Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post
October 19, 2009
How About a Little Coverage of the Millions of At-Risk Kids Not Trapped in a Balloon (or Hiding in the Attic)?
No matter what happens in the unfolding legal saga of the Heene family, the most appropriate response to the whole matter was that of Falcon Heene. He vomited. Twice. On [...]

Rep. John Conyers

Congressman from Michigan
Posted: August 20, 2009 02:29 PM

The Huffington Post

Karl Rove, Rupert Murdoch and Media Bias

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove says that I — and others — owe him an apology for allegations that have been made about him during the course of the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into [...]

…or, never try to teach a pig to sing.  It only frustrates the teacher, and it annoys the pig.

August 1, 2009
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Anger Has Its Place
By BOB HERBERT
Cambridge, Mass.
No more than five or six minutes elapsed from the time the police were alerted to the possibility of a break-in at a home in a [...]

Sam Stein
stein@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting

New Poll: Less Than Half Of Republicans Believe Obama Was Born In U.S.
Less than half of Republicans believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America, a new public opinion poll finds.
Only 42 percent of Republican respondents in a Research 2000 survey, [...]

…Unfortunately, as long as Fox News remains the source to which most Americans turn for information (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/may-ratings-mayhem-fox-ne_n_210500.html), it would appear that we have neither an informed nor an intelligent citizenry.  The following three commentaries should be taken seriously.  In a previous entry I predicted that conservatism and the Republican Party would re-emerge in a much [...]

We followed some of our traditional Christmas practices this year, and we deviated in rather significant ways, otherwise. Departures from tradition began early…. no tree!! Why have a tree when neither child is living at home nor will be here for Christmas morning, and we had decided to go be with family elsewhere on Christmas [...]

My daughter, who is serving a one-year internship/Americorps assignment at Camphill Village, has been a gardener/farmer at the village in addition to her duties assisting and guiding the villagers to whom she has been assigned. With the ending of summer and the coming of fall, activity in the garden has declined to the point that [...]

October 31, 2006: The shadows are getting long, extending streaks and smudges of gray on otherwise brightly lit streets and lawns. Shafts and blades of oblique sunlight pierce the air between the trees. The sky is a brilliant, crisp, blue medium, without a cloud to be seen, but this two o’clock October mid-day has a [...]

guess I was about to discover what an adjustment is like. He started with my SI joint, pushing down forcefully on my lower back and hips. As he does, a portion of the table underneath collapses in a controlled manner, with a clank. He raises the table and does it again, and again. I asked [...]

So, maybe I will see a Chiropractor. Of course, it’s Friday. The Chiropractor’s office is only open Monday through Thursday. Next Tuesday will be the 4th of July, and the office will be closed Monday and Tuesday. The earliest I can even call to get an appointment is Wednesday July 5th. I guess I can [...]