Tempest in a Teabag: Tea Party Founder Announces He's (Re)Joining GOP
Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.
Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
Fox News is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC is absolutely not a liberal mirror-image. The slant is not equal, nor do the two channels offset like penalties in a football game.
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...
Morgan Warners | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.
Lance Simmens | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
A flat tax is regressive, adversely affects the poorest the worst, and rejects the notion that those who are most able should contribute more to the perpetuation of an equitable and just society.
HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Health care town halls are fast becoming ground zero in the battle over health reform, with attempts to hold a civil discussion sometimes being intent...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Birthers: the people who believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, or Indonesia, or Mars, or the Seventh Ring of Hell.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
Those who wish for Obama to adopt a stronger tone ground their argument in the arrogant belief that our endorsement is the sine qua non of any successful democratic political movement.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
A good way to fuel bigoted behavior is to make dissidents feel like they don't have an outlet for their frustrations.
Larry Gellman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
I always thought that taxes were the way we paid our bills. In a democracy we have elected representatives who spend money on our behalf on things like defense, security, wars, bridges, and health care benefits.-
Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media
Massive, unfiltered exercises in citizen journalism can tilt public understanding as surely as the rush of passengers from one side to the other can threaten the stability of a small boat.
Petoskey News-Review | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Emmet County's chapter of Taxed Enough Already is hoping to draw up to 1,000 people to its latest demonstration at 6 p.m. Friday, May 1, in Petoskey's...
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
Fox News has gone to tremendous lengths mainstreaming the sometimes violent, revolutionary doomsday rhetoric of the far right, which used to be confined to the extremist fringe.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media
Remember back on Tea Party Day how that CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, went on the air in Chicago, basically doing her best to manufacture a little acti...
Byron Williams | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
The "Tax Day Tea Party" used an event critical to transforming the 13 British colonies into the United States of America for their own political purposes, thus, cheapening a key point in history.
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
The conservative pot must be stirred and their anger about pretty much everything, seasoned to the taste.
Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
The people here didn't, as a whole, remind me of some dumbass redneck stereotype. No, they reminded me of anti-Bush, anti-war protesters from about four years ago.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
Last week's Tea Parties went forward despite the fact that there was a little bit of dispute over who owned the Tea Party movement -- a battle between...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media
Rush Limbaugh blasted a caller on his radio show who blamed the host for encouraging anti-Obama rhetoric and advocating for last week's tax day tea pa...
Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
Hailing Joe the Plumber as an authority on tax policy is kind of like appointing the puffy-shirted FreeCreditReport.com guys expertise on the Somali pirate situation.
Bill Shireman | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
Let's sit down with the right for tea. Let them vent their anger and hate - and we can vent ours. Let's listen to the fear that lies beneath the hate, to the reasons they're afraid.
HuffPost Citizen Journalists | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos...
Daniel Sinker | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
Without two decades wandering the desert, we wouldn't have built the modern infrastructure that the left stands on now. So laugh if you want, but today's teabaggers may be tomorrow's resurgent Right.
Dawn Teo | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics