Nikki Haley Defends Cringeworthy Civil War Comments by Declaring, “I Had Black Friends Growing Up”

January brings with it a time for resolutions, and GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley might want to put this one at the top of her list: come up with much better answers to questions about the Civil War. Haley came under fire last month when she said the US Civil War was over “the role of government and what the rights of the people are,” failing to mention the word slavery. She later claimed the strange omission should not be read into, stating that “of course the Civil War was...