GOP SENATOR: It's 'Inevitable' That A Republican Presidential Candidate Will Support Gay Marriage

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he thought it was "inevitable" a future Republican presidential candidate would offer support for same-sex marriage.  "I think that’s inevitable. There will be one and he will receive bipartisan support — or she will. So I think that the answer is yes," Flake said on NBC's "Meet the Press." When host Chuck Todd asked Flake about his own views on gay marriage, Flake said those hadn't changed. Republican...

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Violin Science: Stradivari, Guarneri Aimed To Mimic Human Voice, Soprano Study Suggests

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/29/2013 11:12 AM EDT on LiveScience Virtuosos who describe the singing voice of a violin may be on to something. The great violin makers, such as Stradivari and Guarneri, may have designed violins to mimic the human voice, new research suggests. The research, described in the current issue of Savart Journal, found the violin produced several vowel sounds, including the Italian "i" and "e" sounds...

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Republican Party Faces Growing Division In Once-Solid South

Given what the Republican Party is and where America’s demographics are heading, it is unclear whether the Grand Old Party can successfully pivot to the center without jeopardizing its socially conservative evangelical base.Read More...More on Republican Party ...

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HBO Talks 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy

How does HBO feel about having the most pirated show on TV?Read More......

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What It's Like To Share A Stranger's Home

ALL WE KNOW of Maya S. is the back of her head. Her thumbnail indicates she is blonde with a bun and a floral-print shirt. There are no photographs of her face in the apartment even though it’s otherwise lived-in, cozy. Just as her Airbnb ad described it. When I borrow a pair of mittens that hang from her coatrack, I hope to whomever that she doesn’t accidentally catch me wearing them around the neighborhood, masquerading as Maya S. on the cobbled...

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Apple's "iPad Mini" Trademark Application Rejected by Patent Office

In January, the U.S. PatentOffice rejected Apple’s attempt to trademark “iPad Mini,”* releasingthe official letter today. The office called the term "iPad mini"“merely descriptive” because “the prefix ‘I’ denotes ‘internet’”and “[t]he term ‘pad’ refers to a ‘pad computer’ or ‘internet paddevice,’ terms used synonymously to refer to tablet computers, of‘a complete computer contained in a touch screen.’” Apple hastrademarked dozens ofnames, from “AirDrop”...

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Mark Kelly: Background Checks Are Crucial, But NRA 'Right' On Mental Health Records

Legislation that doesn't address universal gun background checks would be a "mistake," Mark Kelly said Sunday on Fox News, adding that efforts should also be made to keep guns from the mentally ill.Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) is crafting a bill that wouldn't include such background checks, but Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), expressed skepticism."I think any bill that does not include a universal background check...

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Meet Mitch McGary, The Unicycle-Riding Freshman Who's Taking The NCAA Tournament By Storm

Mitch McGary has been one of the breakout stars of the NCAA Tournament. The 20-year-old freshman has averaged 17.5 points and 11.5 rebounds during Michigan's Final Four run. Towards the end of Michigan's blowout over Florida, the game got so out of hand that the CBS announcers brought up this fun fact: Mitch McGary can ride a unicycle. We did some digging, and it turns out that he's something of a renaissance man. He can, indeed, ride a unicycle....

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J.D. Tuccille Discusses Culture War on HuffPost Live

Remember the 1990s, when PatBuchanan went mano a mano with Barney Frank in a duel tothe death over the drection of American society? No, neither do I.Yet the supposed "culture war" between liberals and conservativeskeeps resurfacing as a concept, if only as a convenient way toframe evolving views on social issues in a partisan red/blue waysufficiently simplified so that even political journalists andgovernment officials can understand. I appeared...

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Barack Obama Is Looking Relaxed At The NCAA Tournament

President Barack Obama was in attendance at Saturday's regional final of the NCAA tournament in Washington D.C. between Syracuse and Marquette. He looked relaxed wearing his Under Armour jacket and with his leg up on the wall. He was seated with NCAA president Mark Emmert (far left) and the president's personal aide, Reggie Love (left). The CBS commentators identified the man on the right as  the president's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, head...

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