John McCain Says Rand Paul Is Helping Democrats Make The Case For Filibuster...
Senator John McCain apologized to Democrats Monday on the Senate floor for efforts by Senator Rand Paul to block the National Defense Authorization Act. McCain said Paul's efforts “lends some credence”...
View ArticleRepublicans Send Fiscal Cliff Counteroffer To The White House
Negotiations are back on. If they were ever actually off. Image by J. Scott Applewhite / AP WASHINGTON — House Republicans put their criticisms of President Barack Obama's fiscal cliff package to paper...
View ArticleDoes This Look Like a Party Serious About Spending Cuts?
As noted on Reason 24/7, several conservatives in the House have been removed from seats on the House Budget and House Financial Services Committees. From The Hill: Reps. ;David Schweikert ;of Arizona...
View ArticleMarket Buzz: US factory data overshadows optimism
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on November 28, 2012.(AFP Photo / Spencer Platt)Russian markets are expected to open lower Tuesday over negative factory data from the US and...
View ArticleMan charged for breaking Iran nuke sanctions
A man from southern Sweden has been charged for attempting to smuggle equipment to Iran which can be used to enrich uranium, in violation of EU sanctions.Sweden summons Israeli envoy over Iran report...
View ArticleKevin Laferriere’s Elevator Wedding Proposal (VIDEO)
Kevin Laferriere joined HuffPost Live Friday to discuss his sensational wedding proposal with host Abby Huntsman. Laferriere videotaped his girlfriend going up an elevator to meet him. The elevator...
View ArticleWhy you should try to join some of the underground hacker forums that are out...
Even if you are considered to be a white hat hacker, you are always still walking a fine line between being a bad guy and a good guy in many people eyes. There are a lot of people out there who believe...
View ArticleHarry Reid Questions GOP’s Rationality On Fiscal Cliff After Disability...
WASHINGTON -- The failure of Republicans to ratify a treaty on disabilities raises questions about their rationality in fiscal cliff negotiations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid argued...
View ArticleOK, Now Harry Reid Is Just Being Mean
Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Majority Leader Harry Reid got downright nasty. He compared Republicans to the New York Jets. For those of you lucky enough to not have had the chance to...
View ArticleLouie Gohmert lone dissenter on ban of the word “lunatic”
Tea Party Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, was the lone dissenter on a House bill to ban the use of the word "lunatic" in federal laws, which Congress passed as a way to update how legislation refers to...
View ArticleWatch live: Graham says goodbye to DeMint
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks on the Senate floor regarding the departure of Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Dec. 6. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news,...
View ArticleCooper Union Occupier: We’re Staying As Long As It Takes (VIDEO)
A group of 12 Cooper Union students and one student journalist from The New School have barricaded themselves in the 8th floor of the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York City's East Village in...
View ArticleSwede’s stolen car hit with parking ticket
A man in northern Sweden whose car was stolen was stunned to find his car again a short distance away - with a parking ticket attached to the window.US healthcare giant buys Sweden's Gambro (5 Dec 12)...
View ArticleMalware called ‘Eurograbber’ steals 36 million Euros
Instagram vulnerable Tumblr Worm MySQL Zero-days New Linux Rootkit Shylock malware Printer Backdoor Subscribe for Quick Updates Malware called 'Eurograbber' steals 36 million Euros Author : Mohit...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Artsy’s Art Basel Bust and the $500,000 Tip That Wasn’t
Basel Bust? Artsy’s invite for its Art Basel party this year--thrown by Chanel--was positively littered with enticing cohosts. “On behalf of Carter Cleveland, Larry Gagosian, Wendi Murdoch, Peter Theil...
View ArticleRepublican Congressman’s Excuse For Not Extending The Middle-Class Tax Cuts
Even though Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) says he agrees the middle-class tax cuts he admits in this video that he won't extend them in order to keep control of the floor out of the hands of the Democrats. …...
View ArticleLegislators Hope To Slip Farm Subsidies And Food Stamps Into Fiscal Cliff Deal
Agriculture Committee chairs from both chambers work out their differences in private. Easy spending cuts and deep ideological differences in Farm Bill talks. Image by Iowa Farm Bureau, Gary Fandel /...
View ArticleLeg-crossing Swedish ambassador angers Iran
Sweden's newly appointed ambassador in Tehran has reportedly upset Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - by crossing his legs during a meeting.Spies in Sweden mostly from China, Russia, Iran (8 Dec...
View ArticleListen to Mitch McConnell’s long silence on gun control
As we wrote earlier, Republicans in Congress have mostly greeted calls for tougher gun laws with radio silence. Now, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has greeted questions about gun control with actual...
View ArticleSenator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii dies of respiratory problems
Democrat Daniel Inouye, the current longest-serving member of the US Senate, died Monday at age 88, his office and a top senator said. “Our friend Daniel Inouye just died,” Senate Majority Leader Harry...
View ArticleGulf Oil Sheen At BP’s Deepwater Horizon Rig Disaster Site Remains A Mystery
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Underwater inspections at the site of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig disaster have failed to identify the source of a persistent sheen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, officials...
View ArticleNeil DeGrasse Tyson Dancing To Michael Jackson (VIDEO)
It's Christmas Eve, and it looks like Santa came early this year to HuffPost Science.Rob Bricken at i09 dug up this video posted to Vimeo earlier this week of Neil DeGrasse Tyson busting some moves on...
View ArticleHarkin blasts fellow Democrats: ‘No deal is better’ than this ‘very bad deal’
As the deadline to stop automatic spending cuts and tax increases trigger nears, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) took to the Senate floor on Monday to decry the current deal, saying “no deal is better” than the...
View ArticleAll my wasted New Year’s
Like every other party girl, I was always in search of the perfect New Year's Eve. Four years ago, I rang it in at a club on the Lower East Side with my then-boyfriend. Champagne rained down on our...
View ArticlePatty Murray Celebrates Women In Senate At Historic High: ‘I Opened The Door’
WASHINGTON -- You wouldn't know it by watching Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on the Senate floor Thursday, but history was being made and she was a big part of the reason why.Murray was one of 20 female...
View ArticleHow conservatives ineptly plotted to oust John Boehner
Thursday's vote to reelect House Speaker John Boehner was made slightly more tense by a group of conservatives who attempted to oust Boehner by voting for someone else, or not voting at all.Leading up...
View ArticleSex In The Delivery Room: It Happens
“Ok, goodbye! We’ll be seeing you soon!” I said cheerfully to the patient and her boyfriend, gathering up her discharge paperwork as I waved them out the door of our labor and delivery floor.Behind me,...
View ArticleObama’s inauguration a boon for businesses
Tucked behind a tidy souvenir shop storefront on the ground floor of an office building one block from the White House, t-shirts, sweatshirts, buttons and a vast assortment of inauguration...
View ArticleViewfinder – Garbage Homes
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View ArticleGay Marriage vote likely in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Illinois is expected to come up in a State Senate committee meeting Tuesday and could see a floor vote on Valentine’s Day, said its...
View ArticlePenn State THON 2013 Dance Marathon Raises Funds To Fight Pediatric Cancer...
Penn State students hit the dance floor on Friday night for 46 hours of breakin' it down to raise funds to fight pediatric cancer. The oldest and longest dance marathon in the county, the university’s...
View ArticleNorth Carolina doesn’t want to see your breasts
Republicans in North Carolina want to outlaw showing your breasts in public--and it appears that a bill to do just that is headed for approval in the North Carolina legislature. The Associated Press...
View ArticleSinkhole that swallowed Florida man is ‘unstable’, expected to grow
The hole, estimated to be 20 feet across and 20 feet deep,sucked 37-year-old Jeff Bush, along with his bed, television anddresser into the ground as it broke through the concrete floor ofhis bedroom...
View ArticleRand Paul filibustering Brennan
Escalating his war with the administration over civil liberties and drone stikes, Sen. Rand Paul took the Senate floor today to engage in a rare talking filibuster in opposition to CIA nominee John...
View ArticleWatch live: Rand Paul filibusters Brennan nomination for CIA director
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday took the the Senate floor to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “I’m here to filibuster John...
View ArticleSix greatest filibusters of all time
Sen. Rand Paul just finished hour four of his real live filibuster against Obama CIA nominee John Brennan, and has now been joined by two colleagues. The reason it's attracted so much more attention...
View ArticleA very modern filibuster
At the time of writing, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is still holding the Senate floor with a good old-fashioned filibuster to block John Brennan's confirmation as CIA director. Although a traditional tool...
View Article#StandWithRand: Rand Paul, Barack Obama, Drones, and Presidential Kill Lists
For almost 13 hours on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ;led a filibuster on the Senate floor that called attention to the Obama administration's refusal to share its case for why the president can...
View ArticleRand Paul’s Filibuster Angers Establishment
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View ArticleRand Paul lashes out at Obama over NDAA at conservative conference
Speaking on day one of the annual CPAC conference nearWashington, DC, the libertarian-leaning senator briefly rehashedhis arguments from last week’s 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor by once again...
View ArticleDianne Feinstein’s lonely crusade
Everyone knew that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban was going to be the toughest gun-control reform to achieve in the wake of the Newtown massacre. Although it passed out of the Senate...
View ArticleMarcel Duchamp, chess player
BRIGHTON, UK — Swapping out pieces in a game of chess is only a smart move provided you hold the most on the board, or at least the strongest position. But a new show at the Barbican in London...
View ArticleEFF and ACLU team up against CISPA
As noted here previously, a revamped version of CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act), which is just as bad in terms of privacy protections as its first failed iteration, is in the...
View ArticleMega Man reboot was scrapped after just six months of development
It’s not often that we get to take a look at a potential game that ultimately wound up on the cutting room floor. What’s more, when the game in question was to be a reboot of an iconic franchise from...
View ArticleConnecticut sen. lashes out at NRA: What kind of liberty did Newtown kids have?
Connecticut Sen. Chris Brown (D) on Wednesday made an emotion plea on the Senate floor for lawmakers to come to an agreement and pass new gun control legislation following last year’s mass shooting at...
View ArticleThe Tsarnaevs and me
I started getting facials from Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (pronounced Zu-bey-da) six years ago when I was 17 at a spa in the Boston area. She soon after left the spa and contacted my mom to have us start...
View ArticleDon’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church?
One Sunday early this month, several hundred heathens gathered outside a deconsecrated church in East London. Most were twenty-something. The girls wore long, crinkled hair and silver rings: the boys,...
View ArticleJeff Merkley courts GOP support on ENDA
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., says that he's been having talks with Republicans about potential support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act - including with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Wis., who recently...
View ArticleMouthless ‘zombie worms’ use acid to drill into whale bones
A species of faceless, mouthless so-called zombie worm makes its home in the bones of whale skeletons on the ocean floor. According to Discovery.com, these worms use acid to bore into the bones, where...
View ArticleLouvre to move up to 90% artworks over historic flood fears
Amid fears that flooding of the River Seine could destroy the artworks forever, France’s culture minister Aurelie Filippetti after months of debate announced that art would be transferred from Paris...
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