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.
In some exciting news (for media geeks), former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown announced she is giving $30 million to Columbia's journalism school and Stanford's engineering school so they can set up a joint "institute for media innovation."
Julian Assange is going to have a guest spot on the 500th episode of The Simpsons airing in February, and getting the elusive face of Wikileaks onto the show sounds like something out a spy novel, reports Entertainment Weekly.
The White House communications staff must have had a fun Monday as they denied rumors that Michelle Obama spent $50,000 on lingerie during a private shopping spree with the Queen of Qatar at a British boutique
Steve Coll on Iran, Gary Greenberg on the APA, Noah Feldman on Newt Gingrich, Grace-Marie Turner on RomneyCare, and Faiza Patel and Elizabeth Goitein on the NYPD.
After a probe resulted from reports that the CIA was helping the New York Police Department set up surveillance programs in the Muslim community, the CIA is removing its agent from the NYPD, reports the Associated Press.
An immigration group sent East Haven, Conn. Mayor Joseph Maturo 500 tacos to protest his now infamous comment that he might "eat tacos" to reach out to Latinos in the community.
The Weekly Standard drew attention Thursday to video of Vice President Biden discussing the outsourcing of call centers and briefly adopting an Indian accent.
Romney's joke on Letterman last year that "I'm the guy in the photo that comes in your picture frame," seems to be on everyone's mind this month.
President Obama spoke Thursday in Las Vegas, Nevada at a UPS center to promote American-made energy and his "An America Built to Last" campaign, and he also addressed, at least implicitly, his Republican detractors.
Dana Milbank on Ben Bernanke, Ezra Klein on election year rhetoric, Amy Davidson on women at the State of the Union, Henry Levin and Cecilia Rouse on graduation rates, and Richard Thaler on corporate responsibility.
Newt Gingrich is raising some eyebrows for pledging Wednesday: "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American."
Netflix reported a strong fourth quarter Wednesday and confirmed that the rapid exodus of subscribers following this summer's customer relations fiasco has come to an end.
There are some great photos coming out of Egypt Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak as thousands gathered in Tahrir to mark the anniversary and advocate more political reform.
Jim Romenesko had the smart, if random, idea to ask the folks at Target headquarters what they think of Kristen Wiig's "Target Lady" character, the friendly but incompetent employee who has abandoned customers at her register for years on live television.
Cuba's former president, Fidel Castro, wrote an op-ed in the state-run media today with some very harsh words about the field of American Republican candidates.
President Obama spoke in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Wednesday afternoon to a company that builds conveyor belts, the first stop on his three day tour of five states, and he rehashed themes from Tuesday's State of the Union and emphasized the need to bring manufacturing jobs to America
The mayor of East Haven, Connecticut made a racially insensitive comment this week at a rather racially sensitive moment, and now he's learning that there are just some statements so dumb that they can't be blamed on media sensationalism.
Doyle McManus on the State of the Union, Dana Milbank on Newt Gingrich, Jeff Jacoby on the Massachusetts Senate race, Michael Wahid Hanna on Egypt, and Edward Alden and Liam Schwartz on visas.
Winning Our Future, Newt Gingrich's Super PAC, will spend a whopping $6 million on ads in Florida ahead of the primary to highlight Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care law.
Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, whom prosecutors charged with attempting to assassinate the president after he allegedly shot a gun at the White House while President Obama was away, has pled not guilty to the 17-count indictment.
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's military ruling council, announced the army will lift the state's emergency law, but reserved the right to use it in instances of "thuggery," thereby inspiring anything but confidence among critics of military rule.
With Tuesday's news that Debbie Bosanek, Warren Buffett's famed secretary, would attend the State of the Union as a guest of Michelle Obama, the media got a little hint about the subject of the president's speech (hint: taxes). Now we can put a face to a much-discussed name.
Last month, The Washington Post editorial page raised a few eyebrows when four columnists wrote harsh critiques of Newt Gingrich in a single day, making for, in the words of Ben Smith "the maximum Newt hate a newspaper can fit into a single page." Well, in Tuesday's paper, the Post has done it again!
Bret Stephens on the GOP candidates, Joe Nocera on the NCAA, George Will on Romney and Gingrich, Roger Cohen on Sarkozy, and Ron Klain on Iowa's voting dysfunction.
Sen. Rand Paul spoke to The Daily Caller after his very public claim that he was detained by the Transportation Security Authority in Nashville en route to a speech in Washington, saying "If you’re told you can’t leave, does that count as detention?"
This rejected cover image for Bloomberg Businessweek showing a bloodied and beaten Mitt Romney is making the rounds, reports BuzzFeed, and, boy, does it tell the story of Romney's week in cringe-inducing detail.
Senator John Kerry apparently showed up to an event at the White House honoring the Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins Monday in costume. Ouch!
Whoops. It looks like Sen. Chuck Grassley's account was hacked by an opponent of the anti-piracy laws SOPA and PIPA Monday afternoon.
Peter Beinart on Iraq and Iran, L. Gordon Crovitz on regulating the web, Bill Keller on bombing Iran, James Surowiecki on private equity, and Juliette Kayyem on Islam and Republicans.
The U.S. is preparing to shut down its embassy in Syria and evacuate its personnel by the end of the month, reports The Washington Post.
An anonymous official in Pakistan said the country may allow U.S. military trainers back into the country this spring, but won't ever allow drones to operate there again, reports Fox News.
People tended to react with amazement at Thursday's now-viral footage of President Obama singing a few bars of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," but our painstaking research reveals that breaking into song is actually something of an ace-in-the-hole move for the president.
Ariel Levy on Gingrich's debate, Nicholas Burns on Iran, Jonathan Alter on the State of the Union, David Brooks on the Romneys, and Carlo Rotella on talking heads.
After teasing that he would make an "unconventional endorsement" Thursday, Herman Cain followed through, announcing that he endorses "We the People" for president.
FIFA's next World Cup is slated to take place in Brazil, which doesn't allow alcohol sales at sporting events, but FIFA's commissioner made clear Thursday that little things like "laws" won't stand in the way of soccer fans and their brew.
A new report found that a third of teenage moms surveyed didn't use protection because, for one reason or another, they didn't think they could get pregnant.
Joe Karaganis on web piracy, Joshua Green on food stamps, Nicholas Kristof on banking, Alan Blinder on the deficit, and George Will on police overreach
Mitt Romney keeps millions of dollars in funds based in the Cayman Islands, a notorious tax shelter, reports ABC News, and while they don't think he's ducking U.S. taxes, the story is another reminder than the guy is very rich.
The internet is abuzz with confusion at the news that Rob Lowe, known in some circles for his acting, tweeted that he believes Peyton Manning will retire from the NFL after this season.
Ezra Klein on Romney's taxes, Jamie Stiehm on Showtime's Homeland, Scot Lehigh on young voters, William Pesek on Myanmar, and Arthur Herman on military cuts.
Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang, who started the company 17 years ago, announced Tuesday he is retiring from the board and from all his other positions.
In a live chat Tuesday, Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan says he's okay with the controversial headline Newsweek editors put on his cover story critique of President Obama's critics.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's opponents will file nearly twice as many signatures as they needed Tuesday in support of a recall election, making it nearly impossible for Walker to avoid an early vote on his term.
Widely panned for rehashing the old slur about women comedians not being funny, David Letterman's comedy booker Eddie Brill is now being replaced, Mirth Magazine reported Tuesday.
John Cassidy on the debate, Joe Nocera on bank regulations, Bret Stephens on Europe, Michael Gerson on global warming, and David Brooks on campaigns.
Discovered: La Niña weather patterns could cause pandemics, when men outnumber women they tend to spend more, and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle gets an update.
Newsbeast Editor Tina Brown rightly tweeted this morning that "Andrew Sullivan has lit up the web," with his Newsweek cover story, "Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?" But an ad hominem cover line is better for creating heat than light.
Welcome to the Smart Set. Every morning we bring you the gossip coverage, filtered. Today: The Golden Globes happened and many celebrities did many things in their aftermath. Elsewhere, Sean Penn was named an ambassador at large to Haiti.
Stephen Tuck on Martin Luther King Jr., James Fallows on Jon Huntsman, James Carroll on Catholics and the culture war, Ricardo Caballero and Francesco Giavazzi on Italy, and Fred Hiatt on the weak Republican field.
A controversially selected quote from Martin Luther King Jr. that appears in the recently unveiled memorial on the National Mall is getting an edit, proving that just because something is physically etched in stone doesn't mean it's figuratively so.
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