The Prolonging of Palin
The only question that is left is whether the promised popularity of her book says more about her or about those who buy her book.
The only question that is left is whether the promised popularity of her book says more about her or about those who buy her book.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins and Alex Leo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Comedy
During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama met many of his fellow countrymen, as he made his case for the presidency hither and yon. But only one of the ...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy
The annual Funniest Celebrity in DC contest happened this week and while most of the people involved are not celebrities or funny, one contestant hit ...
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy
White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee won first prize in the 16th annual "D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity" contest last night. In his performance he...
Tony Sachs | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
Last year, for my dad's birthday, I trawled through his hundreds of comments on HuffPosts ranging from Sarah Palin to baseball. With that in mind, here's the sequel to "My Dad's Greatest Hits."
Brian Ross | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The GOP machine politicos who are organizing them want us to see a country in outrage against our black, liberal, socialist president.
Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the radical Right's leading figures have more in common than just the power they command within GOP ranks.
Beth Armogida | Posted 08.26.2009 | Comedy
I saw the video clip of your passionate speech to Representative Mike Castle on YouTube right after I watched a cat do the Riverdance.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Fear, not surprisingly, has remained one of the key tenets of the Republican message during Obama's presidency.
The Progress Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Republicans are still finding their "way out of the wilderness" when it comes to immigration.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
That if you are poor, the government should pay for your education, medical care, housing, clothing, and food. That the richest people in the country...
Charles H. Green | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business
This ideology didn't just happen. It was four decades in the making. Sachs and Stanley refined it; private equity and financial engineers distilled it; Merril, Stearns and Joe the Plumber got drunk on it.
The Daily Beast | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Thirty-eight year old Audra Shay's campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, aft...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Joe the Plumber won the "Countdown" award for "World's Best Person" after he received advice from God telling him a run for political office was inadv...
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Joe the Plumber is planning a Tea Party tour for the Fourth of July holiday, World Net Daily reports. Samuel Wurzelbacher first gained notoriety dur...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Joe the Plumber made it back onto the political scene for, as Olbermann describes it, "fomenting violence against elected officials." According to th...
The Huffington Post | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, better known as "Joe the Plumber," has had his fifteen minutes of fame during the 2008 election and was widely expected to ...
Les Leopold | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
We cannot thrive or even survive in an economy that only moves money around instead of producing tangible goods and services.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
You can understand how disappointing it must have been, especially for the folks who'd dreamed up the idea in the first place. They had to compromise,...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
when Republicans actually come face-to-face, or even voice-to-voice, with the actual Obama, they can't help but be reassured -- or is it disappointed? -- that he's not the bogeyman they've made him out to be.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media
Elisabeth Hasselbeck disowned "Joe The Plumber" Thursday morning on "The View." Hasselbeck, who campaigned on the trail with Sarah Palin in October, ...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Stop the presses... (even though we haven't received the press release yet). Time Magazine is reporting - burying rather - the news that Joe the Plumb...
Bob Cesca | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Why don't you want to protect religious people, Hannity? Why don't you want to protect disabled people, Limbaugh? Why don't you want to protect women, Congresswoman Foxx?
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Time to evolve past Joe the Plumber, past Rush Limbaugh, past the politics and ideology that verge on those that launched the Spanish Inquisition.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books