Last April, the Monday after the Jets traded up to draft Mark Sanchez, just up the block from the Roosevelt Avenue taco wagons, their new quarterback got a huge ovation before throwing out the first pitch (a high fastball) at Citi Field. It was a public coming out party, and...

A recent Baton Rouge Advocate article detailed the 14 trips taken by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in a taxpayer-funded helicopter to Protestant evangelical churches. Jindal, a Catholic, spent an estimated $45,000 to attend Sunday services. Some religious leaders believe this to be a violation of...

My Fellow HuffPovians,

As the town hall health care debates rage on across the country, I fear that I am too focused on the photos of angry folks. I bet some of you are as well. The negative imagery is affecting my duty, as an engaged citizen, to try...

This morning a tragic story appeared to me via the magic of the Facebook wall.

It seems a dedicated Boston father took his 10-year-old daughter to Fenway Park yesterday, where her favorite player hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh that would prove to be...

In 1999, as a journalist for magazines like Outside and Harper's, Nick Reding noticed that crystal methamphetamine was becoming part of everyday life across America. He saw the problem in small towns everywhere, acutely understood by locals, ignored nationally. The more Reding looked, the...

Attention, America!

We sit on the precipice of a total meltdown of one of the key economic backboners of this great nation.

The professional pornography business is in jeopardy.

It's our patriotic duty to do all we can to save this...

I've been writing about cars for awhile, and it has its perks. Mainly, getting to test drive dream rides, but also the occasional chance to attend auto-sponsored events. As a guest of Lexus (Stylish vehicles! Good gas mileage! Liquid assets!), I went to the U.S. Open at Bethpage on...

I was recently listening to a Fresh Air interview with Chip Berlet,a senior analyst for the independent think tank Political Research Associates (PRA) who has spent 25 years tracking extremist hate groups. I was taken aback when Bertlet told Terry...

A few weeks back, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece about how I would be getting an (Un)legal Divorce until same-sex marriages becomes the law of the land. I was contacted by Alexis Ortega, a student at Stanford and a director of the National Marriage Boycott. The...

Dear LBGT Community,

I am sick that, once again, there has been a setback in your quest for the basic American right to get married. Prop 8 was bad enough, but the Supreme Court ruling was worse in its sheer illogicality (Yes, that's a word). Many have claimed that the...

This week, GQ's Robert Draper broke the story that Donald Rumsfeld used cover sheets juxtaposing Bible quotes and war imagery for the top-secret intelligence briefings he hand-delivered to the White House. The "Crusades-like messaging" is one of many revelations in his exhaustive insiders account of the Rumsfeld era,

Now that Swine Flu has turned the country into a giant seething Project Blue cauldron of death, the conspiracy theorists are out in full force. But as usual, they're clinging to the obvious targets who further their agenda, and not trying to get through the looking glass, to understand who...

I am not a teenage girl. I am not the father of a teenage girl. None of the people I see on a regular basis are a teenage girl. Since all of the malls are being shuttered, I can no longer enjoy the pleasure of visiting the food court...

Dear Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner,

It is my understanding that Team Obama has reached a crossroads. I recently came across an article laying out the key problem you good folks face in solving the banking conundrum.

"The problem comes down to how to deal with the banks'...

In the darkest loneliest hours, Republicans have been doing a lot of soul-searching trying to figure out where it all went wrong. Oh sure, in public they put on a good face, taking strong bold actions like refusing money to build bridges--or levies--to a new generation of GOP followers,...

Like you, I am sick of all the talking about the economy, without the doing something about the economy. Of course, rigorous debate is needed on how to shore things up before it's Shantytown, U.S.A., but certain economic talking points have been beaten to death and become rather tiring. We...

In the proud tradition of carriage mechanic William Howard Russell, gas lamp repairman Stephen Crane, and pipe-fitter David Halberstam, Pajamas Media* is sending unlicensed plumber Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher to Gaza as a war correspondent. As the Pajama party notes, Joe the Plumber "shook up America" and "he's ready to do...

I can't remember if it was Casey Kasem or Chuck Klosterman who recently noted that "Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It's more like reviewing a unicorn. Should I primarily be blown away that it exists at all?"

But after giving the rock-and-roll version of Magnolia...

Now that we've been able to shake off our Election Night hangovers, (thanks 23/6!) it's time to assess what the 1,460-day campaign taught us. Clearly, there were winners and losers along the way, and not just the obvious ones like Yentl or Lt. Col....

To paraphrase the great political scientist Penny Lane:

Tomorrow, It's all happening.

After months of campaigning, the United States will finally have a new man in charge. You've probably made up your mind by now, but as the author of the Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents, I...