point of ostentatiously highlighting Politifact's check on whether there really is a problem involving trans-friendly restroom policies and sex crimes, and for concluding that he agrees this is a "solution in search ...read more

There's something especially ridiculous about the following contradiction. Many religious conservatives strongly believe in the existence of God, Heaven, Hell, the Devil and the literal interpretation of the Bible, even though zero evidence exists proving any of it really ...read more

Obama is holding on to his commanding lead in Ohio – he’s up by 4 points. Richard Adams at the Guardian points out, for Romney to win, he has to take Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa and Colorado. Romney's increasingly narrow path to the Presidency To get the ...read more

From YahooNews: The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will give up its criminal case against former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. In May, a deadlocked North Carolina federal jury found Edwards not guilty of one charge of accepting illegal campaign ...read more

Former Senator John Edwards' affair and child out of wedlock derailed a political rise that put him on the Democrats' 2004 White House ticket, but the one-time trial lawyer held his head high on Thursday after a North Carolina jury delivered his most personal victory yet. ...read more

By Bob Cesca: I don't often make predictions in politics. It's an exercise usually reserved for pundits who have an insecure obsession with being omniscient.-- the first head on the block to accurately guess something that's almost unpredictable. But on the issue of same-sex ...read more

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his campaign next week and endorse Mitt Romney, his spokesman has said. Mr Gingrich now says he expects Mr Romney, who won five primaries on Tuesday, to be the Republican nominee. The campaigns are said to ...read more