Without all that white guilt to contend with, the GOP will have the inside track in 2016. Or something like that.

As Pope Francis continues his literally and figuratively dress-down papacy, Cardinals start falling in line with less gold, velvet and regal fur.

CNN reporter presses Texas Gov candidate on whether it’s right for him to campaign with Ted Nugent after he calls President Obama a “subhuman mongrel” and other racist comments. Watch.

One moment you’re a NOLA cop doing your normal duty brutalizing a suspect with the butt of your gun. The next thing you know the gun goes off.

To be fair to the cop in question, the guy he was trying to restrain seemed pretty out of control. But still, pistol whipping.

Chris Christie is holding his first town hall since the BridgeGate scandal broke. Watch it live here.

An ex-staffer for Gov. Chris Christie who was subpoenaed in the BridgeGate scandal has now gotten new job at the Port Authority, which oversees the George Washington Bridge.

Interesting contrast between this story about how cardinals are scaling back their sartorial splendor in deference to Pope Francis’ more ascetic approach and this one about a New Jersey archdiocese building out a fancy retirement home for its archbishop.

Chris Christie’s top appointee to the Port Authority apologizes for the lane closures that set off the BridgeGate scandal.

Arizona takes one step closer to legalizing anti-gay discrimination as “freedom of religion.”

Nowhere near McDonnell territory yet. Not even Christie. But it’s looking like Scott Walker could end up the third GOP Governor presidential candidate golden boy who goes down the tubes because of his own pre-presidential scandal.