Friday Talking Points -- Labor Daze
It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.
It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.
Katie Halper | Posted 11.01.2011
I doubt that any members of the Congressional Black Caucus got any sleep last night. I'm sure they were tossing and turning, sick with worry and regret, trembling in fear over Allen West's threat to leave the caucus.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.31.2011
The history of lynching should not be abused and belittled by politicians in hyperbolic fashion to make a much smaller point. Even if, or perhaps especially if, the politician in question is black.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Wednesday he is considering leaving the Congressional Black Caucus after one of its leaders said Tea Party...
Posted 10.31.2011
Allen West, a Republican congressman from Florida and a champion of Tea Party groups, said he was mulling quitting the Congressional Black Caucus afte...
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.10.2011
President Obama honored the sacrifices that Muslim Americans have made for the country on Wednesday night at the White House's annual Ramadan dinner. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.10.2011
The two members of Congress who practice Islam will attend President Obama's annual Ramadan dinner at the White House Wednesday night, along with a nu...
Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011
Mainstream Islam does not advocate fighting except in self-defense.
Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011
The Marvin Scott campaign, long mired in anti-Muslim bigotry itself, has indicated they are considering cutting gay-basher Stan Solomon loose.
AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011
Three Democratic congressmen – all black – say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Abusive, derogatory and even racist behavior directed at House Democrats by Tea Party protesters on Saturday left several lawmakers in shock. Prece...
Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to Bilerico Project, Blue Indiana and the Huffington Post's liveblog of the 2010 Indiana Democratic Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Feel free t...
Posted 05.25.2011
Several House members had their websites hacked overnight after President Obama's State of the Union Address. Around 6:30 a.m. Eastern, the sites of J...
Chuck Lasker | Posted 05.25.2011
I looked for the "VIP" seats, but there were no seats. Further and further we were sent, until in the rain, we entered a muddy open-air pen where we couldn't even see the stage.
Posted 05.25.2011
IN-07: Campo vs Carson
AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011
INDIANAPOLIS — Democrat Andre Carson won't have much time to bask in his special election victory. In just eight weeks, he faces another vote fo...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2011