On April 23rd, a group of multiracial students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rallied against what they describe as the school’s “white supremacist history.” They are urging fellow students to sign a petition demanding the school
Canadian Ali Rizvi is a lot of things. He’s a physician in Canada. He’s a musician. He has a thought-provoking and entertaining Twitter feed. And he’s a blossoming writer, working on a book called The Atheist Muslim. In a column posted Monday by the Huffington
Stephen Sutton, the cancer-fighting, fundraising teenager who just last week sent a final ‘signing off’ message as his own health deteriorated has revealed yet another bizarre twist in his tale of heroism, publicity, and fundraising. The 19-year-old who is suffering
As the news of the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II streamed across the world Saturday morning bringing joy to Catholics everywhere, Huffington Post found that news of “Instagram Feuds,” the fact that “Miley Loves Pancakes,” the
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has signed into law a measure that treats abortion clinics just like other medical facilities in the state, making them subject to the same health and safety inspection standards, including spontaneous inspections. The Women’s Health
In 2007, New Media visionary and this company’s namesake Andrew Breitbart launched Breitbart.tv, one of the first components of what is now Breitbart News. Back when Breitbart launched the video-centric site, web video was a relatively new concept. It did,
Though the Republican National Committee has touted its progress in technological advances with analytics and micro-targeting tools after getting trounced by Democrats in 2012, its state-of-the-art tool to target and find voters is not yet operational and may not be
Easter Sunday 2014 coincides with the 20th of April–otherwise known as 4/20 Day, for 420, a number that has come to symbolize marijuana smoking for the pot subculture. Legends abound as to the origins of the symbol, but Ryan Grim
A group of multiracial students calling themselves The Committee wants Washington and Lee University (W&L) to free “students of color… from the psychological shackles that currently exist.” On April 17th Breitbart News reported The Committee was demanding W&L “acknowledge” General Robert E. Lee’s
It is a month into spring, and large parts of the Great Lakes are still frozen over from the winter that refuses to die. This all has The Huffington Post fretting about ducks and shipping lanes, but, uncharacteristically, not global
Scientists believe they have discovered a near-unprecedented phenomenon – rarer, more elusive and mysterious than even the God Particle: an article in The Huffington Post on the subject of the environment and climate change which doesn’t once mention ‘man-made global
A Thursday Huffington Post article highlighting Obamacare victims is causing quite a stir on the left. The piece, titled “How Obamacare Leaves Some People Without Doctors,” breaks from the Huffington Post’s usual embrace of Obamacare and features the voices of
Only 11 days before she abruptly resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius claimed she was not going anywhere and was in for the long haul. Speaking to the Huffington Post on March 31, Sebelius noted how
In the rural town of Ratcliffe, Texas, a couple believes they caught a mythical chupacabra. According to numerous reports, Bubba Stock captured the creature on Sunday evening. The creature was eating corn in a tree at the time. Bubba’s wife, Jackie Stock,
The Wendy Davis campaign took great pains to paint Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s education policies as “hostile to Texas values” by using an out-of-context footnote from a high-profile policy analyst. In a fundraising email sent to supporters on April
Campaigning to be Texas’ next governor, State Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) trekked to west Texas where–according to a local television station–she was met by an “almost empty room” and the sound of “crickets.” KMID reporter Lauren Tropea told her
While her campaign has been mostly silent on issues regarding the state’s lucrative oil and gas business, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis’ legislative record shows her taking positions outside the Texas mainstream. Davis voted against legislation in 2011 that sought
Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, former Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-PA), is under fire for reportedly enriching herself from her taxpayer-funded charity-years after she left Congress. Margolies, who is attempting to regain her PA-13 seat and is the frontrunner in the May 20
Huffington Post editor Willow Bay was named director of the University of Southern California’s journalism school on Wednesday. Starting in June, Bay will take over the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, overseeing programs dedicated to reporting and public relations. The former
As Obamacare turned four years old Sunday, two trends have grown increasingly apparent for the law’s boosters: Texas’ uninsured are not dashing for “Affordable Care” and the Texas economy is not imploding as a result. There remains cause for celebration,
On Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed Arianna Huffington about her new book, “Thrive.” O’Reilly, however, also offered some advice to Huffington pertaining to her website, the Huffington Post. Partial transcript as follows:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign just could not get the simplest of ads right on Tuesday. The campaign embarrassingly put out a web ad that mistook players from Duke’s 2010 championship team for Kentucky players three days before
Albert Einstein once quipped: “If the facts don’t fit your theory, change the facts.” Chris Rodda’s Huffington Post article from March 7, 2014, “Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford Spreads ‘Fear and Misinformation’ at Air Force Academy Leadership Symposium,” devoted 4,000 words
Gene Sperling, a former top economic advisor to President Obama, told the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein that one of his “most painful moments” while working in the White House was the technical debacle that was the launch of the ObamaCare
The biggest Obamacare story last week was belated attention given to a little noticed hardship exemption that seems broad enough to allow almost anyone to claim exemption from the law’s individual mandate. Rather than report on the exemption itself and
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) believes the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should no longer protect the Washington Redskins’ trademark because the nickname is derogatory. “We all respect freedom of speech, but the trademark office has rejected names which are
Another liberal musician took offense after her song was associated with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. When Palin exited CPAC’s stage last Saturday to Sia’s Titanium, the Tea Party favorite ticked off the artist, who, according to the liberal Huffington Post, “is
Leave the audience wanting more remains a basic rule of show business. Like running backs Robert Smith, Barry Sanders, and Jim Brown before him, Rashard Mendenhall retires from football still hearing cheers. But he doesn’t want you to call him
An academic study has accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of having an anti-Christian bias in its reporting on hate groups in America. Once considered the “gold standard” in reporting on violent anti-government or racist groups in America, the
Having just published a column in which I called the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference “the gayest CPAC ever,” I was surprised to read a piece by Amanda Terkel at the Huffington Post claiming that gay rights were “missing” at
Actor Isaiah Washington is coming back to ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy for a special episode after a seven-plus year absence for using an anti-gay slur on set. The long-running show will welcome Washington’s character to help wrap up a character arc
On March 6th the Lone Oak First Baptist Church of Paducah, Kentucky, is hosting “faith and firearms,” which includes a steak dinner and “a chance to win a gun.” The goal is to attract young “unchurched men” who “are passionate
A South Dakota state House committee has rejected a measure that would have banned the procedure of dismembering and decapitating babies during abortions. As Christian News reports, H.B. 1241 was struck down by a vote of eleven to one. Even
On Sunday’s “Reliable Sources” on CNN, host Brian Stelter moderated discussion with physicist Michio Kaku and Huffington Post Media editor Jack Mirkinson over whether or not it is warranted to give both sides on the so-called anthropogenic global warming issue.
When the world needs a rest from the shocking images of Kiev, it has stopped and stared in awe at the violence of Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela and the arrest of political prisoner Leopoldo López. But not everyone sees
Charles Durning made famous, the Texas Governor’s little side-step dance in the Academy Award winning film “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” by quickly shifting positions and dodging questions. With Sen. Wendy Davis’ attempts to side-step to the right in recent
Editorial Director of the Huffington Post Howard Fineman on MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” who discussed one of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s “Citizen Untied” ruling being moving the base of power out of Washington D.C….
Wild rabbits swarm a tourist on the Japanese Island of Okunoshima, where they were originally brought to the island to be used to test mustard gas… (h/t Huffington Post via Reddit)
On Valentines Day Friday, two lesbian couples may have become the first legal same-sex couples in the state of Texas. Even though same-sex marriage is illegal in Texas, they took advantage of a loophole that allows transgendered Texans to legally
