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HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
Dixie Redfearn of Nevada City, Calif. wrote the Huffington Post to say her 30-year journalism career ended when she lost her job more than four months...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Louisiana Rep. John Fleming (R) has put up a guest post at TownHall, in which he professes to be "amazed at the number of bureaucrats in this House wh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
One of the key Democratic senators whose vote remains up for grabs when it comes to health care reform urged his colleagues to continue to push for a ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
Seems like only yesterday I was talking about the way Sean Hannity cooks up some news, for his teevee show. It goes a little something like this: 1...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
Payday loans are touted as a useful financial product for middle-class households that just need a little help making ends meet in the short term. But...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
I received something of a shock whilst riding into the office on the subway this morning: There, on the front page of the Washington Post, above the f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Sarah Palin continues to be a dynamic cultural figure as much as a political one. The Alaska Governor, who announced her impending resignation from of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers in a recent briefing that the intelligence agency he heads misled Congress on "significant actions" for a "nu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
President Bill Clinton, who during his administration spearheaded the last effort to overhaul the health care system, predicted on Wednesday that Pres...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business
Consumer Watchdog -- which, as the name implies is a consumer watchdog organization -- is raising alarms over privacy concerns that have been brought ...
Posted 07.08.2009 | Media
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people? According to Gawker, the bright and shiny lights have once again dazzled Fox & Friends host ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media
Whenever President Barack Obama goes abroad, cameras follow him, and record the things he says to people. Just as often, it seems, Fox's Sean Hannity...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
So, look back at the presidential campaign when President Barack Obama promised to do away with the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" regulation, which forces ev...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Sweet sassy molassey! Mike DeBonis of the Washington City Paper has WON THE AFTERNOON with this epic slice of awesomeness, in which he reveals many l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Members of the House Financial Services Committee, which is playing a critical role in restructuring the nation's reeling financial, banking and housi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Sarabeth at 1115.org draws attention to this downright scary story from CNN, detailing how investigators, sent to test security protocols at all sorts...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Two Senators said on Tuesday that they disagreed with President Obama's backchannel complaints that progressive advocacy groups ought to stop targetin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Via Wonkette comes the news that former Virginia senator and mutterer of racist exotica George Allen is going to be writing a book, and that book is g...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank has weighed in on the way the Washington Post attempted to launch a massive "Hey, Lobbyists, Let's All G...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
The Democratic National Committee is taking the aggressive step of going after Republican politicians, accusing them of posturing and hypocrisy, when ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to crash a dinner party for Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). It was one of many fundraisers happen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
Hours after he was seated, Sen. Al Franken, D-MN, let it be known that he would be sign on as a co-sponsor to the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor-...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media
What a frabjous day for former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who have finally surmounted what seemed to be his most insurmountable object --...
After a three-night stay in Moscow, the Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President...
How would you like to live in the White House? Take the HuffPost Poll of World Leaders' Residences...
UPDATE: Paris Jackson also spoke. Watch her moving...
In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
The following post...
Below are photos from Michael Jackson's memorial, with Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson,...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
It's been a rocky year for Letterman and Palin. He joked...
Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
PARIS — French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, who was recently banned for betting on matches,...
It was with interest that I read Dr. Soram Khalsa's post on The Huffington Post...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
When making a list of "smart animals," crows probably wouldn't be at the top for...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business