Calling All Inanimate Objects: Rick Perry Will Now Take Your Questions
Rick Perry perhaps jokingly called on a mannequin with a raised hand while taking questions at a South Carolina campaign stop, and a meme is ready to be born.
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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.
Rick Perry perhaps jokingly called on a mannequin with a raised hand while taking questions at a South Carolina campaign stop, and a meme is ready to be born.
Proving that politicians attempting to speak a foreign language will never not be funny, a new Twitter account parodying Mitt Romney's French skills follows up on Newt Gingrich's bizarrely off-topic attack ad on his Francophone rival.
Charles Krauthammer on Ron Paul, Su Chi on Taiwan's future, Jonathan Alter on William Daley, Peggy Noonan on South Carolina, and Michael Kinsley on Romney's health care record.
Laura Bush revealed Wednesday that she and her husband George W. Bush wanted the president's brother, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush, to run for president in 2012.
Ezra Klein on presidents and jobs, Nicholas Kristof on teacher quality, Conor Friedersdorf on the hunt for conservative alternatives, Elliott Abrams on the Middle East, and Joan Vennochi on Scott Brown.
Before the holidays New York Times columnist Gail Collins defiantly noted that she wouldn't stop mentioning the time Romney made his dog ride to Canada on the roof of the family car no matter what her critics said, but since then we fear "crate-gate" has gone and jumped the shark.
Though it appears Rick Perry doesn't meet any of CNN's criteria, the network says Gov. Rick Perry will be allowed to participate in next week's debate, because, apparently, Perry actually wants to submit himself to more debates.
The U.S. Marine Corps said it's investigating a horrible video that shows Marines urinating on dead bodies.
President Obama spoke today after meeting with business leaders to discuss "insourcing," the administration's new buzzword for bringing jobs to America.
Jonathan Chait on Romney's win, Robert Kelley on Iran's weapons, Dana Milbank on reporters' secrets, Jonathan Hansen on Guantánamo, and Major Garrett on Ron Paul
Indonesia's government briefly issued a tsunami warning after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake near the island of Sumatra, but it appears there was no significant damage.
Evan Osnos on Bill Daley, Joe Nocera on BP, Ron Klain on Congress, Alfred Blumstein and Kiminori Nakamura on hiring and criminal records, and Jonah Goldberg on Mitt Romney.
Fans will rejoice to hear that the much-delayed fifth season of AMC's Mad Men will finally debut on March 25, 2012, according to its star Jon Hamm.
Jay-Z just confirmed the birth of his instantly famous child Ivy Blue Carter, born to his wife Beyonce this weekend, in the best way he knows how: a song.
Todd Palin, husband of Sarah Palin, has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, he told ABC News Monday, prompting some political watchers to, well, snicker.
Bill Keller on Vice President Clinton, L. Gordon Crovitz on internet regulation, James Surowiecki on volatile markets, Jon Sununu on Romney's steady campaign, and William Cohan on Wall Street cartels.
Michelle Obama had some very serious disagreements with her husband's staff, and particularly his first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, according to a forthcoming book from New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor called The Obamas, excerpted by The Times on Friday.
NBC's Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt offered woebegone fans of NBC's Community a hint of hope, saying the show "is coming back, " in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Michael O'Hanlon on one-war capability, Peggy Noonan on Romney's attackers, Laurence Tribe on recess appointments, Paul Krugman on Romney's job creation, and Virginia Postrel on liberal arts majors.
A crowd of mostly college-aged students at a New Hampshire town hall booed Rick Santorum when he compared gay marriage to polygamy.
A 36-year-old Denver woman has been charged with causing significant damage to a $30 million Clyfford Stil painting and the Twitterverse is alight with the news, mostly because of her method for causing said damage.
Spinning Hat has created sort-of-clever-sort-of-horrible shower curtain design that resembles a Facebook profile, complete with a hole where the profile picture goes so you can smile out at all those people sharing the bathroom with you while you shower.
Chevrolet will announce Thursday that it wants owners of its battery-powered Volt model to return their cars to a dealer to have the battery pack "strengthened" after crash tests caused the batteries to catch fire.
To criticize President Obama, Mitt Romney has taken up a seemingly odd application of one of the Democrats' favorite attacks on George W. Bush.
Four economists on finding consensus, Vinton Cerf on the right to the internet, Fareed Zakaria on Iran, Doyle McManus on the Tea Party, and John Steele Gordon on the history of negative campaigning.
The Atlantic's James Warren reminds us Richard Cordray, whom was just appointed as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, won Jeopardy! five times in 1987, which is not at all what Bloomberg meant by "Obama Nominees in Jeopardy After Cordray Appointment."
President Obama announced he will use recess appointments to avoid Senate confirmation on three picks for the National Labor Relations Board, avoiding Republican blocks to his nominations.
Mitt Romney hosted a rally in New Hampshire to debut the newest get on his list of endorsements:John McCain
Jay Cost on Iowa, Richard Epstein on rent control, Jeff Jacoby on Congressional pay, Peter Robinson on presidential public speaking, and John Tirman on casualties of war.
Occupy Wall Street protesters have ended their day of marching against the National Defense Authorization Act at Grand Central station in New York City, where, according to one reporter, police began making arrests even before their scheduled 5 p.m. "action."
Zuccotti Park is once again open to the public, days after police closed it on New Years Eve in response to an Occupy Wall Street demonstration there, so feel free to head downtown because, hey, it's a balmy 24 degrees in New York City right now.
Rick Santorum's nephew, 19-year-old University of Pittsburgh student John Garver, wrote an op-ed in the Daily Caller today urging readers to vote for, who else, Ron Paul.
New York police are questioning one man in the New Year's Day firebombing attacks in Queens, but they've also released a sketch of their suspect and a video of someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a house, just in case the public happens to know something they don't.
Jeffrey Goldberg on the TSA, George Packer on political journalism, Matthew Kaminski on Middle East democracy, Roger Cohen on employee burnout, and Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum.
A delightful new Tumblr has paired real-life libertarian Ron Paul with fictional libertarian Ron Swanson from NBC's Parks and Recreation
The LAPD arrested a man they suspect helped set fire to at least 55 cars in the Los Angeles area in the past three days, and since then no new arsons have been reported, the police say.
Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it.
A page from the Francis Ford Coppola's copy of the novel The Godfather, filled with his notes for filming, has been making its way round the internet, and it provides some awesome insight into the way the director draws on his source material.
Benjamin Colton Barnes, the "person of interest" suspected of shooting a Mount Rainier park ranger Sunday, was found dead "in a ditch," reports King 5 News.
As Iowa's Republicans gear up for tomorrow's caucuses, party officials are making tense plans to deal with potential protesters from the Occupy movement.
John Sununu on primaries, Yu Hua on Chinese grievances, Robert Samuelson on the economy and 2012, Kevin Sabet on drug policy, and Nicholas Lemann on Ron Paul.
Go Daddy's CEO has confirmed that the internet did in fact follow through on its promise to stop using the popular domain hosting site, moving their domains elsewhere after the company's initial support for the Stop Online Piracy Act
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other survivors plan to gather for a ceremony in Tuscon on January 8, the anniversary of a shooting that severely injured Giffords and killed six.
CNN announced some details on its two upcoming morning news shows, which we learn will be called Early Start and Starting Point.
It's that time of year when the internet pours forth with top 10 rankings on everything from movies to moments to celebrity babies-to-be, and culture writer Dan Kois has written in the New York Times Magazine a humorous but earnest defense of the "top 10 list" trope. He's done it, though -- of course -- in the form of a top 10 list.
Gail Collins on Iowa, Komail Aijazuddin on Pakistan, George Will on bone marrow transplants, Adam Davidson on U.S competitiveness, and Philip Gourevitch on Syria.
A new CNN poll shows Newt Gingrich's support in Iowa down by 19 percentage points with Rick Santorum pulling into third with 16 percent, because, well, that's just how this Republican campaign season works, we suppose
South Carolina, famously hot tempered state that spurred on the Civil War, is once again mired in the important political questions of our time: Is it a great day in South Carolina today?
There's a great scene from the deposition of artist Richard Prince as described in Randy Kennedy's New York Times story today that shows that sometimes art and law don't do so well together.
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