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WATCH: An Unprecedented Look Inside A Factory Making iPads

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 02.23.2012

Following weeks of intense scrutiny of worker treatment at Apple's Chinese suppliers, the tech giant granted Nightline's Bill Weir unprecedented acces...

Why the Marianne Gingrich Interview Helps Newt Gingrich

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 03.20.2012

James Marshall Crotty

Like Clinton, Newt Gingrich is transparently duplicitous and two-faced. However, also like Clinton, Gingrich is smart and capable. Most important, like his Southern soul brother in sin and redemption, Gingrich knows how policy sausage is made.

Trymaine Lee

Former Prisoner Receives Polk Award

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 06.15.2011

At a podium inside the Roosevelt Hotel last week, Wilbert Rideau, 69, stood before an audience of academics and journalists, as he prepared to deliver...

Things my mom showed me

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

My poor mother. I was her second child and she had me when she was only 20 years old. While David, my brother who is a year and two days older than m...

The Death of a Diet ... NOT!

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Everything in life has a cycle. Not to sound morbid here, but even businesses, ideas, all forms of life - are conceived, born, grow, peak, decline an...

Priceless

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

I love a good salad bar. Ruby Tuesdays is one of my favorite places to eat out - because of their awesome salad bar. (Though they also have a 980 calo...

Daydream Believer...

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Ever daydream about being thin? Oh, come on. Be honest. Anyone who has ever tasted getting to goal as much as they've tasted fried food knows what I'm...

Dieting on the job ... and at home

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

I'm not like many people--I never worked outside the home. I went to college. Got my degree. Then worked for my mom as a graphic designer in her home-...

Just for today...

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Several Wednesday nights ago at my weight loss meeting a new member joined our group. I'll call her Amy. This was her first time following any diet (y...

I've got a bridge in Brooklyn ...

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

You CAN lose weight - and KEEP it off. Do you believe that? If you do, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn ... No, seriously. Here's the story of that famo...

A Fresh Start

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Why does a new notebook feel so good? (Or maybe you can relate better to a brand new food journal.) It's more than just a clean writing space ... it'...

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE AND WE DON'T DRINK ENOUGH!

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Seventy Percent! That's the number to remember this week. If something makes up 70% of your body, you'd think it was pretty important. Yup. This week'...

Practice. Practice. Practice

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

You've done it before a million times. Maybe you're presenting at a meeting or confronting a co-worker on an issue. You run through it in your mind,...

Goldline Being Probed By Los Angeles D.A., 'Dateline' Investigates

Huffington Post | Tom Kent | Posted 05.25.2011

Goldline, more popularly known for its high-profile endorsements from Fox News' Glenn Beck and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, is under i...

Frustrations in Chip Counting

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Ever since I started writing my blog I vowed I would write about counting potato chips. Some of you will think this is "over the top", but others will...

Another Message From the Average Black Person

Elon James White | Posted 11.17.2011

Elon James White

What are you guys DOING? From politics to relationships, every time someone seems to be explaining Black folks it comes off as completely asinine.

Bricks, Goals and Will Smith ... Say WHAT?

Kim Bensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Kim Bensen

Goal setting. You hear the phrase all the time. "Set your goals and you will have a better chance of achieving them." I have to be honest. I was nev...

Deepak Chopra Debates Existence Of Higher Power With Skeptics On ABC's Nightline (VIDEO)

Posted 03.13.2012

Egos clashed on ABC's Nightline when modern-day guru Deepak Chopra entered a week-long debate against arch athiest Dr. Michael Shermer. The debate was...

Dieting Through The Hardships Of Life

Kim Bensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Kim Bensen

When I started my "bajillionth" and last diet in 2001, I didn't tell anyone except my girlfriend Cathy, my husband Mark, and my children that I was...

The New Female Supreme Court Justice: 50, Single, Childless, Ivy League Educated

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Sophia A. Nelson

It struck me as I was thinking about the last two Supreme Court nominees offered by President Obama, that we may be seeing a pattern. Single, well educated ivy-league women, with no children.

"Burying" the Truth: Nightline Reporter Channels Bill O'Reilly and Does a Hatchet Job

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

Coleen Rowley

In a sad commentary on the currently disintegrating state of "main stream media", I found myself ambushed on Saturday, March 6th, just ten minutes aft...

What If We Changed the Question

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

A few years ago (more than I'd care to admit) I went to a parenting conference that challenged the attending moms and dads to ask ourselves, "How you...

IS IT OKAY TO BE FAT?

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

Kim Bensen

Okay, let's face it. We are a fat nation. Well, at least two-thirds of us are. Seat sizes have increased in cars, stadiums - even toilets. Many of u...

Afghanistan: A History of Failed Press Coverage

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

For almost 30 years, American press coverage of Afghanistan has been simplistic, misleading, unexamining, accepting and echoing government propaganda, and just plain wrong. There

Five Questions Oprah Should Have Asked Elizabeth Edwards

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Stanton Peele

Oprah Winfrey seemingly confronted critical issues in her interview with Elizabeth Edwards about Edwards' book, Resilience. The book and the intervie...