To quote Reverend Wright, it looks like the “chickens have come home to roost.” Referring to McCain and Palin, Barack Obama used the phrase “lipstick on a pig.” He now claims McCain seized this innocent remark because it’s “catnip for the news media.” Okay, so we’ve got chickens, pigs and …

This is part of the America’s Future series airing on FOX News Channel, looking at the challenges facing the country in the 21st century. LOS ANGELES — It’s a storyline straight out of a Hollywood screenplay: Cutthroat competitors burning through mountains of cash in a fiercely contested election. But this …

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Oprah Winfrey may have gone too far in exploiting and distributing the teachings of a questionable New Age writer. On Monday night, Winfrey conducted her weekly Web “event” seminar with New Age writer Eckhart Tolle. His message: “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” Got that? The seminar …

It was only a matter of time before I was going to have to take this year’s “So You Think You Can Dance” finalists off the pedestal I put them on … I just didn’t think it would be so soon. After dazzling us last week by dominating in unfamiliar …

LOS ANGELES – When it comes to saving the day, Maria Bello isn’t confined to her reel-life role in the upcoming “Mummy.” The actress recently became a real-life hero during a flight from Los Angeles to New York. Bello was sitting in coach (yes, we were surprised by that as …

Is General Electric, the parent company of NBC, doing business with Iran? And did they do business with the bin Laden family after 9/11? That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Now you may remember former NBC correspondent John Hockenberry. He competed against us on MSNBC for …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: On the Defensive Bill Moyers is again defending his recent PBS interview with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and says Wright has been the victim of the news media. Moyers said on Tuesday’s “The Daily Show”, “[Wright’s] whole career was being summed up …

Eight years after it was declared practically dead in the U.S., measles is making a comeback. Outbreaks of the highly contagious virus in nearly a dozen states have led to more than 70 cases this year, federal health officials said Thursday. Those are the highest numbers in six years. The …

LOS ANGELES – Does supermodel Molly Sims have something against “The Hills”? Fresh off a flight from New York City, Sims hosted last Thursday’s The Gen Art & Acura TSX Launch Party in West Hollywood. But while the “Las Vegas” starlet was all smiles for the cameras, there was one …