Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, the hip hop duo that makes up Insane Clown Posse is pretty unhappy with the FBI for labeling their fan-base, known as Juggalos, as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang," so unhappy that they're suing.
With Thursday's news that another of the four Republican senators in New York who voted for gay marriage had lost the support of a local conservative committee, we're starting to see the contours of the case against them, which isn't based on their gay marriage vote—or so the opponents say.
Andy Kessler on social media in campaigns, Fareed Zakaria on the Afghanistan drawdown, Ezra Klein on the welfare state, Joshua Green on a Romney-Paul 'bromance', and Kirsten Powers on Obama's apologies.
What to say about the great Mustache Scandal of 2012? Well, it serves to make a lobby for men with mustaches look better than the gullible Congressional candidate entangled in the crosshairs.
Two years after judges blocked the most controversial parts of a tough Arizona immigration law, a judge has blocked a less publicized part of the law in a move that seems likely to give its opponents even more hope.
In his reply to a letter sent from a Koch Companies employee Wednesday, Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina criticized the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity Fund and helped advance the ever-growing Koch-Obama spat.
February 29th, aka, Leap Day, is an occasion for news outlets to publish frivolous stories about the quirky fate of having a birthday that comes once every four years. But this year, we've noted a hint of darkness.
John Dickerson on Romney's victories, Amy Davidson on Olympia Snowe, John Kerry on foreign aid, Margaret Carlson on Scott Brown, and Bert Stratton on landlords
Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, often considered the most moderate Republican senator, won't be seeking reelection, according to a statement she posted to Facebook.
It flirted with us all week by rising above and finishing below, but finally The Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed a day of trading above 13,000.
Sure John McCain might be stumping for Mitt Romney but that doesn't mean he likes the guy's tactics.
Charles Lane on gas prices, David Carr on federal whistle-blowers, Kimberley Strassel on Rick Santorum, Stephen Trachtenberg on affirmative action, and Jane Harman on Bashar al-Assad.
Rick Santorum's last-ditch campaign strategy for the Michigan primary has him united with an unlikely constituency: prankster Democrats.
Following Sunday's attacks on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Newt Gingrich sounded a pessimistic note about U.S. involvement there.
Michael Tomasky on the Michigan primary, Mary Anastasia O'Grady on rethinking the drug war, William Cohan on Wall Street incentives, Juliette Kayyem on nucelar reductions, and Neal Ascherson on Scottish independence.
The trial of Rutgers student Dharun Ravi began Friday, with the focus on both sides not on the facts of the case -- he's accused of bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, who later committed suicide -- but on the intentions of the defendant.
Mark Wahlberg says a friend at the firm charged with tallying Oscar votes has told him all the Academy Award winners in advance of this weekend's ceremony, and he's out to spoil it for the rest of us by revealing them to the Huffington Post UK.
The Associated Press scored an interview with Paula Deen Friday in which she responds to the widespread criticism of the way she went about announcing her diabetes, and the fatty-foods loving chef doesn't exactly sound penitent.
For his embarrassing partial quote of the day, Mitt Romney ended a speech in Detroit with an apparent attempt to reach out to the car-making community there, saying, "Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually."
The Sunlight Foundation's Lindsay Young has a timely report investigating the political donations of those lucky few whose names appear on the list of nominees for this weekend's Academy Awards, and -- wonder of wonders -- these Hollywood types tend to give a lot of money to Democrats, reaffirming that not much can shake the film industry's faith in their favorite party.
David Brooks on tax loopholes, Fouad Ajami on Syrian intervention, Ruth Marcus on the Title X debate, Dorothy Rabinowitz on Rick Santorum, and Jonathan Alter on Mitt Romney's Keynesian gaffe.
Several attacks and car bombings across Iraq today have killed at least 55 people and injured hundreds more. The Iraqi Interior Ministry called it a "frantic race" by insurgents to undermine the nation's stability.
The State of Alaska released the latest batch of e-mails from Sarah Palin's time as governor, but the nation's reporters aren't chartering jets to Juneau to get a first peek at any scandalous revelations they may contain.
After a committee approved a bill that would give "unborn children" the legal rights of citizens, the bill was defeated Thursday in the Virginia Senate.
Google announced they'd hired Staten Island's former U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari as their vice president of public policy and government relations for the Americas, Politico reported Thursday.
With this week's news that the supposedly Einstein-disproving breakthrough may have resulted from experimental error, is it time to join forces with those critics who thought the CERN scientists touted their research too soon?
George Will on Republican candidates, Bill Gates on teacher evaluations, Joshua Green on Super PACs, Meghan Daum on Internet parenting, and Michael Wolff on Obama v. Santorum
The FBI announced Tuesday that Viacom receiving "suspicious mailings" addressed to Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer reported that three Congressional offices also received suspicious packages containing powdery substances.
Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra has removed his "DebbieSpenditNow" ad from the internet, weeks after his xenophobic Super Bowl ad caused an uproar.
On the same day President Obama proposed a tax reform plan, Mitt Romney is announcing details for his own tax plan in a speech in Arizona.
The New York Times Magazine's Matt Bai has a new story featuring an in depth interview with Scott Ritter, the U.N. weapons inspector who loudly questioned our reasons for entering the Iraq War and who was later convicted in an underage sex sting.
Adam Winkler on affirmative action, Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum's Nazi rhetoric, Amy Davidson on Koran burning, Austan Goolsbee on boosting exports, and Michael Warsaw on the contraception mandate.
Chelsea Clinton will likely expand her three month trial run as a correspondent for NBC News, reports The New York Times's Amy Chozick, despite rumors to the contrary.
The Associated Press reports that a foiled plot to assassinate Israeli targets in Azerbaijan might make the central European country the latest front in a proxy war between Israel and Iran.
Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert has landed a deal to write a children's book about a flag pole titled I Am a Pole (and So Can You!).
On February 16 Alice Lee launched "Dear Instagram," a site she designed to serve as a pitch-slash-resume-slash-love letter for the new age. In about four days, the site went viral.
The Virginia Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow adoption agencies to turn away parents based on their moral beliefs (read: sexual orientation), and the governor is expected to sign it into law.
William McGurn on Rick Santorum, Ron Klain on gas prices, Richard Cohen on Saudi Arabia, Joe Nocera on governors and gay marriage, and Bret Stephens on the politics of memory.
Peggy Orenstein on Komen, Amy Davidson on religion, Edwin Truman on Europe, Susan Crawford on public internet, and Holman Jenkins, Jr. on Romney.
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at a Goldman Sachs technology conference today, and he had some pretty strong opinions on cheaper tablet alternatives to the iPad.
Just a few days before a high profile visit from Vice President Xi Jinping, China's government refused to allow the U.S. State Department's ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom into the country, reports The Washington Post.
More bad news for the floundering Yahoo, as talks over the sale of its Asian assets have been put on hold, reports AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that former presidential candidate Herman Cain turned down an offer to appear on the next season of Dancing with the Stars, and that he did so with his typical panache
Bret Stephens on Xi Jinping, Frank Bruni on Rick Santorum, Dana Milbank on Obama's budget, Jeffrey Goldberg on homicide rates, and Richard Thaler on incentives for citizenship
A man with a machete robbed Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer while he was at his vacation home in the Caribbean Thursday, a Supreme Court spokeswoman announced.
Washington's Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a gay marriage bill into law at a ceremony Monday, meaning same-sex couples will likely be able to get married there beginning June 7.
House Republicans will agree to extend the payroll tax cut for another 10 months without making up for the lost revenue with budget cuts, as they'd previously demanded, reports Bloomberg.
The New Jersey Senate just passed a gay marriage bill by a vote of 24-16, but Gov. Chris Christie has said he'd veto such a law, so it's still unlikely we'll see same-sex marriages there in the immediate future.
Twitamore.com, is a fun, new Valentine's Day themed tool that analyzes data to match a Twitter user with his or her Twitter crush. The Atlantic Wire has put it to work to match-up the politicos who love to flirt and throw rocks at each other on the social network.
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