'Toddlers & Tiaras' Mom Forces 5-Year-Old To Get Eyebrow Wax (VIDEO)

WATCH: Mother Forces Terrified 5-Year-Old To Get Eyebrows Waxed On TLCs Toddlers & Tiaras
Another week, another episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, and another horrifying act of child cruelty. While there were no cone bras this time, there was an absolutely terrified five-year-old whose mother forced her to get her eyebrows waxed. Honestly, this video is actually quite difficult to watch. While it’s absolutely understandable that a child wouldn’t want hot wax poured onto her face and then ripped off by an uber-coiffed salon worker, in this case, the young girl had actually...

Mental health services severely cut in Pima County, AZ in 2010
It's not just patients on the organ transplant list in Arizona that have suffered under Jan Brewer's administration. Mental Health services in the state were drastically cut in 2010. WASHINGTON -- In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post. The deep cuts in treatment were protested st...

Christie Critiques Palins use of Blood Libel
The Huffington Post reports: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) gave a cool review Thursday of Sarah Palin’s use of the Controversial phrase “blood Libel” in her response to the criticism that she had received following the shooting in Arizona. “I don’t think anybody really believes that Governor Palin was trying to make someone get hurt or bring violence on,” Christie said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And I think she just should...

Huffington Post Diva Has Her Own Rules on Airline Flights?
Arianna Huffington kept talking and texting ten minutes after plane took off? If anyone of us in the “lemming” class would have continued talking on our cellphones on a commercial airline flight for TEN FULL MINUTES AFTER TAKE-OFF, we would have been hauled unceremoniously off the plane and arrested. We are told that this federal Regulation is due to the fact that it is DANGEROUS for cell signals to be mixing with airline communications during flights. So how is it Arianna Huffington...

Pawlenty Defends Palin From Elites
The Huffington Post reports: WASHINGTON — Speaking before the National Press Club on Thursday, in what was yet another tease at a forthcoming presidential run, Gov. Tim Pawlenty defended fellow GOPer Sarah Palin against critics who he deemed highbrow elitists. The Minnesota Republican, in a late stage of his book tour, had caused a mild sensation days before when he dared to cast doubt on Palin’s decision to use crosshairs to label the House races she was targeting in 2010. But he ...

Evening eats
a. Mitt Romney steps down from Marriott's board of directors. b. Rick Perry faces a potentially huge Budget Deficit. c. Some leading figures in on the religious right are enthusiastic about a Michele Bachmann bid. d. Palin faces some extreme hatred. e. Newt Gingrich's new cause. f. Sarah Palin generates more interest than Mitch McConnell. g. Jennifer Rubin says Palin's isolation hurt today. h. Palin's video, in perspective. i. Hillary, via the Huffington Post. ...

Huffington Post expects to double revenues this year
by Jim Romenesko Published Jan. 14, 2011 9:35 am Updated Jan. 14, 2011 9:45 am Huffington Post president Greg Coleman declines to disclose sales figures, but confirms to David Kaplan that the company reached profitability last year and made good on his goal to double revenues. “We’re putting plans and people in place that should allow us to double our revenues this year as well.” Help! for Writers Live chat today: How should Journalists handle incorrect tweets? Pew Report:...

Rush Limbaughs Tucson Billboard Rankles HuffPo
Tucson, Arizona’s historic Old Town is in trouble. The Huffington Post doesn’t want the words “straight shooter,” or pictures of bullet holes in the heart of the old West. Rush Limbaugh has a billboard in Tucson that has apparently been there for some time. The Huffington Post suggests “Limbaugh’s people might want to take it down now . Will Old Town, the city’s most popular tourist attraction be forced to close the dangerous streets where gun fights pre...

The Climate Post: Amidst a giant snowstorm, 2010 declared hottest year ever
Snow in Huntsville, Alabama.Photo: James ReynoldsNot everyone can have the media savvy of Snooki, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's timing couldn't be worse: with snow in every state but Florida (yes, even Hawaii), the agency just announced 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year for Global Temperature. And scientists wonder why they continue to see polls like this. Looking at just the United States it was merely the 23rd warmest year on record, no doubt a factor in the a...

Republicans' health repeal would cut off expansion of mental health services
Amanda Terkel has a very good reminder about the Affordable Care Act--with their Repeal of the "job-killing" health reform law, they would kill an expansion of Mental Health services. "The shooter was a very disturbed individual and it appears there were so many warning signs that he was going to do something horrible," Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) wrote on his Facebook page. "We should be focusing on the Mental Health crisis in our country, not politics." As Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress points ou...

Pregnant Woman Kicked Out of Bar
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - The Coach House Restaurant in suburban Roselle, Illinois, has come under fire for allegedly kicking out a pregnant woman. Michelle Lee, 29, was in town from Denver for her baby shower, when friends invited her out to the bar, where she was then asked to leave soon after her arrival. Lee told ABC News , "I was stunned. He said, 'If anything happened to you here, we would be responsible.'" She stated that she was only sipping water while standing along a friend, Lisa Ruiz,...

BREAKING: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
Source: Huffington Post BREAKING: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields? It's been a long time coming. Now it's final. Lisa Jackson and the EPA have gone to the mountaintop removal and announced its Veto of the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in Appalachia. "This ushers in a new era of civility in the coalfields," said long-time coalfields justice leader Bo Webb. He added: "I think Judy Bonds just sent us all a little smile," referring to ...

After AZ Shooting, UFC Fighter Regrets Making Threatening Obama Comment
In the wake of the Mass Shooting in Arizona that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, UFC fighter Jacob Volkmann regrets saying he would like to "knock some sense into that idiot" President Barack Obama. "I would never make that comment if that shooting happened first," Volkmann told the Huffington Post. "I can't imagine what it's like for the parents. I got a 4-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy." Volkmann said in a recent interview that he would next like to fight O...

The War in Afghanistan
A prominent conservative thinker is calling on Republicans to begin a serious debate about the War in Afghanistan, its costs and what Ronald Reagan would do in the same circumstances. And while Grover Norquist stopped short of personally calling for a rapid withdrawal, he made it clear Tuesday night that he thinks an honest conversation on the right would inevitably lead to that conclusion. “I’m confident about where that conversation would go,” he told attendees of a dinner ...

Fiji Water's Tall Tales
— Flickr useresther dyson/Creative Commons Yesterday, craigslist founder Craig Newmark posted this interview he did with Fiji Water co-owner Lynda Resnick on the Huffington Post. (Picture of Newmark and Resnick at left.) Newmark wrote he was looking for some storytelling advice. He went to the right person. Resnick told him: We have so much competition in the marketplace that if you don't have a real, truthful story behind your product or service, it simply won't be sustainable... Brands...

Now's Your Chance!
TPM is currently interviewing for our spring and summer intern cycles. TPM interns have gone on to jobs at The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, Yahoo, The New Republic, Slate, The New York Sun and sundry other cool places as well as frequently getting hired at TPM. TPM interns are probably as intimately and rapidly involved in the preparation and production of news coverage as interns at any news organization. That ranges from work on the news se...

New Huffington Post Column
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FOMC 2005 Transcripts: 'Flip That House' as Bubble Sign
by CalculatedRisk on 1/14/2011 09:15:00 PM The Fed released the FOMC transcripts from 2005 today. That was a key year for the Housing Bubble because that is when activity peaked - also inventory started to rise towards the end of the year and that helped me call the top. Earlier I excerpted some comments from the June meeting - a meeting focused on housing. Here is more from Ryan Grim at the HuffPo: Fed Economist To Greenspan In 2005: Discovery Channel's 'Flip That House' Should Cause 'Existen...

A Study: Who Has the Jewish Problem: Huffington Post or Sarah Palin
By Barry Rubin An examination of the Huffington Post, a leading news site, and Sarah Palin for evidence of antisemitic associations. The results? Two people who belong to a group to which Palin also belongs (but have no direct connection with her) make antisemitic statements. Scores of people who write articles on the Huffington Post--which is never criticized or examined by the mass media on this issue--do so. None of them have been barred from writing because of these statements nor have the...

Four proposed security measures that won't work
Jason Linkins has written a piece for the Huffington Post about the members of Congress who've come up with ideas for Legislation designed to prevent what happened in Tucson from ever happening again. The problem all these ideas have in common, he points out, is that nobody has yet been able to get a handle on what actually caused the events. Instead, every proposal has been -- though well-intentioned -- reactionary, and not feasible in the long term. As he puts it, "a slow and thought...

23rd (out of 116) hottest year
In June, the Huffington Post declared: “NOAA: 2010 Hottest Year on Record So Far.” This was based on the “average temperature” for the first 5 months of the year, which included a pretty cold January. From Anthony Watts: “While there’s been a lot of attention given to the recent NOAA and NASA Press Releases stating that 2010 was tied for the warmest year globally, it didn’t meet that criteria in the USA by a significant margin according the the data directly a...

Tucson Aftermath: Not the Lefts First Political Witch Hunt
As he sits behind bars awaiting trial, Jared Loughner is undoubtedly relishing every moment of the ruckus that he managed to stir up with his deadly rampage in Tucson. In addition to murdering six innocent human beings and wounding more than a dozen others in an act of sheer evil, the deranged gunman has set off a media and political frenzy that refuses to abate. By various accounts, this is precisely what Loughner was hoping for. As his close friend Bryce Tierney told Mother Jones, “I thi...

Dead Woman Donated Thousands To Tea Party Express
Source: The Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- Joan Snyder Holmes has been dead for nearly four years. But during the past two years, she's managed to make thousands of dollars in donations to one of the country's premier Tea Party organizations. Those donations, uncovered by the Center For Responsive Politics in a report released Friday, gives an alternate, more cryptic meaning to the term Grassroots. According to the money-in-politics investigative organization, Tea Party Express' PAC reported rece...

Huckabee Plans Trip to Alaska
The Huffington Post reports: WASHINGTON — Move over Sarah Palin, the mythic land of Alaska is getting some attention from another would-be Republican contender. If former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee hopes to win the GOP nomination in 2012, he’s going to have to woo some of Palin’s fans, so he’s made a logical move. He’s starring in a weeklong “Christian-based” cruise along the Alaskan coast this summer. Alaskan cruises are already famous in the rec...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/14/2011
The riots and unrest in Tunisia have abated somewhat since President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down from his office and left the country. He is reported to have gone into exile in Saudi Arabia. Before he resigned, Mr. Ben-Ali commanded the police to stop firing on Protesters, and ordered a reduction in the price of staple foods such as bread, milk, and sugar. The Rioting began as a Protest against major Inflation and high Unemployment, but escalated to civil conflict after protesters were ...