On Saturday, Republican presidential hopeful won the Conservative Political Action Conference's presidential straw poll for the third consecutive year, the Guardian reports. Only three winners of 20 previous CPAC straw polls went on to win the party's nomination for president.

Not content to let Chris Christie dominate the national hypocrite conversation Monday, Rand Paul—a certified doctor who vaccinated his own children—said he believes there's a link between vaccines and "profound mental disorders."

On the second day of his scathing coverage of a grand jury's decision not to indict the cop who choked Eric Garner to death, Jon Stewart remained mostly serious, but some of the things people are saying about the case were too dumb and wrong not to mock. And by "people," I mean Rand Paul.

In the latest installment of Last Week Tonight's "How Is This Still a Thing?" John Oliver investigates the ongoing popularity of pernicious pseudo-philosopher Ayn Rand, whose works have experienced a resurgence among non-high-schoolers—especially CEOs and members of Congress—during the past decade.

In Washington, Mitch McConnell is a power broker. In Kentucky, where the senator faces a tough re-election slog, he's just the big-government sonofabitch that made life tougher for hardscrabble locals trying to make a living by breeding animals to rip each other to death for sport.

After getting fired by Sen Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for being a Lincoln-hating neo-Confederate who called himself the "Southern Avenger," Jack Hunter says it was all a performance, and he now regrets that conservatives do and say racist things: "Why do we ever have to go there?"

Rand Paul really, really doesn't want you to think he's a plagiarist. (Well, not anymore, anyway.) After being accused of lifting content from uncredited sources on multiple occasions, the Kentucky senator included no fewer than 33 footnotes in the speech he gave at the Citadel today.

Following Monday's report in BuzzFeed that Rand Paul, the Jonah Lehrer of senators, plagiarized part of his September 20 article in The Washington Times, the conservative paper has ended the Kentucky Senator's weekly column, which he's written since the summer.

It's been a rough few days for Kentucky senator and newly revealed plagiarist Rand Paul: Last week, MSNBC and Politico reported that some of Paul's speeches lifted lines and paragraphs verbatim from Associated Press reports and the Wikipedia pages for Gattaca and Stand and Deliver. And on Saturday, BuzzFeed's Andrew…

In a recent speech, Senator Rand Paul alleged that abortion rights in Virginia will lead to eugenics. But the exaggeration and hysteria of his claim weren't the speech's biggest problems: turns out, it was lifted straight from Wikipedia.

On Wednesday, local news station WPSD 6 caught Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul discussing the GOP's government shutdown strategy on a hot mic.

Who's the sexy Air Force dude on the beach cruiser? Oh and who's that cute little blond boy? This photograph of "the America we lost" shows Doctor Ron Paul and his son, board-uncertified ophthalmologist Rand Paul. If you're wondering how these two become so nutty in the 21st Century, all the clues are in this…

While being interviewed on CNN on Sunday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said he believes that the Internal Revenue Service had a written policy that was specifically "targeting people who were opposed to the president."

In a speech at the White House this evening, President Obama minced no words when it came to criticizing those he deems responsible for the Senate's failure to pass expanded gun-sale background checks today. Flanked by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and family members of Newtown shooting victims, among…

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, whose unsuccessful filibuster of John Brennan was the main topic of Ted Cruz's CPAC keynote last night, has won the CPAC straw poll, the first almost real gauge of 2016 Republican presidential nominees.