Over at Time's Swampland today, Joe Klein takes on the public option in a post titled "What The Public Option Actually Does." The actual work of expl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
With Obama's school address now behind us, the claims made by opponents of the address look more absurd than ever. And yet it should have never come to this point.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Driving today's fearful discussion about czars this morning is a Politico article that 's a fine example of what it does best: provide a distillation of political scuttlebutt and press releases into a story.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy
We have obtained "leaked footage" of President Obama's speech to our nation's children. Take a look. But be warned, it may shock and horrify you.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
UPDATE, 8:17 P.M. EST: ABC News is reporting that some school districts in six states (Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota), ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
The Orlando Weekly's Bloggytown is reporting today that a rather generic letter, sent to school principals across the United States by Secretary of Ed...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media
This morning, on his radio show, Beck told his listeners that "they" -- a word he'll use fourteen times inside a minute and a half -- have staged some sort of coup d'etat, that "they" have cleverly disguised as an election. It's only Monday!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
I don't have any idea if the ongoing flight of sponsors from the Glenn Beck Show is having any effect on its bottom line, but it sure isn't tempering its content! Yesterday's Glenn Beck show was MAGICAL.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Matt Corley over at ThinkProgress noted yesterday that former Arkansas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee has got a brand ne...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
Once you get to know the "birthers," you become aware that a singular trait that they all share is a chronic and indefatigable laziness. After all, w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Michael Steele is running a bit late to the latest "Let's Frighten The Villagers With Lies" party, but, as TPM's Rachel Slajda points out, he's plungi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
In yesterday's edition of the New York Post, New York City was told that the Obama health care plan was going to cause an immediate and utter TAXAPOCA...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.02.2009 | Comedy
Stewart spoke from the perspective of someone who lived through a terrorist attack and had little patience for fools who just casually suggest that maybe we'd all benefit from another one.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
As many of you know, the modern and civilized life that we lead in America, as sensible people, has long clashed terribly with the panoply of phantasm...
Tom Andrews | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
Don't be surprised if the spike in violence that came in advance of Iraqi Day of National Sovereignty continues. And don't be surprised if here at home, the right-wing goes on the attack with its favorite weapon, fear.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
Seems like it was only yesterday that I, along with the rest of the world, were setting our hair on fire in panic at the news on the Drudge Report tha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
Sweet Golly Goshens but does Matt Drudge have the scooplet of the century! He's got a picture of NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams -- who was...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
The Washington Independent's Dave Weigel -- who, like a Jane Goodall of political madness, has logged many an hour studying the panicky paranoid fring...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
In his ongoing efforts to treat the American public as they have rarely been treated -- that is, as adults -- Obama pointed out several rational things.
Bob Cesca | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
Once again, rather than doing what's right, Harry Reid has collapsed under pressure and is doing what's right wing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
Sweet sassy molassey! A column in the recent issue of D Magazine is freaking everybody out today, and with good reason! It contains the line: From...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy
House Minority Leader John Boehner, from the state of Ohio which I know so well, released a video today called "Do You Feel Safe?" to helpfully suggest why we should be scared shitless.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green
Considering how fast Twitter has self-propagated, and thanks to the Internet and our constant news cycles, might Swine Flu be the Twitter of viruses?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Media
As near as anyone knows, the recent outbreaks of swine flu in the United States have been the result of Americans, returning to America, from Mexico, ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
Hello. Please to enjoy the following remix of the NOM "Gathering Storm Of Gay Marriage" commercial! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Meghan McCain's media s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media