Partisan - as defined by Merriam Webster's -- is a familiar term to anyone with a fifth-grade education: "a firm adherent to a party, faction, ca...
Last week we heard the Dems talk a lot about hope, about change, and about possibility. This week we got a very clear, and familiar refrain from the Republicans. Be afraid, be very very afraid.
The John McCain who fought for campaign finance reform in the past is not the same John McCain speaking tonight. Here's what he'll claim, and what the truth really is.
Immediately following John McCain's speech on Thursday night at the RNC, NBC's Andrea Mitchell was attacked by falling balloons while on the floor of...
SAINT PAUL, Minn. - The 2008 Republican National Convention today announced the full program of events for Thursday, Sept. 4. The evening's program wi...
23/6 correspondent Eugene Mirman tries to blend in at the Republican National Convention: ...
It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers ...
Today my media diet consists of a lot of people chirping about how appealing Sarah Palin is based on her RNC speech, a speech that was exactly as appealing as a blast from a howitzer.
A Republican stalwart who played a key role in implementing the Bush agenda, in his speech tonight, McCain attempted to recast himself as an "outsider" eager to clean up the mess he helped create.
NEW YORK — Barack Obama apparently isn't the only "rock star" in presidential politics this year. After days of intense media coverage about Re...
Palin? Palin? Ben Stein of "Ferris Bueller" fame is beside himself over Sen. John McCain's choice for vice president. "I'm confused and disturbed by...
Mike Huckabee, trying to promote Palin and insult Biden at the RNC, illustrates one thing: he can't do math.
To witness the Republican National Convention in St. Paul is to witness the bludgeoning of the brain, the twisting of the knife, the boot in the face.
The underlying problem is that Bush and McCain supporters don't like to deal with the messy reality of warfare that genuine troops bring to the table.
A video that was supposed to air at the convention last night was just made available to Fox news. It's a short biography of Sarah Palin prepared by ...
It is not Sarah Palin's shortage of experience, but her lack of sophistication that is most troubling. It was a cute applause line, describing herself...
The Young Turks have been broadcasting all week long from the Republican National Convention. We have had some really interesting interviews with Dunc...
And to think I decided not to go the DNC. "Too boring!" I said to myself. Who knew? Now, I'm obsessively following the furious debate about Palin an...
Hours ahead of Sarah Palin's big speech at the RNC, the Palin family met the McCain family as they arrived at the airport. Visible in the live shots o...
The usual gang of idiots over at MAD Magazine have once again offered Huffington Post readers the first look at some of their political coverage from the new issue.
SAINT PAUL, Minn. - The 2008 Republican National Convention today announced the full program of events for Wednesday, Sept. 3. The evening's program w...
Download This Clip! Funk The War, a student activist group that seeks to end the war in Iraq through music and dancing, took to the streets Monday...
Palin's speech was not meant to inform or inspire her audience -- it was meant to call down the force that will re-ignite the culture wars of the late 20th century. And so it did.
