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Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitizer prize winning reporter who has worked for the Washington Post and Huffington Post, has revealed that he is an illegal alien in a coordinated media push with the New York Times and ABC News seeking amnesty for illegal aliens like him.Vargas also revealed that he breached White House security by using a fake ID, including when he covered a state dinner. And that a superior at the Washington Post knew and approved of his actions.Vargas made the revelations in an article he authored published in the upcoming New York Times Sunday Magazine.Vargas writes that at...

<p>Twelve reasons why the AOL – Huffington Post merger is going down in flames.</p> <p>The tragedy here is that not only will the deal ruin AOL, but it will also ruin the Huffington Post.</p> <p>It is the Peter Principle on a grand scale. None of AOL’s senior editors (Huffington, Roy Sekoff, and Nico Pitney) have ever managed more than a few people. Now they have hundreds and lack the experience to manage a team this big. Behind the scenes, long time Huffposters say that Jai Singh’s departure has eliminated the key adult in the room. Now they need to grow HuffPost and save AOL – not possible.</p>

Because the leftwing requirements for posting at the HUffington Post are much less stringent than at DUmmieland, the HUffies are much more skeptical of Anthony Weiner's weiner story than the DUmmies who have SWALLOWED it whole. You can see HUffie skepticism about Weiner in this THREAD, "Anthony Weiner Says He Was #Hacked, After Briefs Shot Tweeted From His Account." So let us now watch most of the HUffies who have kept their hands off Weiner comment skeptically on the story in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, posting yet another story on this topic because he...

Interesting revelation at Huffington Post today about International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn facing charges stemming from an alleged sexual assault involving a hotel maid. Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2011/05/16/when-not-otherwise-engaged-imfs-strauss-kahn-blogs-huffington-post#ixzz1MYtmX2Lu

Labor unions claim to champion the Worker, confronting management in pursuit of "fair" compensation. However, the real enemies of organized labor have always been competing non-union workers. We need look no further than the word "scab." This pejorative reference to someone who crosses a picket line was coined for a single purpose, to coerce behavior through intimidation. That's the only way a union can function. The only way to prevent people from filling vacancies left by strike is to - well, prevent them. That is why conservatives tend to oppose organized labor, not because there is anything inherently wrong with...

Imagine an argument for the abolition of slavery based not upon natural law and fundamental human rights, but whether slavery is an effective means of production. Such an abolitionist might say, Slaves cannot be relied upon to produce all that the country requires. The subsequent debate would then center around the efficiency of slavery, rather than its morality. That's the character of our modern debate regarding taxation. The Wall Street Journal published an editorial on Monday demonstrating "the fiscal futility of raising rates on the top 2%, or even the top 5% or 10%, of taxpayers to close the deficit."...

More details on the class action lawsuit a group of unpaid bloggers have filed against Arianna Huffington have emerged. The group, led by a freelancer and activist, and union organizer by the name of Jonathan Tasini -- who has contributed more than 250 blog posts to HuffPost since 2005 -- filed the complaint in a New York court Tuesday. They are seeking $105 million in damages on behalf of bloggers and other Huffington Post writers who submitted work for which they weren’t paid. $105 million. That is one third of what Arianna made on the sale. According to WaPo, Tasini...

When asked why he had chosen to rob banks, Willie Sutton reportedly answered, "because that's where the money is." In later years, he expounded. I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all. Go where the money is...and go there often.Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under the Clinton Administration, seems to...

President Obama announced his campaign for reelection Monday, kicking things off with a video and big ad buy across the liberal side of the internet. Henry Copeland writes that the Obama campaign has bought the first 2012 BlogAds, which will appear on sites like BlueVirginia, an explicitly liberal site. But where else has the campaign made an ad buy? At the supposedly non-lefty Huffington Post. This is interesting because last week, in a widely-discussed, fairly hostile interview with The New York Times' Magazine's Andrew Goldman, Huffington rather surprisingly insisted that her site is not of the liberal persuasion: You’ve been...

By now, most have heard that Andrew Breitbart has been booted from the front page of the Huffington Post as a result of liberal pressure and political correctness. However, some may not know one of the driving groups behind silencing Andrew was Color of Change, which was co-founded by self-admitted Communist, 9/11 Truther, and Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones. To add more fuel to the fire, a video has been uncovered showing Van Jones leading an anti-American rally just one day after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

It appears that among the examples of heroism, progressives want to include organizing those hopeless, down trodden, individuals, who were seduced by the American dream of owning their own homes, into a collective group of deadbeats. At least, that is the latest takeaway from an interview conducted by Dylan Ratigan with Stephen Lerner. Ratigan later posted snippets of the interview at the Huffington Post with this bold question in the post’s title, “Collective Bargaining for Homeowners: Heroism or Terrorism?” Mr. Ratigan and Mr. Lerner should know it’s not heroic to take advantage of over-mortgaged homeowners for the purpose of making...

The national Newspaper Guild has upped the ante in a strike against the Huffington Post, calling on all unpaid writers to stop contributions to the website. The 26,000-member union of media workers asked all unpaid contributors on Wednesday to withhold their work in support of a strike launched earlier this year by the art publication Visual Arts Source, whose writers had previously contributed free content to the Post. "Join us in shining a light on the unprofessional and unethical practices of this company," the Guild wrote in a press release. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and...

A strike called by unpaid Huffington Post contributors received a major boost Wednesday with a call to arms released by the national Newspaper Guild. The industry association called on contributors not currently on strike to cease contributions and asked members to help by “shining a light on the unprofessional and unethical practices of this company.” The Newspaper Guild boasts 26,000 members and is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The CWA is affiliated with the AFL-CIO. The strike was called earlier this year by the membership of Visual Art Source, whose 50 members had previously contributed content for...

NEW YORK, (AP) -- AOL says Biz Stone, one of the founders of messaging service Twitter, is joining AOL and its recent acquisition The Huffington Post Media Group as an adviser on "social impact and cause-based initiatives." AOL Inc. CEO Tim Armstrong said Monday that Stone will be advising on "using innovative approaches to do good and give back."

My job deprives me of the luxury of partisanship, as I have to reach out to both sides on the issue of free trade--a disastrous policy one can give impeccably liberal or conservative reasons to be against. So I can't offer any opinion of the Tea Party movement per se. But I can tell you that the way they're handling the issue of free trade reveals a lot about them. Over the last year, I've interacted with the Tea Party about the issue at both the local level and with some of their leadership. And I've observed a few things....

AFP - Bill Keller, executive editor of the venerable New York Times, and Arianna Huffington, founder of brash newcomer The Huffington Post, exchanged blows on Thursday in a highly public spat. http://www.france24.com/en/20110311-ny-times-huffington-post-exchange-barbs

Regular visitors to the Huffington Post have quite a surprise waiting for them on the homepage: the debut of the site’s newest contributor, right-wing web proprietor Andrew Breitbart. Yes, that Andrew Breitbart. While Breitbart had been involved in the creation of the site, he had yet to procure a byline. But now he has taken his battle to “fight back against the left and its accomplices in the mainstream media” straight to their home turf– and if commenters are any indication, he is receiving a rather warm welcome. The decision to publish Breitbart is particularly interesting in itself, but the...

That hurts. In order to integrate the Huffington Post into the AOL family, the company will be eliminating 900 jobs as they restructure the blog to try to return to revenue growth.

For the better part of the last year, Visual Art Source reposted a number of the articles that we publish in our monthly digest, ArtScene, as well as in our Visual Art Source weekly newsletter and on our website to a nationally branded website owned and operated by the author of a book published last year entitled Third World America: How our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream. That author is Arianna Huffington, the website in question being the Huffington Post... [Snip] Huffington has brilliantly and gracefully exploited at least hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of...

Arianna Huffington is being cast by some unpaid Huffington Post contributors as an unethical robber baron. With Huffington awash in funds from AOL’s $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post, contributors have called a strike to demand proper compensation. The Huffington Post, established in 2005, emerged as a leading source of aggregated news content and liberal commentary written by unpaid contributors. With the success of the site, founder Arianna Huffington rocketed to national fame, frequently appearing as a guest on cable news programs. Bill Lasarow, Publisher and Co-Editor of Visual Art Source, announced that his organization is “now going on...