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.
Warren Buffett has announced to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that he got diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer, but that "my condition is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way."
Herein is our Reader's Digest version of Chris Christie's very winding thoughts on becoming Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee as told to reporters Tuesday: He's not interested, unless he is.
Ramesh Ponnuru on Romney's focus on gender, Leonard Burman on the Buffett Rule, Marc Thiessen on Romney's gaffes, Bret Stephens on Bo Xilai's scandal, and Michael Tomasky on Obama's swagger.
The New Yorker senior editor and Close Read blogger begins her daily media consumption with a crucial question: Sports Center or Morning Joe?
G.S.A. regional commissioner Jeffrey Neely had a rough Monday as he very publicly invoked his 5th Amendment rights during a Congressional hearing into his agency's spending scandal, and photos of him and his wife doing all that aforementioned spending leaked around the internet, thanks to ABC New's Jake Tapper.
For the first time in 16 years, it appears ABC's Good Morning America may have finally beaten NBC's The Today Show in weekly ratings, but it wasn't the during the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin death-match. The New York Times's Brian Stelter credits the inimitable Sherri Shepherd, a member of The View's day-time debating panel.
Jackson Diehl on Obama's delay tactics, Mohamed Keita on African journalism, Juliette Kayyem on Indonesia's tsunami prep, L. Gordon Crovitz on journalism on the internet, and Adam Gopnik on Mad Men nostalgia
Politico's Dylan Byers has maybe finally answered the question on many regular New Republic readers' minds as soon as they heard that Facebook's Chris Hughes had purchased the political biweekly from Marty Peretz: Would Peretz keep blogging there?
This is as official as it's probably going to get with these two: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, or Brangelina if you must, will be gettin' hitched, though their publicist says there's no hard date, just "a promise for the future."
Dominic Basulto has an interesting piece in The Washington Post arguing that for politicians in the internet era, a viral meme is the new soundbite.
Michelle Goldberg on Romney and women, Paul Krugman on Chris Christie, Peggy Noonan on the GOP primaries, Dominic Holden on legalization's surprising opponents, and Michael Kinsley on the language of class warfare.
We humbly beg to differ with Newsweek's Paul Begala whose column in this week's issue begins, "You heard it here first: Mitt Romney is going to select Rob Portman, the junior senator from Ohio, to be his running mate." Maybe so, but we've heard it before.
People are abuzz about the New York Times Magazine profile of Robert Caro, biographer of Lyndon Johnson, which somehow makes exciting the details of the exhaustive research Caro undertook to better understand his subject through the five volume, decades-long project.
Democratic pundit and strategist Hilary Rosen has issued a statement apologizing to Ann Romney for saying Mrs. Romney "never worked a day in her life" on CNN Wednesday, but, political strategist that she is, she's not exactly ceding all her points.
Gary Younge on George Zimmerman's trial, Matt Miller on tax policy deceptions, George Will on drug policy, Karl Meyer on the Toulouse killings, and Fred Barnes on Romney's election strategy
For your daily dose of reportorial overreach: The Washington Free Beacon has an article criticizing an Obama campaign staffer for blasting Mitt Romney's record on women's issues while herself ... following woman-beaters on Twitter. Scandal!
In a blazing fire of glory, the two guys behind the epically viral "Texts from Hillary Clinton" blog have announced that they're done ignoring their day jobs and will cease posting to the site, but that doesn't mean you can't carry on the snarky flame.
At last, the Fox News mole has outed himself in a post on Gawker's web site. His name is Joe Muto and he is (or was) an associate producer at The O'Reilly Factor.
Dana Milbank on Rick Santorum, Jonathan Fenby on Bo Xilai, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Facebook, Clarence Page on Mitt Romney, and Margaret Carlson on the GSA conference.
"Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon." [Matt Groening interview in Smithsonian Magazine.]
Speaking from Gettysburg, Tuesday, Rick Santorum announced he will suspend his campaign for president, adding "we are going to continue to fight."
The F.B.I. has finally filled the vacancy on their Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list created by Navy SEALS who killed Osama bin Laden last May, and the unlucky winner is Eric Justin Toth, a 30-year-old alleged child pornographer.
Paul Moreno on Obama and the courts, David Brooks on America's two economies, John Stossel on the TSA, David Cay Johnston on tax fraud, and Joanna Weiss on 'Texts from Hillary Clinton'
In your frivolous but fun future attack-ad footage of the day: As part of Monday's White House Easter Egg Hunt, President Obama took several three-pointer shots using a basketball emblazoned with his face, and he missed all of them.
Peter Funt on TV interviews, Bill Schneider on Rick Santorum, Noah Feldman on strip searches and the Supreme Court, James Surowiecki on medical tourism, and Robert Samuelson on Social Security
David Simon, creator of The Wire, has sort of apologized for his Thursday New York Times interview in which he seemingly told Wire fans all the improper ways to watch or pay homage to his show.
New York's Jonathan Chait has a smart piece Friday pointing out recent attempts to create scandal from both the left and the right as good examples of "pseudo-outrage" or "outrage that nobody in the political industry actually feels."
Politico has posted Current TV's legal defense against Keith Olbermann's lawsuit in the wake of his firing, and, in keeping with their public statement from Thursday, they are denying all his allegations.
Tim Tebow, he of the public prayer and new understudy to GQ cover model Mark Sanchez, will be delivering a sermon in Georgetown, Texas at Celebration Church this Easter Sunday, and the church is setting up bleachers for expected crowds of 30,000 people.
Walter Shapiro on Santorum's campaign, Jonathan Alter on Romney's liabilities, Khalil Gibran Muhammed on the specter of black-on-black violence, Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Supreme Court comments, and Michael Kinsley on bizarre lobbying campaigns.
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, charged with investigating the $822,751 team-building conference the General Services Agency held in Las Vegas in 2010, has posted a pretty embarrassing video made during conference to his YouTube page, and, oof, it definitely doesn't make them look great.
As Newt Gingrich continues to pledge he'll stay in the race, reporters and Republicans warn that he risks "tarnishing his legacy." But whence began this fear that a prolonged but futile fight for the nomination would destroy one's historical record for posterity?
It's odd to see Mitt Romney weighing in on the debate surrounding the all-male Augusta National club, home of the Master's Tournament in golf, but he clearly stated Thursday that the club should admit women.
The Department of Justice released a memo written at the request of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the federal courts' right to overturn Congressional laws in the wake of Obama's much politicized comments on the topic that reads like Attorney General Eric Holder had to write an A.P. U.S. History paper.
Gail Collins on the G.S.A. conference scandal, Joshua Green on un-cutting the deficit, Karl Rove on Santorum's odds, Dana Milbank on Romney and the press, Andrea Louise Campbell on insuring pre-existing conditions.
Just imagine the audacity it took for The New York Times' Kevin Roose to propose a story in which he lives like a billionaire for a single day. Then imagine his joy when editors actually approved the story.
Firefighters are currently fighting a blaze at the iconic Macy's in Herald Square after reports of a fire in the basement Wednesday afternoon. The enormous store is a landmark, most notably featured in the film Miracle on 34th Street, so we certainly hope there's no lasting damage.
Michael Arrington, founder of of the popular tech blog TechCrunch is back and guest blogging for the site despite an epic, public flame war with the blog's corporate owners at AOL that ended with his exit.
Google finally divulged details of its much-rumored project to design eye-wear that augments reality with a video featuring their hopes for "project glass," and the results are as impressive as you'd expect, but also a little disconcertingly "man-meets-machine."
Amy Davidson on Obama's opponents, Mark Bittman on pink slime, Peter Orszag on food stamps, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on high-speed trading, and Anna Schiffrin on measuring happiness.
Fresh from his trip to the bottom of the ocean, James Cameron gets The New York Times Magazine Q&A treatment this week, and when reaching for metaphors he, unsurprisingly, sounds pretty nautical.
Two very scary looking tornadoes have touched down in Dallas county Tuesday afternoon, and they've already caused some damage, with North Texas under tornado watch until at least 8 p.m.
So far, President Obama has been known to address his Republican rivals mostly by implication. Not so at Tuesday's Associated Press luncheon, where he spoke directly about Rep. Paul Ryan and his likely rival Mitt Romney.
Today in books and publishing: 50 Shades of Grey gets a parody spin-off, fan fiction gets a defense, and Jodi Picoult says the darndest things.
Joe Nocera on hating the banks, James Feldman on Solicitor General Verrilli, Richard Clarke on cybersecurity, Bret Stephens on Egypt's presidential candidates, and Adam Cohen on cruel and unusual prison food.
TechCrunch confirmed reports Monday that Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra is leaving the social networking site, as his partner, Ben Silbermann, long the more public of the two, takes over as CEO.
Federal Agents raided Oaksterdam University, a for-profit institution that teaches marijuana growing techniques in Oakland, California and advocates for the medical marijuana movement
A new class action lawsuit alleges that BP avoided hiring Asian-American fishermen to help with cleanup efforts in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, bringing fresh attention to the difficulties the Asian-American community faced in the aftermath of the disaster.
The Web has alighted with a quote from Ann Romney that sounded unintentionally, shall we say, PG-13.
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