WATCH: Tea Party Says Hooray For Death?
Having political, ideological or philosophical differences aside, generally, we tend to think of Americans as the kind of folk who don't applaud death...
Having political, ideological or philosophical differences aside, generally, we tend to think of Americans as the kind of folk who don't applaud death...
Posted 11.13.2011
If you missed Monday night's CNN Tea Party Debate, not to worry. BuzzFeed has taken the nearly two hour debate and squeezed it into a 75 second highli...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.15.2011
Something the media largely missed in the midst of multiple budgetary battles this week was the fact that this is what bipartisanship looks like.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- With nine days remaining until government funding expires, House Republican freshmen announced today they plan to rally on the steps of ...
David Kirp | Posted 05.25.2011
To describe the lawmakers' behavior as malign neglect is understating the matter. Smart investments in kids pay off big.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
The Democratic Party lost its spine the moment it decided to cash in on corporate political money. If we don't reverse Citizens United and get the money out of our political system, progressive causes don't stand a chance.
Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011
In backing challenges to GOP moderates, the Tea Party looks like a looking-glass version of the "netroots" progressives who backed Howard Dean in 2004 and Ned Lamont's primary challenge to Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011
Right-wingers want it both ways on a whole bunch of issues. They want to claim they love their gay relatives, yet support every kind of legislation that would deny them equal rights.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011
We may soon find ourselves mourning more of our population as they fall victim to the accidents and mishaps caused by inadequate infrastructure maintenance and repairs.
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday's results really only showed one thing with any clarity -- Sarah Palin is definitely going to run for president.
Think Progress | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
On Monday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) went on MSNBC and hit Democrats for going into "hiding" this summer, implying that they weren't planning to peak wi...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Black members of the tea party movement on Wednesday rejected charges that the group's activists are racist, saying they oppose Pre...
Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011
Compared to the inane rantings of the Tea Partiers we've been hearing, the citizens of Bell actually had legitimate complaints. Bell's top officials were paying themselves like bankers.
Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011
When Republicans question Democrats' patriotism, they are discrediting themselves and demeaning and dangerously dividing the Real America they profess to honor and love.
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
If congressional Republicans opposed the PPCA (i.e., health care reform) because it is an imposition on liberty and the free market, what must they think about the powers of the FDA, which regulates 30% of the economy?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
This "Inside the Beltway" column from Jennifer Harper in the Washington Times begins, "The term 'tea-bagger' is like uttering the 'n' word, some say." Oh, really? Well, "some people" are wrong!
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama seems to have hit a plateau in his approval ratings, which have remained largely unchanged for the past three months. Could it be that we've all just made up our minds about the job the president is doing?
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011
***UPDATE*** The Washington Post's Dave Weigel interviews Chase Whiteside, the man conducting the interviews. A correspondent for New Left Media v...
Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, HuffPost Comedy got a chance to sit down with Mario Cantone and talk about the tea party, Betty White, and Larry King's rekindled romance. ...
Religion News Service | TOM EHRICH | Posted 05.25.2011
By Tom Ehrich Religion News Service (RNS) Even though Tea Party activists probably distrust liberals like myself, I'd like to "reach across the aisle...
AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking t...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
It's tax time again, the time of year when Americans grouse about forking over part of their hard-earned cash to the dear old government. These days,...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican Congressional leadership confirmed that they oppose financial reform and that they oppose breaking up the big banks. That, my friends, is a Republican Declaration of War against the American people
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
The Internet is buzzing about a recently-published article describing the denizens of the Tea Party movement as a collective of gaping-eyed loons. What makes this recent discursive so exciting is that it comes from Fox News.
Posted 11.13.2011