Rather than the new "not-Romney," Santorum might more usefully be described as the new Gingrich. In the Congress, both candidates were known for their divisive partisan nature. Neither candidate has any real experience or success as an executive. Both candidates come across as amateur pop historians. Both candidates have a...

Its over. Fairly strong performance by Romney. Huntsman sounded like a candidate, and maybe he will begin to attract more attention. Gingrich came across as more shallow and more arrogant than I expected. Perry with a weak outing now drifting in to the B list of candidates, which includes Bachmann,...

Steve Jobs had a great sense of what hardware and software could do. My mother, in her 90s, can use her Apple laptop and tablet to check her Facebook page. I know countless people who were both terrible or great at the geekier side of computing that fell in love...

Like many others, I have spent the past several days combing through countless US Department of State cables. I am primarily looking at the cables that describe our government's efforts to drive up the price of medicine in developing countries. This is an act of state-sponsored violence that is rarely...

The announcement this morning that Google wants to spend $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobile -- for its patent portfolio, is just the latest evidence the patent system is not working. The issue that Google is struggling with is a common one. Some complex products, like mobile phones,...

Beginning Wednesday, June 15, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) the specialized UN agency for intellectual property, begins nine days of negotiations on possible copyright treaties. The first three days will be spent on a proposed treaty on exceptions to copyright for persons who are blind or have other...

It must by now be obvious that people in politics have sex, outside of the conventional and sometimes puritanical values presented to the voters. Any list of political love affairs, casual affairs, paid sex, risky or kinky sex, flirtations, same gender sex and multiple marriages would be long, and relatively...

On April 19, 2011, Dr Kumariah Balasubramaniam died at his home in Sri Lanka. He was 84-years-old. Known to consumer rights community simply as Dr. Bala, or Bala, he was a towering figure in the public health community, and he will be missed by his family, friends and professional colleagues....

When President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, he said "the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden," but very little else regarding the details of that death. Conflicting news reports have created some confusion over the circumstances of the...

A lot of people are speculating about Keith Olbermann's future, now that the NBC/Comcast merger and his departure from MSNBC have been announced. Depending upon how you look at things, Olbermann is (a) an enormous talent (b) pompous (c) brilliant (d) a powerful voice for social...

Like many readers of Huffpost, I was deeply moved by the election of Barack Obama in 2008, but disappointed and surprised by some of what followed during his first two years in office. With little experience and no real record of achievement or identification with a particular case, Obama...

The roll call on the Don't ask, Don't tell repeal is here.

It seems to me that these senators should not have voted against DADT repeal:

• Bennett (R-UT). He's already been defeated, and probably will work as a lobbyist in DC. He's also smarter than his vote....

Democrats want to declare Wikileaks a terrorist organization, seize its domain name, assets, cut off all possibilities of making donations or hosting web pages, fire or not hire anyone who reads the leaked cables, and hunt down Julian Assange and lock him up in jail for the rest of his...

Once you get beyond the possible damage of low-level cables being shared so that the general public has a better idea of what their own governments are up to, there is the massive damage being done to the global freedom to circulate truths and criticize governments. These are a few...

The U.S. efforts to transform Afghanistan through military occupation occupation face well known shortcoming -- abuses of power by the occupying forces and the puppet governments, resentment and longstanding resistance by the occupying population, plus in some cases, far reaching negative shifts in public opinion globally.

The putative rationales for...

The 2008 election of Barack Obama was moving, not only for me and others who voted for Obama, but also for many who didn't support his candidacy. At one point everyone appreciated the historic barriers that had been crossed, and were grateful for the new more inclusive political landscape. We...

On November 5, President Obama will begin a four day trip to India. This will begin with a Business and Entrepreneurship Summit that has been carefully organized with big U.S. and European business interests.

A number of NGOs working on public health issues are concerned that the...

In his Monday segment on Rick Sanchez, Jon Stewart makes fun of the guy who just lost his job, because of Jon Stewart. The segment was, I thought, mean spirited, and relied upon selective use of clips and points to avoid dealing with Sanchez's original comments.

To...

Like pretty much everyone else, I was surprised by James O'Keefe's latest effort to destroy the vast left wing conspiracy. Among other things, I was struck by the fact that the organizers of the botched seduction of Abbie Boudreau seemed to think that James O'Keefee needed Viagra, stamina pills and...

The Obama Administration has again blocked the public release of the text of an important intellectual property enforcement agreement. The White House has made the completion of the agreement a high priority, which it will describe as something to protect U.S. jobs -- and hopes to complete the global pack...