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October 7 through October 17, Los Angeles will host its 2nd annual Beer Week. Breweries and bars throughout Los Angeles and Orange County will be participating with special promotions and beer tasting events. Check out our top ten picks for Beer Week:More...

LA Beer Week 2010 Event Highlights: Our Top 10 Picks

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Anthony Mullen's thick Bronx accent and tough demeanor gave him his street cred for the 20 years that he patrolled New York City as a cop. The 50-year-old former deputy inspector isn't using his stern disposition to cuff teenage gang members anymore, though.Instead he's teaching them -- as a special education teacher in Greenwich, Conn.More...

Classroom Heroes: Former NYPD Cop Keeps Teens Inspired, Off The Streets

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AUSTIN – Statewide poll numbers released today show that Democratic gubernatorial
candidate and former Houston Mayor Bill White trails Republican Governor Rick Perry
by five points. The fourth annual 2010 Texas Lyceum Poll, conducted September 22nd
– September 30th, shows Rick Perry leading Bill White 48% – 43% among likely voters.
The margin of error is +/-4.75 percentage points.

Among self-identified independent voters, White leads Perry 50% - 34%, with
Libertarian Kathie Glass also earning 10% support. Moderate voters are also breaking
to White, who leads Perry 67% - 22% amongst that group. Perry, however, commands
a 76%-17% lead amongst conservatives and has locked down 81% of the Republican
vote.

Read more: TX-Gov: 48% Perry (R), 43% White (D) (Texas Lyceum 9/22-30)

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Much has been made about the way Sharron Angle chooses to manifest her religion into almost every aspect of her Nevada Senate campaign.And now, Dennis Myers of the Reno News & Review is out with a piece that includes an extensive interview with Angle's Pastor, John Reed, that is sure to raise some eyebrows.More...

Sharron Angle's Pastor: She's 'Snow White,' Harry Reid Belongs To 'Cult' Of Mormonism

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Last night on "The Late Show," David Letterman mocked Fox News for picking up a story originally reported by notorious tabloid "Weekly World News." The story stated that Los Angeles had invested $1 billion in jet packs for its police force."We report, you decide," Letterman said, referring to Fox News' slogan. "We decide not to listen."More...

Letterman Suspects There's Trouble At Fox News (VIDEO)

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The CoolClimate Art Contest called on artists worldwide to submit their work for the first online art competition designed to generate iconic images that address the impact of climate change. More than 1,000 artists from around the globe made submissions through CoolClimate's partner, deviantART.com, the largest online network for artists, creatives, and art enthusiasts, with 15 million members worldwide. As Agnes Gund, art expert and one of the judges for the contest said. "There is probably no issue more important facing us today then how we are affecting our environment. The CoolClimate Art Contest is a smart and engaging way to compel artists to influence and communicate the critical issue of climate change. Art has the power to persuade on a deeply emotional level, sometimes more effectively than grafts or numbers or datasheets."A panel of notable art experts and celebrities selected the 20 semifinalists that were featured on The Huffington Post where the public voted to determine the Top 5 winners. "No Pollution Please" by Christos Lamprianidis from Greece won first place.More...

CoolClimate Art Contest Winner: What Motivated Me

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As promised, we've been rolling out all the funniest, most inappropriate, and now cutest and weirdest kids' costumes for Halloween! We added to our slideshow from last year becauase we just can't get enough of these adorable kids and the wacky things their parents dress them up as. Vote for your favorite and share your wacky kids' Halloween costumes with us as well!More...

The Weirdest (And Most Adorable) Halloween Costumes For Kids! (PHOTOS)

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One of the promises made in the GOP's "Pledge to America" is that the party will make all legislation available for three days so that legislators can read it for clarity.  One can hardly blame them for seeking to confront their own shortcomings!  Perhaps they can take that promise further, and actually promise to read the studies that they circulate to the media, especially the ones that actually undermine their professed policies.  This is just an idea I had!See, yesterday morning, the Republican National Committee really wanted to stick it to Democratic legislators for that time they totally punted on holding a vote on the future of the Bush-era tax cuts.  And so, they armed themselves with a shiny new study from the Tax Foundation that they thought really aided their criticism.  "What excuse will the Democrats use now?"More...

RNC Accidentally Highlights Study That Proves Dems' Tax Cut Plan Is More Generous

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I am old enough to remember the days when the private revelations from the Richard Nixon White House became public.  In private, President Nixon often stated that he did not want the complete facts on many things, so that in public he could maintain "deniability."  He would ask his aides, "Do we have deniability on that?"California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman claims deniability on the immigration status of her housekeeper, Nicky Diaz Santillian, who is fighting deportation because she has been an illegal alien in this country for many years.   Of course, Ms. Diaz was Ms. Whitman's housekeeper for nine years.More...

Meg Whitman for Governor: Do We Have Deniabillity on That?

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Friday was not just a day of staff shakeups for Obama, it was also a day for the President to rally Maryland Democrats by making his 20th reference to Republicans sitting by idly, sipping on Slurpees while Democrats tried to haul the country out of a deep recession.

Nobody is quite sure what makes the President so prone to invoking the slushy, sugary refreshment -- especially now, when the passage of Washington's hot and sweaty summer weather and the onset of fall might be leading many to think about hot chocolate instead of iced beverages.

Obama, Slurpees And The 'Official Beverage Of Obstructionist Republican Leaders' (VIDEO)