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CPAC Controversy: Should Sarah Palin Have Called Rick Santorum a 'Neanderthal'? [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday's Conservative Political Action Conference is missing one of the most prominent conservatives in the country: Sarah Palin. Palin was offered the opportunity to give the event's keynote address on Sunday, but she declined and said she would skip CPAC entirely. That led former Pennsylvania senator, 2012 hopeful and scheduled CPAC attendee Rick Santorum to take veiled potshots at the former Alaska governor. "I have a feeling that she has some demands on her time, and a lot of them have financial benefit attached to them," Santorum said on a conservative online radio show. He added, "I ...
Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks on Twitter
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 3) -- Not everyone is out to get Julian Assange. Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and former presidential candidate, took to his Twitter feed today and put up a staunch defense of WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website that so many in the U.S. government love to hate. From Newt Gingrich to Hillary Rodham Clinton to Sarah Palin, American politicians spent the week excoriating Assange, the site's founder, for leaking classified government documents to the world. But the iconoclastic Rep. Paul wasn't joining about to join in the chorus. .bbpBox10716266021003264 ...
For Conservatives, Soros Is the New ACORN
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Nov. 12) -- With ACORN now officially out of business, conservative ire has found a new focal point: billionaire George Soros. As the one-man bank behind a plethora of liberal causes, seemingly lefty nonprofits, reviled media outlets like NPR, Democratic candidates and agitating websites like Media Matters, Soros has received an awful lot of attention in the past year, much of it from the commentators at Fox News. In fact, at Fox, Soros' name has replaced ACORN as the new synonym for all that is wrong with the world. The past week alone two rather significant Soros stories have made news: ...
Did Coco Live Up to the Hype? Critics Weigh In on 'Conan'
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- Critics are divided after weighing in on last night's highly anticipated premiere of "Conan" on TBS, during which the scorned Conan O'Brien hoped to relaunch his late-night career after being ousted from his gig on "The Tonight Show" in January. O'Brien fell back on much of the self-deprecating humor that endeared him to the public during his tenure at NBC, when he battled former "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno for the coveted role of host. Citing the abysmal ratings for "The Jay Leno Show," Leno's ill-fated venture into prime time, NBC sacked O'Brien and re-installed Leno as ...
Wichita Hairstylist Snips at Haircutting World Record
By Larry Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- When it comes to hairstyling, Patrick Lomantini stands 227 cuts above the rest. That's because the 42-year-old stylist recently gave that many haircuts during a 72-hour period in a bid to set a Guinness World Record in endurance haircutting. The attempt, staged at Lomantini's salon in Wichita, Kan., took place from Aug. 19 to 22. To ensure a steady supply of customers, Lomantini offered haircuts free of charge, with all tips and donations going to the Kansas Humane Society. During the three-day affair, Lomantini relied on a 12-person support team to clean the work area, do ...
Are US Officials Putting Orwellian Spin on Iraq Troop Withdrawal?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 16) -- "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." That's George Orwell, who New York University history professor Hannah Gurman writes would be having "a field day" with the spin now coming from the U.S. Ministry of Information regarding troop pullouts from Iraq. "He could not have invented a more Orwellian tale than the actual story of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq," she writes in a provocative essay for ...
Two Weddings and an E-mail
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs some may have heard, Chelsea Clinton is getting married on Saturday in a multimillion-dollar wedding. People have said the event is excessive, especially in these tough times. Others, the U.K. Guardian's, Paul Harris, observe, after the family scandals she endured, Chelsea deserves an extraordinary wedding, and still others react with a yawn. For a few, the yawn morphs into a sneer. In the comment section of the Guardian, Harris was upbraided for his sycophancy: "You write informed pieces about Detroit and then end up writing this dreadful crap about the Clinton daughter. Were you hoping ...
Makeup Artist Erwin Gomez to Testify About White House Crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyCelebrity stylist Erwin Gomez (pictured, at right) will be testifying before a federal grand jury Tuesday morning, apparently in an investigation related to now-infamous White House state dinner crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi. Both Gomez and "hair artist" Peggy Ioakim received subpoenas Friday to testify. The CEO of the Erwin Gomez Salon and Spa, James Packard-Gomez (also pictured), says that Ioakim has been called to testify at 11:30 a.m. and Gomez at 12:30 p.m. at the federal courthouse at Third Street and Constitution Avenue. The salon is being represented by the law firm Tobin, ...
King Kaufman Doesn't Watch Much Soccer
By David J. Warner - AOL NewsOver at Salon, King Kaufman called out ESPN for its handling of today's weather-related technical difficulties during the EURO 2008 semifinal between Germany and Turkey. In this column, Kaufman claimed that ESPN was somehow being dishonest because studio lead Rece Davis never made it clear that Derek Rae and Andy Gray were calling the game from a studio in Bristol, rather than from St. Jakob Park itself, and when the signal went out, the network had no way to describe what was happening.As someone who has watched this competition from the start, I have to ask -- at what point did ESPN not make ...
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