NEW YORK, September 14, 2009 -- Kanye West interrupted President Obama's speech to the New York City investment banking community today, grabbing the microphone just as the President was launching into prepared remarks about the need for regulatory reform of America's financial markets.

"I know we're all gathered here...

Something weird has been happening lately. I haven't mentioned it because, well, it's just so strange. But I've decided that announcing it might ease the awkwardness, the embarrassment and, yes, the fear that washes over me each time it occurs.

I don't know how to put it into words,...

The Republican Party announced today that it will honor the legacy of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy by continuing its campaign to defeat any prospect of health care reform.

"Senator Kennedy was a great humanitarian," said Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, "who worked tirelessly to improve the...

One of the fun things about being a columnist for the Huffington Post is that anonymous sources send me hot inside information, totally out of the blue.
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This information comes in "over the transom," as they used to say. For those unfamiliar with the ink-smudged, glory-filled days...

I have news for America.

News for the irate mobs at town hall meetings, for the television journalists looking for the next three-ring circus at which to point their cameras, and for the former governor of Alaska, who lives in a world constructed by her own broken imagination, grows increasingly...

1. 1,000 Strong for a Declaration of Independence

2. Tell the Founding Fathers to Write the Constitution Already!

3. Standing with Lincoln on the Slavery Issue

4. Seward is Not a Lunatic! (1 member)

5. Tell Senator McCarthy He Has No Sense of Decency

6. Please Pass the Word about...

Well, it was a bad week, I guess. Michael Phelps was caught smoking down, and it turns out the Obama transition team wasn't really "vetting" anything. If "vetting" means, you know, "checking to see whether nominees to cabinet posts paid their taxes." That? They weren't checking on that. It makes...

And now the end is near
Like that man said about the curtain
I stand alone up here
There's just one thing of which I'm certain

I never gave it all I had
Instead I gave just what I felt like
On any day in...

My fellow Americans. At this proud moment, on this auspicious occasion dawning of a new era quadrennial federal holiday, in this biting cold freezing rain impenetrable fog, we gather together huddle in pain are already bored.

America is a shining city a grand experiment basically broke on a hill in...

In the wake of Barack Obama's selection of RIck Warren to give the convocation at the Inauguration, America has been asking itself one question: Rick who? The answer invites a raft of new questions, such as, What the Hell? and The Inauguration? He had to invite him to THE INAUGURATION?...

This week China blocked Web access to the New York Times, presumably to keep its citizens from reading news from the United States. As an occasional columnist for a comedy news website, my responsibility is clear. If there's one place no one ever looks for real news, it's 23/6,...

Congratulations! You're the governor of a state in which a U.S. Senator has died in office or been elected President. You know what that means! That's right, it's payday, baby! Your long slog in the trenches of state politics are about to pay off, thank God, as you can trade...

Alan Colmes announced this week that he will leave the Hannity & Colmes show, where for 12 years he has served as a white Tanto co-host for Sean Hannity. So what better time to look back at some of Alan Colmes' best moments on the most fair and balanced political...

The Obama administration is going to be so cool. These people think of everything. The other day I discovered that the transition has its own Website, even its own blog. Obama understands our generation's compulsive need to record every experience for posterity, in journalistic style, as if the...

Barack Obama speaks to the nation tonight in a half-hour television spot airing just before the World Series. Obama's problem? We are all completely sick of the presidential campaign. What was once a spirited exercise in democracy has become the collective trauma of unending mental pain. I've had to read...

Dear Diary,

So I'm just gonna write stuff down. Just whatever I think. Anything you know.

So far I have 14 words. 20! Ha!

Mainly, though, about bein' on the presidential campaign. Which is a blessing that happened to me, just out of the blue. Like I was made Queen,...

Did anyone get the feeling that, despite turning in the better performance, Obama lost ground in the last debate? What accounts for this feeling?

Perhaps it's that I rely on acupuncture to control my anxiety, rather than the large-animal tranquilizers my physician recommends. (But if I went with the tranquilizer,...

The past week has revealed John McCain's campaign to be a complete and utter political disaster. McCain is Krakatoa. His campaign is the Titanic. Imagine an Indonesian volcano bellowing fire and smoke as it rams an iceberg and sinks without a trace, and you've got the McCain campaign. The tiny...

Gosh hi! Oh my, hey! I see lots of you out there!

Hello America and welcome to my inaug . . . inau . . . gosh darn it.

First presidential address! Couldn't see that but I'm OK now, thanks.

It's just so amazin'! Bein' a hockey mom, you know....

It was a different time. More innocent, I guess. Nights when Todd was up on the Slope she'd sit at the kitchen table as I made coffee, planning her latest vendetta and trying to learn how the local government worked. What fell within the mayor's province and what was out...