TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
This final full week of the 2010 campaign delivered its fair share of Halloween-worthy frights. Topping the ghoulish behavior was the pre-debate head-stomp administered to MoveOn activist Lauren Valle by a Rand Paul supporter. Talk about your monstrous mash. The Paul backer, Tim Profitt, then took chutzpah to a whole new level, telling a reporter that Valle actually owed him an apology. Then there was the fear-mongering intent of Sharron Angle's campaign ads showing groups of menacing-looking Latino men streaming across the border -- a gang of Willie Hortons with a Spanish accent. And there was the president telling Jon Stewart he thinks Larry Summers has done "a heck of job" -- and not meaning it in a Brownie kind of way (despite his "pun intended" attempt to walk it back). Now that's scary. Happy Halloween, HuffPosters!
If you run for office, you're pretty much completely exposed. Yet every election, people line up to take the public manhandling. And the simple fact is we need these people -- need them there on the ballot, need some of them as our leaders.
Far from "delaying the inevitable" as some commentators have suggested, a national moratorium on foreclosures would force loan servicers to reevaluate their practices, and clean up the bureaucratic nightmare they now run.
The Harry Reid vs. Sharron Angle race typifies what is dividing Americans this election year. I just hope that voters will ask themselves: Who do you think will actually lend you a hand should things get even worse?
I'm delighted to announce the launch of our newest section, a one-stop shop for the latest news and opinion on what we can do to live healthier lives.
We've been documenting the Roots of the Rally to Restore Sanity, in an effort to demonstrate how, over the course of many years, the Daily Show has made a sincere and sustained effort to encourage a more sane and reasonable discourse.
The idea that the American invasion liberated Iraqis from kidnap, torture, rape and summary execution is shown to be a sick untruth in the Wikileaks documents. Indeed a shocking feature of the leaks is that few Iraqis appeared surprised.
It happens like this. The doctor walks towards me. His face is ashen. He says we have found something. It does not look good.
I have always been interested in the scientific discoveries underlying health advances in developing countries. The benefits of such breakthroughs are substantial, with the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives.
The middle class is voting for people who are killing the middle class; their anger is being played with, and they're being urged to support candidates who will make things worse for them.
Bluefin tuna are some of the biggest and baddest fish in the ocean. But unfortunately, they're also among our top prey these days. Too many of us love to eat them -- particularly as sushi or sashimi.
Most people have at least one area in which they lack willpower. How can you increase your willpower? Here are some techniques, using exercise as an example, that should help.
HuffPost Health is a place for serious and interesting conversation and education around all aspects of personal health and well-being, including treatment, prevention and wellness.
Keith Richards. Right, he's the Rolling Stone you notice when Mick Jagger's not shaking and singing. Whose solution to spilling a bit of his father's ashes was to grab a straw and snort. Whose most recent revelation is about the size of Mick's...
What we see happening in California gives the green movement a reason for continued optimism. We hold the high ground for protecting our bipartisan, pro-jobs, pro-innovation climate laws that are already on the books.
The voting gap among young people who vote and those who do not is not a function of apathy. It is a function of lack of sufficient civic education in our schools, in our media, and in our society.
In the absence of rational arguments, what is the Tea Party left with? Inchoate violence and flailing rage directed at anyone who chooses to observe the nation's problems through the prism of objective reality and facts.
My GOP counterpart has chosen to mislead American voters with baseless talking points and empty rhetoric. With only seven days until Election Day, voters deserve the truth. So I ask: Mr. Steele, what do Republicans really stand for?
Joe Miller's candidacy is in big trouble. A series of gaffes, inconsistencies and controversial statements have come one on top of another, causing a trend that can only be described as a campaign death spiral.
The new electronic voting machines have raised as many questions as they have answered. And they all boil down to the very definition of a democracy: How can the public be sure that each vote counts?
If the government does not hold the fraudulent CEOs responsible, who is supposed to stop the epidemic of elite financial fraud? The Obama administration's answer is the fraudulent CEOs themselves. You can't make this stuff up.
After watching from my front row seat on "Morning Joe" the endless parade of Blagos, Balloon Boys, Snookis, and Salahis, I felt compelled to assemble our new political and pop cultural superheroes in a single book.
Why do so many working class Americans hold such detrimental false assumptions about their place in American society? Why this disconnect between self-interest and voting patterns?
Why are Democratic presidents so much more easily intimidated by the "move to the center" rhetoric after midterm losses than Republican presidents?
Here is my guide to the C Street men up for election.
Republicans are confident they are poised to build a wave as large as the one that swept them into power in 1994. Yet, just as in 1946, the party is poised to regain the majority while still weak, and without a strategy for going forward.
