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.
Amy Davidson on Newt Gingrich, Lenore Skenazy on false trends, Ron Klain on the payroll tax, Dana Milbank on punditry, and Ayad Allawi, Osama al-Nujaifi, Rafe al-Essawi on Iraq.
The U.S. Treasury Department issued a report Tuesday saying they would not term China a "currency manipulator," despite widespread claims that the Chinese government keeps the value of the yuan artificially low
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari gave a speech today on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, to defend democracy, criticize the country's military and courts, and try to regain support amid recent scandals.
The New York Times confirms that it is "re-evaluating our podcast schedule for the coming year," looking to cancel many of them, reports Jim Romenesko.
Today in publishing and literature: The internet has many ways to fill your iPad with free stuff, The Descendents author likes the way Hawaii looks in the film, and the Shire gets its makeover.
William McGurn on Kim Kardashian's taxes, William Patry on copyright law, Charles Lane on crime rates, Jonah Goldberg on the conservative establishment, and Darrell Driver, Jin Pak, and Kyle Jette on military pensions.
The Justice Department blocked a South Carolina law that would require voters present photo I.D., saying it would discriminate against minority voters, weighing in today for the first time on one of several new state laws seeking to combat voter fraud.
Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip was taken to the hospital Friday with chest pains to undergo "cautionary tests," which is never a good sign at age 90.
President Obama spoke, after nearly an hour's delay, about the payroll tax deal before heading to Hawaii for his Christmas vacation.
Nicholas Burns on peace, Frank Mugisha on gay activism in Uganda, Charles Krauthammer on the payroll debacle, Noah Feldman on withdrawal from Iraq, and Dennis Ross on pressuring Iran.
PolitiFact's editor Bill Adair has responded to the flurry his fact-checking operation set off when it named the Democrats' claim that Republicans "voted to end Medicare" its "lie of the year."
House Republicans have reversed course and agreed to pass the payroll tax cut extension for two more months under pressure from the Senate and the White House, reports National Journal, citing "Republican and Democratic sources."
In this year's edition of their annual gag very serious press release, the Department of Transportation has announced today that, as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned, all systems are go for Santa Claus's flight across the world.
Former President George H.W. Bush told the Houston Chronicle today that Mitt Romney is "the best choice for us," adding (rather diplomatically) that he isn't Newt Gingrich's "biggest advocate."
President Barack Obama's brief speech on the payroll tax cut gridlock turned up the heat on House Republicans telling them, "Enough is enough."
George Will on Newt Gingrich, Joshua Green on the payroll tax, Nicholas Kristof on North Korea, Dana Milbank on John Boehner, and Daniel Henninger on Christmas.
Gail Collins's campaign to repeatedly mention Mitt Romney's old family dog Seamus in her regular New York Times column has received a lot of media scrutiny this past week, but Collins will not be deterred.
Gawker's John Cook reports today that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly had him ejected from a book signing, in the continuing saga between Cook and O'Reilly.
Here we are, now solidly into the 21st century, and yet, we still do not have autonomous, friendly robot housekeepers to do all our bidding in the style of Rosie from The Jetsons.
Paul Butler on jury nullification, John Steele Gordon on Christmas, Juliette Kayyem on Iraq, Holman Jenkins on AT&T, and Maureen Dowd on Gingrich's religion.
In a day packed with astronomy news, researchers at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu came out today and declared that earth probably has two moons at any one time.
HBO announced today that it is cancelling three comedies, Hung, How to Make It in America, and Bored to Death, choosing to renew the less viewed Enlightened, and while the news is upsetting each of the shows' dedicated followings, in some cases, it feels like they should have seen it coming.
Madeleine Albright on Vaclav Havel, Jeffrey Goldberg on Wal-Mart, Frank Bruni on the candidates' spouses, Dana Milbank on John Boehner, and Melanie Kirkpatrick on Kim Jong Il.
Barney Frank has never been known for looking put together, but his outfit for his speech on the House floor Monday is attracting a bit of internet attention for being notably ... frightening
Since the March 2011 tsunami devastated Japan, U.S. officials have wondered when the random, and gruesome-sounding, assortment of debris would start washing up on West Coast shores, and now, they have an answer.
A group trying to draft Hillary Clinton to run for president started making pre-recorded "robocalls" to voters on Monday with a pitch that paints a ridiculously optimistic picture of the world in which Clinton won the 2008 election.
A judge has sentenced Brandon McInerney, now age 17, to 21 years in prison for the 2008 killing of his gay classmate, Larry King.
The Sunday's New York Times's experts at observing trendy trends have uncovered an exhausting development for the working world: "sweatworking," they call it.
Michael Hirsh on Kim Jong Il, Edward Glaeser on Chile, Rahm Emanuel on community colleges, John Rosenthal on high-speed rails, and Leon Aron on Putin.
As federal investigations against Carrier IQ ramp up this week, Sprint said today it will be removing the company's software from its phones.
Stanford surprised some today by withdrawing a bid to open a tech campus in New York City.
Matt Miller on Wyden-Ryan, Tom Hayden on the anti-war movement, Kirk Johnson on Iraqi resettlement, Walter Shapiro on presidential races, Kimberley Strassel on Ron Paul
An anonymous Iranian engineer says Iran hacked the GPS system of the U.S. drone plane that landed in their territory this month, and guided it into their territory before letting it land.
ABC News had to deny rumors, potentially started by someone in the White House, that Barbara Walters will be retiring next year, in an affair this afternoon that raises many rather fun questions.
Accused child molester Jerry Sandusky's lawyer suggested this week that his client showered with young boys because may have been teaching them hygiene.
The New York Times sent the New York Police Department an e-mail this week saying they weren't happy about the NYPD's treatment of one of their photographers, and the NYPD has responded, though not to everyone's satisfaction
After the respected Institute of Medicine concluded today that most invasive experiments on chimpanzees aren't neccessary for scientific research, the National Institute of Health said it would significantly cut back on use of the animal in its research.
Joshua Green on Perry's ad, Karl Rove on Republican debates, Brian Greene on the Higgs particle, Ezra Klein on death panels, and David Ignatius on Iraq's prime minister.
McClatchy reports today that the Marines may have publicized a version of the story that won Dakota Meyer a medal of honor this September that doesn't fit what actually happened.
For all that debate over whether Europe's diverse nations should even be united under one fiscal union, here's an eye-popping statistic: Nearly one quarter of European Union citizens have never used the internet.
People in Washington are pretty curious to know just how MF Global (and the rest of the industry it worked in) could lose track of $1.2 billion, but regulators looking into the matter are here to report that they know where the money is, they just aren't telling you.
Writer and editor Malcolm Harris has taken to Gawker to out himself as the man responsible for starting a false rumor this September that Radiohead would be playing a concert at Occupy Wall Street, and he's got some shady excuses for why he did it.
Owen Matthews on Russia's protests, George Will on Newt Gingrich, Paul Sherman on foreigners and free speech, Amy Davidson on 'All-American Muslim', and Nate Jackson on the N.F.L.'s medical advice.
The Federal Communications Commission is bound to get good reviews today after it voted to require cable operators and TV stations to keep TV commercials from being louder than the programs during which they air.
The Federal Open Market Committee announced Tuesday that the economy is improving well enough that it will leave interest rates unchanged and avoid any quantitative easing, so everyone carry on.
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen and aerospace designer Burt Rutan said today they plan to privately build the largest airplane in the world with the hopes that it can serve as a launchpad to project satellites into space at a low cost.
Richard Russo on Amazon's price check promotion, Marc Thiessen on Amnesty International, Jonah Goldberg on 'Newtzilla', Charles Krulak and Joseph Hoar on the defense bill, and Jonathan Macey on insider trading.
In a post about the rules surrounding e-mail access for prisoners, Dealbook reporter Peter Lattman flags a weird auto-reply from Michael Kimelman, a hedge fund trader who got caught up in Raj Rajaratnam's big insider trading scandal
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