Gary Johnson At CPAC: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — Typically, when a politician meets a reporter for an interview, decorum dictates that said politician offer up a bland pleasantry to break the ice. “Thanks for…
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Netanyahu Takes Campaign Against Iran Deal To Jerusalem Holy Site
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu took his campaign against a nuclear deal with Iran to Jerusalem’s sacred Western Wall on Saturday, on the…
Attack of the Student Hairdressers
When my two eldest girls went off to college, I began to look for a part-time job. Through the grapevine, I heard of an opening for a part-time substitute teacher…
Obama, Netanyahu On Collision Course 6 Years In The Making
For six years, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been on a collision course over how to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a high-stakes endeavor both men…
6 questions about Netanyahu’s visit
A few dozen Democrats plan to skip the speech, the White House isn’t done blasting the prime minister and Republicansespecially presidential hopefulsare using it all as red meat. In Israel,…
Anti-Semitism Is A Big Problem At American College Campuses, According To New Report
WASHINGTON (RNS) A student group in South Africa this month called on all Jews to leave the Durban University of Technology, an act of anti-Semitism that Americans could not imagine…
The Kids Are All Right With Transgender Rights
Last summer, a troubling poll showed that a majority of Americans had a problem with transgender people using bathrooms that correspond with their identity. A poll conducted last week brings…
Russian Investigation Examines Possible Motives For Boris Nemtsov Murder
Russia’s top investigative body said Saturday it is looking into several possible motives for the killing of prominent opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, including an attempt to destabilize the state, Islamic…
Russia Mourns Murdered Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov
By Alexander Winning and Katya Golubkova MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Thousands of stunned Russians laid flowers and lit candles on Saturday on the bridge where opposition politician Boris Nemtsov…
Former Obama Campaign Aide Now Works to Oust Netanyahu
WASHINGTON — Jeremy Bird, the architect of the grass-roots and online organizing efforts that powered President Obama’s presidential campaigns from Chicago, is advising a similar operation in Tel Aviv. But…
Lupita Nyong’o’s $150,000 pearl Oscars dress possibly recovered
The one encrusted with 6,000 white Akoya pearls that were worth, Fortune estimated, $150,000. – Sounds like it would be hard to mistake the dress, but the sheriff’s department is…
Lupita Nyong’o’s $150,000 pearl Oscars dress possibly recovered
You know, the white custom Calvin Klein gown that adorned actress Lupita Nyong’o when she attended Sunday’s Academy Awards. The one encrusted with 6,000 white Akoya pearls that were worth,…
At Prada: Airbrushing and the Woman
MILAN — “What is real and what is fake? What does the confusion of the two mean for our understanding of beauty?” These are questions that have been raised again…
Lupita Nyong’o’s Stolen Dress Returned By Thief: Report
LOS ANGELES, Feb 27 (Reuters) – The $150,000 Oscar gown worn by actress Lupita Nyong’o that was stolen two days ago was returned on Friday by the thief, who tipped…
Why I Don’t Regret Getting Married (But I Regret Having A Wedding)
A little over a year ago I had my very own white wedding cliché. After months of stressful planning and teeth grinding at my mother in law to be, I…
3 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Fabric Scraps
Everyone has that pile of clothes they no longer wear but haven’t gotten around to donating. And while it’s always good to donate items to, say, Goodwill, there might be…
HUFFPOST HILL – TSA Workers To Be Paid In Enjoyment
Donald Trump’s speech at CPAC makes us wonder why the news cycle gods didn’t bless us with llamas and optical illusion dresses today. Barry Loudermilk allowed the country to mostly…
HUFFPOST HILL – TSA Workers To Be Paid In Enjoyment
Donald Trump’s speech at CPAC makes us wonder why the news cycle gods didn’t bless us with llamas and optical illusion dresses today. Barry Loudermilk allowed the country to mostly…
30 Original Jokes About #TheDress
1. Good one. We see purple and black, if you were wondering. — Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) February 27, 2015 2. Nice. The dress is red and black. — Atlanta Falcons…
Fans honor Nimoy with tweets, Vulcan salute
Suddenly there was more sobering news. Leonard Nimoy, “Star Trek’s” beloved Mr. Spock, had died. The only blue and gold that matter today. #TheDress pic.twitter.com/ggA0WUJfXG His co-stars, fellow celebrities and…
Why blue/black/white/gold dress went viral
There’s a simple reason why the dress debate and the rampaging llamas in Arizona have taken over our news feeds, our conversations and our lives this weekand it has more…
This Woman Built A Ton Of Furniture In The Time It Takes To Make A Sandwich
If you’ve ever put together an Ikea bed (or, say, attempted to build a piece of furniture yourself) then you know full well that furniture assembly and construction is one…
Why We Do NOT Think Claudio Cutugno’s Models Were In Blackface
If the debate around “The Dress” has taught us anything, it’s that the way we see color can be starkly different. For the record, I’m #TeamBlueAndBlack. That perception is being…
Why Netanyahu is confronting the White House
Israel, he declared, would defend itself “with all the means at our disposal.” These words still reverberate in Israel today, and they help explain why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is…
#TheDress Is Actually A Mother-Of-The-Bride Dress (And P.S. It’s Black And Blue)
Turns out, the black and blue (or, perhaps, white and gold) dress that has undoubtedly taken over your newsfeed in the last 24 hours actually began as one woman’s mother-of-the-bride…
7 Images Almost As Freaky As #TheDress
This photo of a dress has now divided all of humanity into dueling factions, with sane individuals who see this image as white and gold pitted against the dangerous loons…
D.C. disconnect: The dress vs. llama vs. CPAC
Ask someone about a recent high-speed chase and they’ll laugh about llamas on the loose in Arizona. But ask about the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, and you’ll likely…
LA Teachers, Union Leaders Rally Amid Stalled Talks
Dressed in red and raising signs into the air, thousands of teachers filled a downtown Los Angeles park on Thursday in demand of higher wages and smaller class sizes amid…
The Internet Just Served Up Some Weird Stuff, So Here Are Some Joe Biden Photos To Cleanse Your Palate
The last 24 hours of the Internet have been pretty weird. First we all stopped to watch a live llama chase, and then there was that argument over the color…
Christian College Student Attacked With Apple For Questioning Treatment Of Gays
After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school’s stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him “as a…