Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Crude Awakening As we told you earlier — oil prices are nearing five year lows. and now some oil producing countries, traders and refineries are withholding deliveries in an effort to drive up the price. The New York Times reports there are …

So because our friend Andrew Breitbart was going to be on Bill Maher’s painful show, “Real Time,” I defied doctor’s orders and tuned in. At the start, Maher had Steven Pearlstein, the business columnist for The Washington Post who, I guess, is an expert on the economy. It didn’t matter …

Radio personality Don Imus announced Monday that he is suffering from stage II prostate cancer. He is not alone. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Of the estimated 234,000 newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer made each year, 20,000 will die. But the good news …

As the 40th-anniversary celebrations of the moon landing end, a human voyage to Mars remains a holy grail for NASA. “We’re still looking at human exploration of Mars as one of the goals of the future at the top level,” said NASA researcher Bret Drake with Lunar and Mars Integration …

The recent searches of Michael Jackson’s personal physician’s home and offices indicate that investigators have gathered significant evidence against him — likely enough to charge him with manslaughter and possibly even with murder, legal experts say. Dr. Conrad Murray’s Las Vegas country club mansion and his office, Global Cardiovascular Associates, …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Left-Wing Law President Bush’s appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, produced a lot of squawking from the mainstream media about the ominous, rightward drift of the Supreme Court. But don’t get the wrong impression. The New York Times reported last …

So just as the other networks predicted, the April 15 tea parties were nothing but cauldrons brimming with rage. Rage against Obama, rage against the government, rage against these tough times. Take a look for yourself: (BEGIN VIDEO TAPE) ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTER: Go back to the oven! You need a big …

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Afghan guards armed with AK-47s keep watch just outside as a village elder sits in a room with no electricity and tells a U.S. Marine: “The Taliban are recruiting young unemployed men to plant IEDs and fight the American military.” Cpl. Adam King sits down, sips …

Just days after the death of the great Jack Kemp, Arlen Specter — the flesh and blood version of Montgomery Burns — tried to blame it on Republicans. He claimed that, “if we had pursued what President Nixon declared… as the war on cancer… Jack Kemp would be alive today.” …

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