HUFFINGTON POST, April 29, 2012 — Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine political and policy partnership. Both sides have a strong incentive in making th ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2012 at 11:37AM
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How could I throw away a miracle?
How could I face another day?
It's all of my doing, I made a choice
And today, I pay
My heart is full of pain
How could you understand, the way I feel?
How could you relate to so much pain?
Seems as t ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 11:00PM
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THINK PROGRESS, April 27, 2012 -- If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your parents.
At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio today, Mitt Ro ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 10:53AM
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TALKING POINTS MEMO, April 27, 2012 -- Now that the general election is in full swing, the only voting bloc that matters — other than stay-at-home moms, social conservative Hispanic dads and evangelical NASCAR uncles — is young people, Stephen Co ...
Posted Saturday, April 28th 2012 at 10:47AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 25, 2012 -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.
The even ...
Posted Thursday, April 26th 2012 at 3:25PM
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NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - One World Trade Center, being built at the site of the fallen twin towers, could surpass the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York as soon as next week, an official said on Tuesday.
The iconic Emp ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 2:06PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 24, 2012 -- President Barack Obama framed the 2012 election in some of the starkest terms to date in an interview published Wednesday by Rolling Stone.
Obama said that in this election there "will be as sharp a contrast betw ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 12:41PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 24, 2012 -- "The Revisionaries," a documentary about textbook standard-setting in Texas, recently debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, and key subject Don McLeroy talked to Stephen Colbert Monday about the state's textbook deb ...
Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2012 at 12:39PM
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By DAVID SIROTA, ALTERNET, April 23, 2012 -- Here's a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: "Christians 'More Likely to Be Leftwing' And Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality." Sounds too hard to believe, right? We ...
Posted Monday, April 23rd 2012 at 12:22PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 20, 2012 -- Colbert came out swinging in his interview with Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, accusing the two of waging class warfare with their new book, The Rich and The Rest Of Us.
West & Smiley took Colbert's mock outrage i ...
Posted Sunday, April 22nd 2012 at 8:19PM
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WHEN YOU BELIEVE
Artist: Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
Many nights we prayed
With no proof anyone could hear
In our hearts a hopeful a song
We barely understood;
Now we are not afraid
Although we know there’s much to fear
We were mov ...
Posted Sunday, April 22nd 2012 at 6:59PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 19, 2012 -- President Barack Obama sat Wednesday for a moment inside the Montgomery, Ala., city bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. The bus is currently housed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Ob ...
Posted Thursday, April 19th 2012 at 7:35PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 13, 2012 -- Music enthusiasts in the City of Brotherly Love are looking to rekindle a love supreme for the deteriorating John Coltrane House, a preservation effort that mirrors a broader mission to reclaim and promote Philadelp ...
Posted Monday, April 16th 2012 at 11:15PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 15, 2012 -- — LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball.
And about what ...
Posted Sunday, April 15th 2012 at 11:17PM
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Whitney Houston: HOLD ON, HELP IS ON THE WAY
When you're down and in despair
Don't be uneasy because he'll be there
Say don't you worry, no don't you fret
The Lord has never, never failed you yet
So hold on, help is on the way ...
Posted Sunday, April 15th 2012 at 10:59PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 13, 2012 -- After weeks of investigation, protests and media speculation, George Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin on Thursday. If the case wasn't already well-publicized, it's ab ...
Posted Friday, April 13th 2012 at 11:54AM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 13, 2012 -- The mayor of New Jersey's largest city says he's a neighbor, not a superhero, a day after rescuing a woman from a burning house.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker says he didn't feel brave, but did feel terrified as he da ...
Posted Friday, April 13th 2012 at 11:45AM
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TALKING POITNS MEMO, April 12, 2012 -- The last time Michelle Obama stopped by The Colbert Report, she was potentially the next First Lady of the United States. Four years later, she is the first lady. “That’s called the Colbert bump,” Stephen ...
Posted Thursday, April 12th 2012 at 10:46PM
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HUFFINGTON POST, April 12, 2012 -- When Magic Johnson held a press conference announcing that he was HIV-positive in 1991, popular perception was that this was essentially a death sentence. HIV leads to AIDS and there's simply no coming back from tha ...
Posted Thursday, April 12th 2012 at 10:36PM
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by Adam Winkler, HUFFINGTON POST, April 11, 2012 -- The news that Florida prosecutors are bringing charges against George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin raises two questions: Will Zimmerman be convicted? And what role will Florida's "Stand ...
Posted Thursday, April 12th 2012 at 9:31AM
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NEW YORK CITY, April 8, 2012 -- An epic brawl took place at 3 p.m. this Saturday near the New York University campus in Manhattan: luckily no one got hurt.
For three hours, New York City's 7th annual pillow fight turned Manhattan's Washington Squ ...
Posted Monday, April 9th 2012 at 2:12PM
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JOY by Whitney Houston
Joy, joy, God's great joy
Joy, joy, down in my soul
Sweet beautiful soul saving joy
Oh joy, joy in my soul
Listen to the music
The sound of the angels
Come and see the child
Who can make you whole
Lying in a mang ...
Posted Sunday, April 8th 2012 at 12:52PM
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By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, HUFFINGTON POST, April 7, 2012 -- My dear friend Kathryn Milofsky arranged for me to speak with Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and her attorney Benjamin Crump, today just before Passover. I was grateful to speak to ...
Posted Sunday, April 8th 2012 at 12:19PM
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By Charles M. Blow, NEW YORK TIMES, April 7, 2012 -- The case of Trayvon Martin is producing another O.J. Simpson moment for America.
At least that’s the view of the people at Gallup who released a poll on Thursday detailing divergent racial vie ...
Posted Saturday, April 7th 2012 at 11:06PM
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