Brian Ross

Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO, a $100B+ invisible suit for its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week. As one of the first five digital publishers on the Internet, I can say that you might as well put your money in the toilet and flush, unless Facebook reinvents itself a...

The Oscars are known for many odd customs and bits of superstition, but American Blacks best know the Color Purple Curse. Viola Davis was upset by the veteran Meryl Streep at the Oscars, even though Davis had won the Screen Actors Guild award days earlier.

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Mitt Romney got the headline from Florida that he was seeking out of the New York Times: "Romney Wins Big Over Gingrich." That's one way of looking at it.  A very shallow, reflection from the wading pond sort of view.  Diving the depths of the numbers, though reveals a...

The public face of the Romney campaign is projecting power and trying to coalesce the GOP faithful around him. Privately, both the candidate and the GOP have to be worried. Neither primary win has been convincing, and their ballyhooed anti-Obama referendum evaporated.

The media buzz was that Romney did the...

The rapid rise in fortunes for the Rick Santorum campaign was not a sudden surge of populism. The real story of Tuesday's Iowa Caucuses is that the hand of the uber-rich libertarian and ultra-Christian Right can tilt elections, and tilt them quickly by way of the new Super PAC slush...

Last week, departing Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates blasted the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance members for their shorting of military spending in the Libyan campaign. He chastised NATO leaders and their governments for a general lack of collective will in Afghanistan as well.  Do we need...

When Newt Gingrich is too moderate for the Republican Party, the Tea Party has turned the political landscape into quicksand for GOP presidential aspirants.

Gingrich, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, was asked whether Republicans should buck polls that show their Medicare voucher system is D.O.A. His

Yes, I speak jazz heresy: Maybe it is time that the promoters of the annual April/May music festival in New Orleans fess up. Jazz may get top billing on the signage and the posters at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but it rides the back of the bus...

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Roll. Home to most American cultural traditions of music, the Crescent City is a testament to the American Dream. People of no means made it to the big...

Former Republican Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson announced his intention to run on the Republican ticket for President in 2012 to a crowd estimated at 18 people. Here's why Barack Obama should be good and scared of this dark-horse candidate.

I was in the sports news business working out...

The moniker "No Drama Obama" has long-since evaporated from the political dialogue, but that maturity and statesmanship that brought an end to a generation of political drama queens, from Reagan to Clinton to W., reared its ugly head again this week as the President's executive decision to support the UN...

GOPers, gather 'round. For your consideration, a travesty of bureaucracy: Eighty-eight different agencies make a slew of complex and often conflicting rules that mire thousands of small and mid-sized American businesses in snarls of paperwork that run up man-hours, reduce their company output, profit and hamstring their ability to do...

What's the difference between the mob and Major League Baseball (MLB)? You know, that's a really good question.

Writers were gleefully typing away last week, with the New York Post reporting the $25 million bailout by MLB of the New York Mets and owner Fred Wilpon. Wilpon...

Is your home in foreclosure? I have the perfect solution if you're a government worker: Sleep in your office! If members of Congress can put a free roof over their head at the taxpayers' expense, why shouldn't you?

People who make $174,000 a year, in addition to whatever else that...

Thank you, Judge Vinson, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, for freeing us from the burden of mandatory health, auto, and flood insurance. Thank you, too, for ending the tyranny of toll roads, parking meters and municipal golf course fees!

Earlier this week, federal judge C. Roger Vinson of the...

Political horror film: Sarah Palin is put into a time machine and unleashed on John F. Kennedy in the 1960s. "How's that 'civility's not a signy of weakness' workin' out for ya', Mr. President?" In the week that we celebrate the 50th anniversary of JFK's "Ask Not" speech, the

Anyone who makes the claim that America is not a socialist country is a liar or delusional. The United States practices Preferential Socialism, a Taoist teeter-totter of raw capitalism and a moth-eaten social safety net that favors the haves and keeps the have-nots barely limping along. As Congress drags out...

John Boehner stayed in D.C. to play politics at a GOP dinner rather than hitch a ride on Air Force One to be at the memorial of the victims of Jared Lee Loughner. It was a horrible miscalculation that just scuttled Johnny Bonehead's pirate statesmanship, which is taking on water.

Perhaps Christian McBride should have an affair with J.Lo, or punch Ashton Kutcher in the kisser, or sneak Lindsay Lohan out of rehab. They might be the only avenues that our infamous fame fed media, even here at HuffPo, might consider the top jazz bassist in the world today as...

OPINION - Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and Fox TV is to the media business what Ray Kroc, McDonalds founder, was to the restaurant biz: A purveyor of mental junk food. We in the news business fail, much as the restaurant business did for years, because we chase quick...