Local Democrat in Kentucky claims two members of Progress Kentucky bragged to him that they recorded the Mitch McConnell campaign strategy session, the NPR station in Louisville is reporting.

Yesterday morning Sen. Rand Paul went over to Howard University. And it didn’t go terribly well. One might say that’s only to be expected in a case like this – perhaps even the whole point – since the aim is to break the ice between communities either antagonistic to each other or thoroughly out of communication. But it’s more an example of what happens when a staunch conservative steps out of the GOP’s tightly-drawn racial nonsense bubble and hits an audience not dying to be convinced that the GOP’s problems with non-whites are the results of boffo misunderstandings about a Republican party that is actually the best thing that ever happened to black people. Read More

North Carolina lawmaker Michele Presnell is against allowing Islamic prayers to be conducted before a legislative meeting because she “doesn’t condone terrorism.”