Republicans are insulting American voters in their efforts to weaken President Barack Obama by blocking his proposals, argues David Firestone in the New York Times.

White female rapper Kitty Pryde argues in a provocative post at Noisey that fellow rapper Danny Brown was sexually assaulted when a fan rushed the stage and began performing oral sex on him -- so why is everyone blaming the victim?  

Marco McMillian, the openly gay Clarkdale, Miss., mayoral candidate, was also severely beaten about the head.

The conservative Supreme Court justice said that he always knew the nation's first black president would be someone "approved by the elites and the media."