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Time to Cut Up Congress' Credit Cards

When there is a financial crisis in my family, we have a budget meeting, we look things over. Maybe this is the same with you — I bet it is. You look at the numbers. And let’s say that you find out that you’ve run up so much debt, that …

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Evidence is Piling Up Against Dermatologist to the Stars in Jackson Death

The heat is on for Michael Jackson’s longtime friend and dermatologist Arnold Klein who investigators believe facilitated the years-long drug abuse that could have caused the death of the King of Pop. According to the warrant and affidavit for last Friday’s raid on Mickey Fine Pharmacy in Beverly Hills, Calif. …

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New York Residents With Disabilities Outraged by 'Retard' Comment at County Meeting

NOWHERE TO HIDE: The Monroe County Legislature in Upstate New York is a place where the politics are partisan and the 29 county legislators scrap fiercely. But some say that last month, during a roll call vote, someone in the room went too far — using the painful and socially …

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Why Government-Run Health Care Is a Bad Idea

I want to let you in on a little secret about why I’m opposed to President Obama’s rush to get a government health care plan in place. It’s not personal opposition to President Obama and, in fact, it’s not even political opposition because it’s being pushed exclusively by Democrats. It’s …

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Reporter's Notebook: Rumors of Pope's Demise Exaggerated

ROME – The pope is dying again. I just read about it yesterday. Some of my friends heard it on the radio, and called to see if it was true. By my count, Pope John Paul II has been dying since one Friday afternoon in September of 1994. I was …

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Rod Stewart: No. 1, at Last, From the Get-Go

Rod Stewart: No. 1, at Last | Bette Midler| ‘Three Kings’ Doc Will Air| Lauren Bacall Rod Stewart: No. 1, at Last, From the Get-Go Rod Stewart‘s new album, “Stardust: The Great American Songbook Volume 3,” is No. 1 this week with 250,000 copies sold. Are you listening? Rod Stewart …

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Pop Tarts: Posh & Becks Swindle Party Place From Newlyweds

It seems David and Victoria Beckham know what they want, what they really really want — and they are willing to pay for it, even if it means buying out someone else’s wedding. Just before leaving London for L.A., the British babes decided they wanted to party, but their “Posh” …

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JetBlue and the Radical Left

What do you think of someone who says the following: The world would be better off without him? That after Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. The pope is a primate. Evangelicals are nut cases. Better luck next time after an assassination plot against Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan. …

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Pictures of TomKat's Baby Didn't Sell

TomKat | Arif Mardin, R.I.P. | Steve Carell | Odds ‘n’ Ends Pictures of TomKat’s Baby Didn’t Sell If like everyone else you’ve been wondering what happened to Suri Cruise and why we’ve never seen a picture of her, here is part of the answer: No one wanted to pay …

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James Taylor: Fire, Rain and No Family

James Taylor: Fire, Rain and No Family; Giulianis Do Gotham Gala James Taylor: Fire, Rain and No Family Last night: the annual MusiCares Person of the Year dinner in Hollywood, the pre-Grammy wingding thrown to raise money for the recording academy’s important educational charity. Every year a big star is …

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